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

"Come and see." -John 1:39 [KJV] Thus replies the Lamb of God, to an inquiry after where He dwelt. How came these two disciples of John to make this inquiry? John had pointed them from himself, to Jesus, with Behold the Lamb of God . Just as though he had said, “Look at that dear man. Take special notice of Him. He has a whole world of sinners to save. He loved them from all eternity. He is come as an innocent, meek Lamb, to be slain as a sacrifice for them. And His precious blood taketh away all their sins."   You and I are poor miserable sinners. We have no object to look to, but that Lamb. Nothing can take away our sins; nothing can bring pardon to our hearts, peace to our consciences, and salvation to our souls, but His blood. Nothing can make us holy and happy here on earth, but, looking to, and living upon this Lamb of God. They believed this. No wonder then, that they followed Jesus, and asked Him, “Where dwellest Thou?”  He said, Come and see .  O w...

"Come, buy wine and milk, without money, and without price."   -Isaiah 55:1  [KJV] Surely, no man can plead poverty as an excuse for not buying, when the things sold are not only without money, but without even the proposals for money; not only without ready money, but without any money. Here is not even a price given. My soul, remember this. The poorer the wretch, the more welcome to this market. But what are the things sold? Both wine and milk. A blessed variety in the gospel feast—wine to cheer, and milk to nourish. Yes, blessed Jesus, Thy love is better than wine, and Thy salvation more healing than milk: Besides, it comes free, it comes pure, it comes in plenty. And it far, very far, exceeds the strongest wine, and the richest milk. For though wine may remove a temporary heaviness, yet was it never known to raise the dead; but Thy love, blessed Jesus, hath raised, and will keep alive for ever, sinners dead in trespasses and sins, and preserve the languishin...

"But we trusted that it had been He which should have redeemed Israel."   -Luke 24:21 [KJV] What a trial to their faith must the death of Jesus have been to His disciples and believing followers! When their Lord and Master died, their hopes, for the time at least, seem almost to have died with Him. And indeed to the eye of sense, truth, holiness, innocence, all fell crushed by the arm of violence as Jesus hung on the cross.  To the spectator there, all His miracles of love and mercy, His words of grace and truth, His holy, spotless life, His claims to be the Son of God, the promised Messiah, the Redeemer of Israel, with every promise and every prophecy concerning Him were all extinguished when, amidst the triumph of His foes, in pain, shame, and ignominy, he yielded up His breath. We now see that, by His blood-shedding and death, the blessed Lord wrought out redemption, finished the work which the Father gave Him to do, put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, r...