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

     It cannot be that any person is serious about being saved who has not found out, by the revelation of the Spirit, that they are lost in sin and desperately wicked in the heart.  None will come to Christ until the Lord reveals that they need the blessed Savior.  Hear the Master’s words.  “They that are whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance”   (Mark 2:17) .   Who will come to Christ for cleansing except those who have discovered that they are filthy?  Who will draw near to the Great High Priest for acceptance before God except those who have been taught that “by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in His sight?”   Who will approach the “one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus” except those who have learned that they are alienated from God?   Who will draw near to Christ to be saved by His blood and r...

O what a wonder to my soul,   ‘Tis love beyond degree; In matchless, free and sovereign grace, The Lord remembers me.   The Father chose me for His own, In old eternity; And when He gave me to His Son, The Lord remembered me.   In time the Son of God came down, ‘Twas by divine decree; He came to save me from my sin, The Lord remembered me. Christ satisfied God’s holy law, And died on Calvary; My guilt and shame He took away, For He remembered me.   I praise the Spirit of the Lord, Who came so graciously; And gave me faith to trust the Son, For He remembered me. O Lord I am a sinner vile, But Thy rich grace is free;  So look on Christ my Righteousness, And then remember me.   As through this life I travel on, Each day my prayer shall be; Show mercy on my sinful soul, Dear Lord, remember me. And when I close my eyes in death, To face eternity; Be pleased almighty Savior then      To still remember me.   -lyrics by preacher Jim By...

" A church is called the house of God, a spiritual house, built up of lively stones, living saints; but these be they ever so lively and living, they do not form a church, unless they are builded together,  for an habitation of God." -preacher John Gill, A Body of Divinity , p.856

" And the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God." -Ephesians 6:17 [KJV] Soldiers of Christ, all hail! Happy ye, Christ is your whole armour.  (1st.) Christ Who is the truth, is the strength of your loins: His righteousness is your breast-plate of defence.  (2d.) He is the sum and substance of the gospel of peace, whereby our feet are shod to march against the enemy.  (3d.) The Author and Object of faith. Our shield, to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.  (4th.) Our helmet of hope. Thus, by the grace of the Spirit, put Him on as your armour. Then, what dangers may you not face? What enemies have you to fear?  But forget not your sword. Though but just entered the field, you must know the use of it, and necessity for it. It is offensive to your enemy. Defensive of yourself. What a poor figure would a soldier cut in the field of battle without his sword? Just so would you, without the sword of the Spirit: called the word of God....

"A certain Samaritan." -Luke 10:33 [KJV] Look, my soul, beyond the letter of the parable, and see if thou canst not instantly discover who it is that is here meant. Mark how he is described: "A certain Samaritan." Not any indifferent undetermined one among the whole mass of men called Samaritans, but an identical certain one: and who but Jesus answers to this character? "Said we not well, (said the Jews) that thou art a Samaritan?"   Yes, truly, thus far ye said right; for our Jesus is the true Samaritan, that came a blissful stranger from His blessed abode, to deliver us from our lost estate, for His mercy endureth for ever. And, my soul, observe how exactly corresponding to all that is said of this certain Samaritan in the parable, thy Jesus proves to have been. Our nature, universally speaking, was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when it fell among thieves, and when it was left more than half dead by the great enemy of souls; for ...

“And they shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” -Matthew 1:23 [KJV] We must never, even in thought, separate the human nature of our adorable Redeemer from His divine. Even when His sacred body lay in the grave, and was thus for a small space of time severed from His pure and holy soul by death and the tomb, there was no separation of the two natures, for His human soul, after He had once become incarnate in the womb of the virgin, never was parted from His Deity, but went into paradise in indissoluble union with it. It is a fundamental article of our most holy faith that the human nature of the Lord Jesus Christ had no existence independent of His divine. In the virgin’s womb, in the lowly manger, in the lonely wilderness, on the holy mount of transfiguration, in the gloomy garden of Gethsemane, in Pilate’s judgment hall, on the cross, and in the tomb, Jesus was still Immanuel, God with us . And so ineffably close and intimate is the co...