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

Call His Name Jesus by D G Miles McKee     “---thou shalt call His name Jesus for He shall save His people from their sins." - Matthew 1:21 [KJV]   This remarkable verse is both a promise and a prophesy. It is a prophesy because it was inseparably linked with Christ´s future work of saving His people.  It was and is a promise for all of us who are so ruined that we know we cannot save ourselves.  Listen again as the angel says, “ He shall save .” What a thrilling promise! He’s not going to try to save or to do His best to save … No!  He shall   save .  Think about it, since He saves, it makes abundant sense to abandon all our silly efforts to save ourselves!   Also, in this verse we see some excellent instruction on Christ’s deity. Notice how His parents were to “call His name Jesus.” This name is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew name Joshua which means “Yahweh, our Saviour.” Of course, the name Jesus was a common one in those d...

"He who endureth to the end shall be saved."   - Matthew 10:22 [KJV] We have now arrived to the end of another year. Look back with humility. Look up with hope. Look forward with joy. For consider what great things God hath done for us. “Now is our salvation nearer, than when we first believed , ” (Romans 13:11.) Salvation, O the joyful sound! But, before the Sun of righteousness arose upon us, and displayed the glory of His finished salvation to our hearts, alas! what dark, proud, ignorant notions of salvation, did we entertain? Instead of seeing righteousness as a gift by Jesus Christ, and justification of life coming by free gift, and eternal life the gift of God, through Jesus Christ, (Romans 5:17-18 & 6:23.)   We vainly thought that salvation was to be obtained by our fulfilling certain terms and conditions. In our natural state of blindness, before we saw Jesus, we thought, enduring to the end, was the condition of being saved. Now we see we are “Saved ...

"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them, The LORD bless thee, and keep thee. The LORD make His face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee. The LORD lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. And they shall put My name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them."   - Numbers 6:22, 27 [KJV] Pause, my soul, and in these sweet words behold thine almighty Aaron, even Jesus, in His everlasting priesthood, day by day, thus blessing His people. Observe, the blessing in the name of the Lord Jehovah is thrice pronounced, as if to teach the plurality of Persons in the Godhead. And observe also, after this blessing thrice pronounced, Jehovah, as if to intimate the unity of the divine essence, declares, I will bless them . My soul, mark each.  The first may be considered as the personal blessing of God the Father, whose gracious ...

"My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure." -Isaiah 46:10 [KJV] There is one grand idea running through the whole of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation; and this one grand idea runs through every part of the sacred page, and, like a golden band, unites the whole together. What is this one grand thought? God has many thoughts as well as we, for He tells us that "the thoughts of His heart stand to all generations."  But we read also in the same verse of "the counsel of the LORD, which standeth for ever;"  and elsewhere of His "working all things after the counsel of His own will"   (Psalm 33:11; Ephesians 1:11) . Thus in the mind of God, as well as in the mode of His subsistence, there is unity and variety. There is His one thought, and His many thoughts; for though His thoughts are many, His counsel is but one; and this counsel is the exaltation and glorification of His dear Son. It may be as well briefly to trace this...