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

"But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth." -II Thessalonians 2:13 [KJV]   Some of the sweetest enjoyments in grace, are the freeness and undeserved nature of that grace towards the happy objects of its distinguishing favour: and as the first and ultimate design of all, for which grace is given, is the glory of Jehovah; so the promotion of that glory, in the redemption and sanctification of the church of Jesus, is the means and end. Now, my soul, sit down, this evening, and mark well, in the blessed effects wrought in thine own heart, what the apostle hath here said, that if thou art chosen, it must have been from the beginning thou art chosen to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth.    Pause, and ask thyself: art thou chosen? Hath this sovereign act of grace passed upon ...

"Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith." -Hebrews 12:2 [KJV] No one can ever run the race set before him, except by looking unto Jesus. He is at the head of the race; He stands at the goal; holding the crown of victory in His hand, which He puts upon the head of the successful runner. And we can only run on as we view Jesus by the eye of faith at the right hand of the Father opening His blessed arms to receive us into His own bosom at the end of the race.    Nor indeed can any one really look to Him but by the special gift and grace of God. He must be revealed to the soul by the power of God; we must behold His glorious Godhead and His suffering manhood by the eye of faith; and we must view Him as the incarnate God; the only Mediator between God and man. We must see the efficacy of His atoning blood to purge a guilty conscience; the blessedness of His obedience to justify a needy, naked soul; the sweetness of His dying love as an inward balm and cordial ag...

"I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day."   -Isaiah 27:3 [KJV]       The Lord Jesus Christ, who lives at God's right hand, has to send down supplies of His grace continually to keep your soul alive unto Himself. Without this life being kept up and maintained by these continual supplies of His grace, you cannot pray, or read, or hear the word, or meditate with any feeling or profit. You cannot love the Lord and His blessed ways; you cannot submit to His righteous dealings; or hear the rod and Him Who appointed it. You may approach His throne, but your heart is cold, clouded, and unfeeling; your spirit sinks under the weight and burden of the trials and difficulties that are spread in your path; nor are you able to do anything that satisfies yourself, or that you think can satisfy God. By these painful but profitable lessons, you are experimentally taught that you want ( -need ) the life of Christ a...

  NO OTHER ONE BUT JESUS   Tune:  “O for a Thousand Tongues” Words by Jim Byrd   O what a Savior Jesus is, How suited to our need; He died to save us from our sins, For so it was decreed.   No other One could rescue us, No other One could save; To cleanse us from our guilt and shame, His life He freely gave.   Who else but Jesus Christ alone, The law could satisfy; He died upon the bloody tree, Our souls to justify.   Who else but God the Father’s Son, For us could intercede? His Name alone prevails with God, No other Name we plead.   O may the blood and righteousness, Of Jesus ever be; Our only trust and confidence, Our only hope and plea.   -------O-------          “…Blessed be Thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.  Thou, even Thou, art LORD alone; Thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all t...

     Last time we asked, “...where are your sins?” The answer came “He Himself ( Jesus ) has purged them!” That means they are gone! Our sins and their filth have been effectively taken away, once for all! Look around you, where are your sins? —They don’t exist—they are purged—they have been, not merely forgiven, they have been paid for and put away by blood, the blood of the God/Man.  Because of the cross we have been rendered clean! So where are your sins? I’ll tell you where. God said, “I will cast all their sins behind My back”   (Isaiah 38:17). But where is that?   Spurgeon, with his usual clarity tells us where. He says  “It is nowhere, for God is everywhere present, seeing everything. So that is where my sins have gone; I speak with the utmost reverence when I say that they have gone where Jehovah Himself can never see them. Christ has so purged them that they have ceased to be.” Our sins are now done away with in Him.  Believe this ...

"My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad." -Psalm 34:2 [KJV]   There was a poor, vainglorious boaster, who had arrived to the summit of his happiness, and attained the zenith of his glory. The sun of prosperity shone with great splendour upon him. He bid adieu to all care. Down he sat to solace himself. “Soul!” said he, “thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease: eat, drink, and be merry.” But, awful moment! solemn speech! God said unto him, “Thou fool! this night thy soul shall be required of thee” (Luke 12:20.) O how many such fools are there, who think the soul can be made happy, in outward ease, eating and drinking, and carnal enjoyments. Alas! one moment dashes the honey of their comforts, into the gall of disappointment.    Not so, that soul who boasts in the Lord. This was not a transient fit of David’s, caused by a warm frame of the passions. For, says he, “I will bless the Lord at all times: His ...