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

Error is to be undauntedly withstood and sometimes the obviating of error demands plain speech. The words of rebuke may be sharper than a two-edged sword, and oft-times need be, but this does not mean he who gives the reprimand should be tactless and unconcerned about how it will affect the erring brother. The “like it or lump it” attitude manifests a haughty spirit and is antagonistic to the spirit of conciliation. “Let us not be desirous of vain glory ...” (Galatians 5:26). -preacher Oscar Mink , Contending for the Faith with a Right Motive

No Priest but Christ! by D G Miles McKee   Hebrews 7:25 “ Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them.”   A man in Southern India once asked a missionary to make him a promise. He explained how that, every day, he prayed for his own soul and asked the missionary if, when he, the Indian, died, the missionary would continue this practice for him. When the missionary asked why he would need to do that, the man replied that he was full of doubt and anxiety. He thought that, if this missionary would just pray for him every day, then surely God would let him into heaven and forgive his sins. How sad!   This poor man felt he needed someone to intercede for him.  He needed a priest … a go-between. And yes, the truth is the dear man did need a priest, an intercessor. But the only mediator who is effective in this business of salvation is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the...

1. Opponents of the Gospel are proponents of unscriptural doctrines – a fact readily observed in the beliefs of man-made sects; 2. Proponents of unscriptural doctrines defend them by misusing the Holy Scriptures – and thereby fulfill the Scripture saying untaught and unstable people pervert the Scriptures to their own destruction (II Peter 3:16) ; 3. Believers of the gospel are blessed by God to understand the Holy Scriptures and subjects in them, and to discern when others pervert them.   –preacher Daniel Parks

Who [not What – for the seven adversities hereafter enumerated are caused by Christ’s enemies] shall separate us from the love of Christ [Christ’s love to us]? ... [1]   shall tribulation [outward afflictions inflicted by the wicked], ... [2]   or distress [inward afflictions caused by outward afflictions], ... [3]   or persecution [ cruel treatment from the wicked ], ... [4]   or famine [ deprivation of food by the wicked ], ... [5]   or nakedness [ deprivation of other necessities by the wicked ], ... [6]   or peril [ danger of death from the wicked ], ... [7]   or sword [ death itself inflicted by the wicked – which is the climax of the preceding six, which are in ascending order]? ... As it is written [in Psalm 44:22] ‘For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.’ Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors [not merely conquerors, but glorious conquerors] through Him that loved...

" I will come again, and receive you unto Myself, that where I AM, there ye may be also." -John 14:3 [KJV] Our Lord spake these words to His disciples, who had faith in Him, and yet had troubled hearts. Is this your case? They are suited to all such. They are to strengthen the faith and comfort the hearts of disciples. O this coming again of Christ will be the crowning work of all! To whom? awful to think of!  The greatest part of the world believe nothing of Christ’s first coming, and care nothing about His second coming. It will be a dreadful coming to them. “I will come again.” A second coming implies a first. If Christ has come in the power of His Spirit to our hearts, so that we have seen His glory, and believed on Him, we shall look with pleasure, and long with joy, for His coming again.  This is a sure mark, that we shall receive a crown of righteousness, if we love the appearing of Christ (see II Timothy 4:8.) Now, to your hearts by faith: hereafter, ...

"He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness." -Deuteronomy 32:10 [KJV] My soul, behold in this view of Israel thy case and circumstances. Where did Jesus find thee, when He passed by and bade thee live, but cast out, loathsome in thy person, and perishing in nature? Remember then, it was Jesus found thee, and not thou Him.  And where wast thou born, and new-born, and nursed, and educated, and trained? Was it not in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness? Can any thing be better suited to represent thy state by nature? Is not the heart of man like the heath upon the desert, that knoweth not when good cometh? Is it not like the ground, dry, parched, and barren? And as a wilderness is a land not inhabited, full of perplexed paths and intricate ways, without food, without sustenance, and no springs of water; can any thing more strikingly resemble the whole of thy spiritual circumstances, when Jesus called thee from darkness to lig...

“Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree,” -I Peter 2:24 [KJV] We beg the Lord, sometimes, to give us a broken heart, a contrite spirit, a tender conscience, and a humble mind; but it is only a view by faith of what the gracious Redeemer endured upon the cross, when He bare our sins in His own body with all their weight and pressure, and with all the anger of God due to them that can really melt a heart, and break a stony heart.  No sight, short of this, can make sin felt to be hateful; bring tears of Godly sorrow out of the eyes, sobs of true repentance out of the breast, and the deepest, humblest confessions before God what dreadful sinners and base backsliders we have been before the eyes of His infinite Purity, Majesty, and Holiness. Oh, what hope is there for our guilty souls; what refuge from the wrath of God so justly our due; what shelter from the curse of a fiery law, except it be in the cross of Jesus? O for a view of Him revealed to the eye...