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

The L ORD is in His holy temple. The L ORD is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence; let all the earth keep silence before Him. Keep silence, keep silence, before Him.

" If any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God on this behalf." -I Peter 4:16 [KJV] “The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch” (Acts 11:26.) It is a blessed name. We ought ever to glory in it, and never be ashamed of it. But the bare name will no more avail us in life, death, and judgment, than to be called rich, while we are feeling the pinching hand of want. Christ signifies anointed. He was anointed to be our Saviour (Acts 10:38.) All who are saved by Him, and come to Him, are His anointed ones. So St. John speaks of all Christ’s living members. “Ye have an unction from the Holy One” (I John 2:20.)   To anoint, is to consecrate and set apart for holy and spiritual purposes. Christians are consecrated and set apart from the rest of the world, to be a people peculiarly devoted to the glory of Jesus. They are the jewels which compose His mediatorial crown. Are you thus highly honoured by the Lord of life and g

" They shall take to them every man a lamb." -Exodus 12:3 [KJV] This was God’s appointed means of salvation, in a night of sore destruction. It was a display of the sovereignty of God, and the obedience of faith. Lord, enable us to bow to the one, and to learn more and more of the other.  Consider, (1st.) The sovereignty of God in His severity upon His enemies, and in His goodness to His people: in destroying all the first-born of the former, and in preserving every one of the latter. And this was in a way appointed by His sovereign mercy. There is no mercy from God to any sinner, but in the way He Himself appoints. This was a lamb. “They shall take to them every man a lamb.”   His flesh was to be their food, his blood their salvation. Would not taking the flesh and blood of any other creature have answered the same end? No: To attempt it would have been a direct act of unbelief of God’s word, and disobedience to His will. Such a soul would have brought upon him

" Those who believe that man in his depraved condition must make the first move to become a new creature are as heretical as those who embrace theistic evolution. This makes a blind, deaf, and helpless sinner arise to the place of letting the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and sovereign God make him a new creature." -preacher W. E. Best

What do you think of Christ? Part III by D.G. Miles McKee   “What think ye of Christ? is the test To try both your state and your scheme; You can­not be right in the rest, Unless you think right­ly of Him.”  -John Newton   In parts 1 and 2 we discovered that no one was ever born like Jesus, and no one ever lived like Jesus. This time we want to consider that no one ever worked like Jesus. In His work, Jesus continually demonstrated His sovereign power over all things.  For example, in Mark 4:39 He demonstrated His power over nature. Turning to the raging sea He commanded, “Peace be Still” and the wild, violent wind obeyed Him and the waves were strangely still.  After He rebuked the storm, the Word says that there was a great calm. That´s what Jesus brings in place of the storm... a great calm.  Hallelujah, He is well able to say a word and speak calm to the storms of our life. Jesus also demonstrated His power over demons.  In Mark 5 a demon possessed maniac came rushing