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

The Mighty God by D G Miles McKee At the Council of Chalcedon in A.D. 451 it was affirmed that Christ was one person with two natures.  Christ, they said, was fully God and fully man.  However, the teaching of Chalcedon on this matter was no 5 th  century invention. This was no “figment of a pious imagination”  for the mighty prophet Isaiah had already given the same key to understanding the mysterious constitution of the person of Christ.  Let’s look at what he says in Isaiah 9:6,   “Unto us a child is born.”   So, before we go any further, let me ask you, is a child a human?  Of course it is!  But Isaiah goes on to declare that this child is also,  “The Mighty God.”   This child is given the full title of Deity being called  ‘ El Gibbor ’ ,  the Mighty God. This is a name reserved for God alone for in Isaiah 10:20-21, we see that it is Yahweh Himself who is this 'El Gibbor'. "And it shall come to pass in tha...

Progressive Sanctification? ‘I’m getting better.’  ‘I’m getting more and more spiritual as I walk along.’   Where’d they get that from? Some preacher told them that.  They didn’t get it out of the Bible.  Either you are sanctified, set apart for the purpose of Christ or you are not.  You are either a believer in Christ or you are not.   There’s no half-way point. There is no mixing of spirits (meaning natures, the flesh and the spirit.) You are sanctified.  ... The Bible speaks of God’s people as being presently sanctified or set apart.  It is not a progressive system whereby we get BETTER. We’re either sanctified by the blood of Christ or we are not.  It is just that simple. -preacher David Hethhorn, ‘The Sin Principle and the Law of Christ, Pt. 2

"Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." -II Timothy 3:5 [KJV] St. Paul says, “The gospel is the power of God” (Romans 1:16,) and, “Christ is the power of God ; ” (I Corinthians 1:24) and, “that our faith standeth in the power of God” (I Corinthians 2:5.) Hence it is plain, that godliness is of a powerful nature upon the soul. It consists not in form and shadow, not in notion and speculation, but in the real enjoyment of Christ in the heart, and in an experimental knowledge of the grace of the gospel, through faith.  It is the grand concern of every living and lively member of Christ, to enjoy more of the light, life, liberty, and power of Christ and His gospel. While those who have only the form of godliness, are content in their heads—are clear in the notion of divine truths—if they can but see a harmony and consistency in the plan of salvation—give good account of the doctrines of grace—talk fluently about them, a...

"And every oblation of thy meat-offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thy offering thou shalt offer salt." -Leviticus 2:13 [KJV] Ponder over these words, my soul, and looking up for grace, and the divine teachings, see whether Jesus is not sweetly typified here. Was not Jesus the whole sum and substance of every offering under the law? The Holy Ghost taught the church this, when He said, "the law was a shadow of good things to come, but the body is of Christ." And did not the church, by faith, behold Him as the salt which seasoned and made savoury the whole?  Moreover, as all the sacrifices were wholly directed to typify Him who knew no sin, but became sin for His people; the seasoning the sacrifice with salt, which was also a type of Christ's purity and sinlessness, became a sweet representation, to denote that a sinner, when he came with...

"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh." -Ezekiel 36:26 [KJV] This "new spirit" is a broken spirit, a soft, tender spirit, and is therefore called "a heart of flesh," as opposed to "the heart of stone," the rocky, obdurate, unfeeling, impenitent heart of one dead in sin, or dead in a profession. And how is this soft, penitent heart communicated? I will put My Spirit within you.   The same divine truth is set forth in the gracious promise: "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications; and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn."   But what is the immediate effect of...