"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

  Nothing in Faith that Saves! by D.G. Miles McKee   There is no saving quality in faith. It is nothing in and of itself. Yet, the scriptures clearly proclaim that we are justified by faith (Romans 3:28).  How is it possible that faith is nothing in and of itself, yet it saves multitudes?   Here’s how: Faith lays hold of Christ (1 Timothy 6:12a) and grasps that saving merit is found in Christ alone (Romans 3:24). Genuine faith understands that it is not because Christ is in us that we are saved, but rather salvation is ours because we are in Christ.  We are saved by the perfect accomplishments of the Lord Jesus 2000 years ago .   The summary of our faith is this: Christ Jesus is our Saviour; He is in heaven; He is our righteousness and right standing before God; He is our treasury of grace and mercy; He is on the throne of Omnipotence and at the same time, He is our ever-living High Priest (Hebrews 4:14, Ephesians 1:11; I Corinthians 1:30; Romans 3:21-26; Colossians 2:3

"... Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season (if need be) ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations." — 1 Peter 1:6 [KJV] Though a Christian be not always in a joyful frame, yet he has abundant cause to "rejoice always." Though many things may rob him of his frame, yet nothing can deprive him of the foundation of his comfort. Happy for us, this is permanent and abiding for ever: for it is founded in the love and truth of an unchangeable God. These disciples to whom the apostles wrote, "rejoiced greatly." Why? was it because they were perfectly delivered from a body of sin and death? that they were not like thee and me, O disciple, sinners? No; but the matter of their joy, the cause of their rejoicing was, their "election according to the foreknowledge of God the Father— sanctification by the Spirit—sprinkling of the blood of Jesus, being begotten to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus;" —and the assurance