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

Patient’s Name: Every Adamson. Test Results. Patient is totally depraved: 1. “From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; they have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment” (Isaiah 1:6) . 2. Head in its entirety is sick (Isaiah 1:5) . 3. Ears are deaf to the truth (Isaiah 35:5) . 4. Eyes are blind to the light (Isaiah 35:5) . 5. Throat is an open tomb (Romans 3:13) . 6. Tongue is like a razor speaking deceit   (Romans 3:13; Psalm 52:2) . 7. Lips have the poison of asps under them (Romans 3:13) . 8. Teeth are like swords devouring others (Proverb 3:13) . 9. Mouth is full of cursing and bitterness (Romans 3:14) . 10. Hands are defiled with blood (Isaiah 59:3) . 11. Fingers are defiled with iniquity (Isaiah 59:3) . 12. Feet are swift to shed blood (Romans 3:15) . 13. Heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked (Jer...

“I AM NOT HERE TO ENTERTAIN YOU...” Our late pastor John Mitchell was a faithful gospel preacher. But not all people like to hear gospel-preaching. This fact was very evident on a certain occasion when John was preaching. A hearer became increasingly agitated by the gospel John preached. He at last disrupted the service and audibly expressed his displeasure. John, without missing a beat, responded, “I am not here to entertain you on your way to hell.”       John, as usual, spoke rightly. Gospel preachers preach the gospel in season and out of season (II Timothy 4:2) and even when it is unseasonable to a hearer. They do not adapt their message to suit their hearers. Nor do they desire to entertain their hearers. Therefore: • If you invite a gospel preacher to preach, or if you go to hear a gospel preacher preach, expect to hear him preach the gospel. • If you want to be blessed on your way to heaven, listen to a gospel preacher. • If yo...

"And be found in Him."   - Philippians 3:9 [KJV]   What! the heavenly-inspired, holy, self-denied Paul, who had the richest experience of grace, manifold gifts of the Spirit, been caught up to the third heaven, and laboured more abundantly than all the apostles,—has he advanced no farther yet, than to have no other hope and desire than such a worthless sinner as I? What! had not he arrived at perfection? Had he no inherent righteousness, no graces of the Spirit, no holiness, no fruits of good works, no sincere obedience, no terms and conditions he had performed to look to, rely upon, and desire to be found in at the bar of God? No: but he had obtained precious faith in a precious Saviour.    Therefore, he looks out of himself, out of all that was wrought in and done by him—he passes it all by—he looks through it all to Jesus— he renounces it all in point of justification before God, and puts the issue of his eternal life and salvation upon being found in...

"I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me." - Jeremiah 32:40 [KJV]   As the fear of God springs up in a believing soul, and is maintained and kept alive by the influences which come out of Christ as a covenant Head, it produces, as its effects, an abiding in Him. We cannot depart from Him through the fear of God. It is therefore called "a fountain of life to depart from the snares of death." If a fountain of life, it must be fed out of Him who is the life; and as it departs from the snares of death, it cleaves more fully and closely to Him as these snares are broken to pieces and left behind.    If we examine the movements of godly fear in our hearts, we shall see that all its tendencies are toward life and the Source of life; toward hatred of sin and love of holiness; toward a desire after the enjoyment of heavenly realities, and a deadness to the things of time and sense; toward a knowledge of Christ in the manifestatio...

"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." -II Corinthians 11:3 [KJV]   And what is "the simplicity that is in Christ?" The apostle answers this question in another part of his writings, when he saith, "Christ is all, and in all." Now nothing can be more simple than this: "Christ is all ; " then it would be equal folly to seek for happiness in any thing but in Christ. And "Christ is in all ; " then it would be equal folly to seek for happiness in any thing but in Christ. So that if our minds are led away to seek a supply from any thing short of Christ, this is the same temptation that the devil played off upon our first parent, and succeeded. This indeed is the grand device of Satan: it is the master-piece of his subtilty.   This is what all carnal unawakened men fall into: to fancy somewhat that is left f...

"Matthew the publican." -Matthew 10:3 [KJV]   It ought not to be overlooked, in the account of this apostle of Jesus, that in the list given by the other evangelists, of our Lord's disciples, he is placed before Thomas; but in this, of his own, he places Thomas first. And whereas, after his call to the apostleship, the brethren, in making mention of him dropped his former occupation of a publican, yet Matthew himself still preserves it. Grace always humbles. The call of this man, the distinguishing nature of that grace, the effects, and blessedness of it, open some sweet thoughts for meditation, which, under divine teaching, cannot fall of being profitable to the saint, and encouraging to the sinner: and it will be well, my soul, for thee to exercise thine evening devotion upon it.   He was a publican; that is, a tax-gatherer for the Romans. Of such characters we cannot have a more lively idea, than from what our Lord Himself said of them. For when Jesus, in...