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

What a Magnificent Name , Part I by DG Miles McKee   The Lord Jesus Christ!  ---What a magnificent name.    When we call our Master the Lord, we are declaring He is the Sovereign.   When we call Him Jesus, we are declaring He is the Savior.   When we call Him Christ, we are declaring that He is the Sufficient One.   He is Sovereign, Savior and Sufficient. What a marvelous combination of saving power and wisdom.   To say that someone is ‘LORD’ is to admit that they are the one in charge.   Jesus continually demonstrated His Lordship and sovereignty over all things thus proving continually that He was and is God.     He was Lord over all nature and with a single word calmed a storm.     He demonstrated that He was Lord over death by raising the dead.   He demonstrated His sovereignty over Satan each time He cast out demons.   Sovereignty is God’s domain! Is it any wonder then that Jesus gave a continual demonstrati...

"Nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine."  -I Timothy 4:6 [KJV] Many a soul is saying, Alas! I hear and hear again, and do not see that I am profited. I obtain little or no comfort from what I hear.  Consider, (1st.) what you hear. Is it the words of faith, and of good doctrine? There is more danger in words than we are aware of. Words convey corrupt ideas to the mind, and nourish vain hopes and false confidences in the heart. They subvert the promises, and pervert the soul. Many words of this sort have obtained amongst us. Such as the merit of works—perhaps you start at that. You would not hear preachers who use the phrase. But these amount to just the same thing, the terms of the gospel—the conditions of salvation. These are not the words of faith, nor of good doctrine; not the words which the Holy Ghost teaches. They are the words of man’s proud wisdom.  They were hatched in the church of Rome, and are contended for by the greatest enemies...

"Whether our brethren be inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ."   -II Corinthians 8:23 [KJV] What a blessed account is here given of the children of God to all inquiries concerning them. See, my soul, whether thy experience corresponds to it, and mark their character. They are not only brethren to one another, but to Christ also; for we are told that He is not ashamed to call them brethren . Precious condescending, Saviour! Moreover, they are the messengers of the churches. What is that? A messenger, in scripture, is called also an angel. And if the brethren of Jesus do know, and can speak of Him as His people should, then are they like angels come down from the court of heaven, to relate what they have seen and known, of the King in His beauty, and their hearts glow with a warmth of earnestness to proclaim His glory, and His love to poor sinful creatures here below.  Neither is this all. For they are the glory of Chri...

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." -I John 1:9 [KJV] “He is faithful and just.”  Oh, what a word is that! There is scarcely to my mind such a word in the Bible as that; so great, so glorious, so comforting: “He is faithful and just.”  “Just” say you, “why I know that God’s mercy and God’s grace can pardon sinners; but how can God be just, and pardon transgressors? Does not God’s justice demand the punishment of sin? Does not God's justice blaze forth in eternal lightnings against the soul that transgresses His holy law? How, then, can it be true, that God can be just, and yet forgive a confessing sinner?" But it is true, divinely True, blessedly, eternally true. And in it is locked up that grand mystery of redemption by the blood and obedience of God's co-equal Son. It is locked up in this one word—"just." "But how?" it may be asked. In this way. The Lor...