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

" Let’s read the word of God, and let’s be honest in our appraisal of the word of God. Let’s let God’s word sit in judgment on our doctrine instead of making our doctrine sit in judgment on God’s word. Most people know already what they believe and try to find the Scripture to prove it."   -preacher Henry Mahan, message entitled “Chosen to Salvation , ” 1974 A.D.

" He that is of God heareth God’s words." -John 8:47 [KJV] "...The one from the Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage.” -Galatians 4:24 [KJV] Some of God’s children are kept under bondage by them. They are taught to look on themselves only as servants, not sons of God, because they dare not say they know their sins are forgiven. This is a foolish, unscriptural distinction. St. Paul expressly declares, that every believer is a son of God: “Ye are ALL the children of God, by faith in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:26.) Can a man be a servant of God without faith? No: “without faith, it is impossible to please God.” (Hebrews 11:6.) Every one who hath faith in the Son of God, is a child of God: his sins are as surely forgiven, as that Christ died for sinners: he shall never come into eternal condemnation for them, no more than if he had never committed them. This is God’s word (see John 5:24.)   As many as receive Christ, that is, believe on His name, have t...

"The glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are one.” -John 17:22 [KJV] Those are sweet views of Jesus which point to our oneness and union with Him, by which alone we derive an interest in Him, and are made partakers both in His grace and glory. By virtue of this it is, that the glory the Father gave Jesus, as Mediator, all His people are interested in, and truly enjoy. For though like the heir of a kingdom, when an infant, the babe is unconscious of his dignity, yet is not the less entitled to his high birth and rank: so the seed of Jesus, while in this childhood of existence, though they do not live up to their high privileges through the weakness of their faith, yet their claim in Jesus is not the less. Jesus hath given them the glory of being brought within the covenant, the glory of redemption, the glory of the Holy Ghost's gifts and influences; and, in short, all the glory which a state of grace implies, and which is...

"But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, Who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord." -I Corinthians 1:30, 31 [KJV] Wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption . God has made Christ all these to His people. He has set Him up as their eternal Head, made Him the Bridegroom of their souls, that out of His fulness they may all receive. Then, just in proportion as they learn these two lessons— what they are, and what He is —they receive Him into their hearts actually what He is to them in the purpose of God. Am I a fool? Do I feel it and know it? Have I had painful experience of it, so that all my creature wisdom is turned into one mass of foolishness? Do I catch by the eye of faith a view of the risen Mediator, "Immanuel, God with us," and see what He is made of God to us? The moment my eye sees Him as "wisdom , " th...