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

"Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breast-plate of righteousness."   - Ephesians 6:14 [KJV]   Soldiers of Christ! hear and obey the word of command: Stand. Against every enemy, stand to your arms: against all opposition from within and without, maintain your ground. Face all: fight all: conquer all. Does sin attack, Satan assault, the world threaten? Do corruptions rage, temptations beset, and carnal nature rebel? Are thine enemies many and potent? is their fury great? is the battle strong? Stand therefore. Why? Because you have put on the whole armour of God. Jesus is with you, upon you, over you, and engaged for you: therefore, “Stand fast in the Lord” (I Thessalonians 3:8.) “And in the power of His might: having your loins girt.”     Long standing makes the loins faint and weak. Is there much pain in the loins? Here is thy Lord’s command: “Gird up the loins of thy mind.” Make thy loins strong. “Fortify thy p...

"Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" -Romans 6:16 [KJV] There is a blessedness in obedience. It does not give us, but it manifests our interest in the finished work of the Son of God. There is nothing in the highest acts of faith or obedience that we can take any joy in as accomplished by us, nothing that we can boast of as our own; and yet there is a sacred blessedness in obeying the gospel by believing in the Son of God, by walking in the fear of God, and doing the things, as well as professing them, which are pleasing in God's sight. Walk in carnality, pride, and self-righteousness; live after worldly customs and conform yourself to worldly opinions, and if there be a grain of godly fear, or one spark of the life of God in your heart, you will do the best thing you can to bring your soul into misery and bondage.  Therefore, tho...

"When He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.” -II Thessalonians 1:10 [KJV] It is not in this world only, that God is glorified by His redeemed people. At the day of judgment, every saint will be a monument to God's glory! How God's sovereign grace will appear to every one among them, when each sees himself as a brand plucked out of the fire!  What stupendous wisdom will then be manifested in the wondrous plan whereby God has saved such undeserving, ill-deserving, Hell-deserving sinners! What marvelous patience will God be seen to have exercised towards them, under all their manifold failings and backslidings! What unbounded mercy will be seen in His pardoning their multiplied transgressions, and saving them from eternal Hell!  Nor will His omnipotence be less an object of admiration, when it is seen how wonderfully it has been exerted in converting thei...

Everything is done for God’s glory to the exclusion of man’s self-glorification and pride. This principle is founded upon truths such as these six: 1.  God will not share His glory (Isaiah 42:8): “I am Jehovah, that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to carved images” – even if they be images of Jesus, Mary, saints (see Exodus 20:3-5.) 2.  Angels give glory to God alone (Luke 2:14): At Jesus’ birth they exclaimed “Glory to God in the highest!” 3.  Christ’s church gives glory to God alone (Ephesians 3:20f): “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen” (see also Acts 10:25f.) 4.  All in heaven give glory to God alone (Revelation 19:1): “Alleluia! Salvation and glory and honor and power belong to the Lord our God!” 5.  Saints desire no glory from God...

"Our first postulate is that because God is God He does as He pleases, only as He pleases: that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory.  That He is the supreme Being, and therefore sovereign of the universe." -A. W. Pink

"Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand in the evil day, and having done all to stand."   - Ephesians 6:13 [KJV]   St. Paul was an experienced veteran in the camp of Christ. He had been in many campaigns: fought many battles under the Captain of his salvation, against the combined enemies, the world, the flesh, and the devil. He warns his fellow soldiers of their foes and dangers, by exhorting them to take, and put on, nothing less than the whole armour of God. The very same armour, which he himself fought in, is provided for us also. Blessed be God for that.    So sure as Paul fought his way through, and safely arrived in glory, so shall we also, in this armour of God. O Christian, consider, this is not an armour of flesh and blood—not what is natural to man, or is in the power of man to provide for himself; but the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of the whole earth, hath provided it for all Christ’s soldiers ...