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

-I SAIAH 42:4 [KJV] “We trust an undefeated and undefeatable Savior; “He shall not fail!” The Son of God can never be frustrated in His purpose, defeated in His design, or hindered in His work. Christ was not conquered at Calvary. He conquered . He did not die as the helpless victim of circumstances.    He died as the Lord of all things, the One who rules all circumstances. And He will not be defeated in the end; “He shall see of the travail of His soul and shall be satisfied” [ISAIAH 53:11] ! The cross of our Lord Jesus Christ shall never be discovered a miscarriage. The Lion of the tribe of Judah must prevail. The Word of God universally proclaims the infallible efficacy of Christ’s atonement.     That which the Son of God accomplished at Calvary was an effectual atonement for all the sins of God’s elect. The gospel of God is the revelation of the glorious, absolute, saving efficacy of Christ’s atonement. All for whom the Son of God suffered the w...

"O send out Thy light and Thy truth."   -Psalm 43:3 [KJV] "O send out Thy light." The Psalmist desired that light might be sent out, that is, that there might be a communication of it. The soul walking in darkness, and enabled under that darkness to pant and cry after light, is not satisfied with the conviction, however deep, that with God is light. The thirsty man is not satisfied with knowing that there is water in the well; nor the man who has lost his way in a mine, with knowing that there is light in the sun.  One faint ray gleaming through a chink were worth to him a thousand suns, blazing, unseen by him, in the sky. And thus the benighted saint cannot rest in the bare knowledge that "God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all , " but his sigh and cry is that this light may be sent out of the fulness of the Godhead into his soul, so as to shed abroad an inward light in his heart, whereby he may see the truth of God; whereby he may ...

"For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth." -Romans 9:11 [KJV] Grace – ‘All our blessing are in Christ, for God’s bestowal of grace takes no account of either our merits or demerits, but only of the excellency of His Son, else it would not be grace at all.’ -preacher R. Nelson Colyar , Expository Notes on the Book of Ephesians , p.17

"For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God." -Isaiah 54:6 [KJV] This was literally fulfilled, when Christ’s church was first gathered to Him in the days of His flesh. Scarcely were the disciples called and married to Christ, the loving Bridegroom, by faith, but He was taken away from them by a sudden and violent death. They were then like a woman, bereaved of her affectionate husband, who mourned and grieved for her great and affecting loss. They were then as a wife of youth, just married, and soon became as widows, whom the world refused and rejected.  But here lay all their comfort of faith, and joy of hope,—the Lord had called them, and He would never forsake them. Though death’s relentless arm snatched Christ from them, yet his power could not hold Him. By His own omnipotent power, Jesus raised Himself; and because of His everlasting love to them, He appeared again unto...

“Fear not; for they that be with us, are more than they that be with them." -II Kings 6:16 [KJV] My soul, never lose sight of this which was shewn to the prophet's servant in his fright. Though thou seest not, with bodily eyes, the mountain full of horses and chariots of fire in thy defence; yet with thy spiritual eyes, thou mayest see, infinitely beyond all this, as surrounding thee at all times and in all places, God thy Father, with all His divine attributes and perfections, all engaged, all made over, all pledged in covenant engagements, in Jesus, for thy defence, protection, comfort, security, and guiding thee in all things. There is more in that one assurance than in a thousand worlds, "I will be thy God" —and all in Jesus, yea and amen. Then, moreover, thou hast God thy Redeemer with thee, with all His fulness, all His grace, all His love - His whole heart, His whole soul thine. And thou hast God the Holy Ghost, with all His influences, gifts, te...

"A bruised reed shall He not break, and smoking flax shall He not quench, till He send forth judgment unto victory." -Matthew 12:20 [KJV] The gracious Man of Sorrows will never ever "break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax." It is true that "He sends forth judgment," for He means to bring the soul down into the dust; but whilst this judgment is going on, He secretly supports; for He kills that He may make alive; He brings down to the grave that He may bring up. But in sending forth this "judgment," it is "unto victory."   Conquest is at the end; victory is sure . There may be a long conflict; a hard and fearful battle, with the garments rolled in sweat and blood; but victory is sure at last; for He will never rest till He fully gains the day.  Oh, how Satan would triumph if any saint ever fell out of the embraces of the good Shepherd; if he could point his derisive finger up to heaven's gate and to its ris...