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

Glory to God the Father’s name, Who, from our sinful race, Chose out His people to proclaim The honors of His grace. Glory to God the Son be paid, Who dwelt in humble clay, And, to redeem us from the dead, Gave His own life away. Glory to God the Spirit give, From whose almighty power Our souls their heavenly birth derive, And bless the happy hour. Glory to God that reigns above, The eternal Three in One, Who by the wonders of His grace Makes His salvation known. -Gospel hymn, 'O For A Thousand Tongues'    -------0-------      "The true Christian has enough to make him genuinely happy! All of his sins are forgiven and forgotten. He is adopted into God's family. His person is justified before God. He is clothed in the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ. He is a child of God. He is regenerated by the Holy Spirit. He has the Spirit of adoption in his heart. He is at peace with God, and God is at peace with him."  -copied 

"And because ye are sons, GOD hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father."   -Galatians 4:6 [KJV] It is the peculiar glory of gospel grace, that sinners are made sons of God. Here is the joyful knowledge of it, by the Spirit. Here is the precious boldness of children to God, my Father. The glory of the whole Trinity is in this verse, Lord help us to consider—the Spirit—His cry—and where He cries.    (1st.) The Spirit. Mind, He is called the Spirit of Christ, the Son of God. For He comes to us from Christ, His office is to testify of Christ, to glorify Him; for He takes of the things of Christ, and shews them to us (John 16:14.) He convinces us of sin: our want (- need ) of righteousness: gives us a right judgment of Christ, and His work for our salvation: leads us to Christ, begets us to a lively hope in Him, and becomes to our souls, a spirit of adoption, because we are the sons of God, by faith in Christ.    Then,...

"But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour." -Hebrews 2:9 [KJV] Mark, my soul, the very sweet and peculiar manner in which God the Holy Ghost here speaks of Jesus. He was "made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death." Yes! a body, such as ours, was given Him, for the express purpose of suffering. Our nature, by reason of sin, required a sacrifice for sin. It behoved Him, therefore, to be in all things like unto His brethren. But when He had made His soul an offering for sin, He for ever sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. To none of the angels was it ever said, "Sit Thou on my right hand until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool."     Now ponder these blessed things, and then say, whether thou hast so seen Jesus? If so, thou hast seen thy nature, in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, not only exalted above all principality and ...

"And what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places." -Ephesians 1:19, 20 [KJV] It is no great mystery that the Son of God should be exalted to the throne of power. It is but a step from the bosom of the Father to His right hand. But that one in our nature should be exalted to that seat of pre-eminence and power; that the Mediator between God and man should be the man Christ Jesus; that the hands which once were nailed to the cross should now hold the sceptre, and that the feet which once walked on Lake Gennesaret, which were weary and dust-soiled at Jacob's well, which were washed with a sinful woman's tears and kissed in penitential grief and love with polluted lips—that these very feet should now have all things put under them both in heaven and earth, there is the m...

     The Word of God commands and encourages all true children of God to be faithful and true to Him as we rest in and follow Christ and His Word – “Moreover it is required in stewards (-believers, true servants of the Lord) , that a man be found faithful” (I Corinthians 4:2) . It tells us that our faithfulness is a gift of the Holy Spirit and the working of God’s grace and power within us – “Being confident of  this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ , ” (Philippians 1:6) . This shows us that the ground of our assurance of salvation and continuing unto final glory is not our faithfulness but HIS faithful to keep His promises given us in and by Christ Jesus. We are totally dependent upon the glorious truth that God promised in the everlasting  covenant grace to save all whom He has chosen to save and given to Christ – “All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me; and him that cometh to Me I...

     "Where a sincere love to Christ is in the heart, there will be obedience; "If a man love Me indeed, that love will be such a commanding and constraining principle in him, that, no question, he will keep My words."   Where there is true love to Christ, there is a value for His favor, a veneration for His authority, and an entire surrender of the whole man to His conduct and government.  Where love is, duty follows of course, is easy and natural, and flows from a principle of gratitude." -preacher Matthew Henry (1662-1714 A.D.)