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

 "For the time will come that they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears..." -II Timothy 4:3 [KJV] There are but two schemes of religion in this world. One is true the other is false. One is saving the other is damning. These two schemes of religion are free grace and 'free will.' Free grace declares that salvation is the work of God alone (Jonah 2:9) .    'Free will' declares that salvation is, at least in part, the work of man. Free grace declares that salvation is conditioned upon the obedience of Christ alone as the sinner's Substitute (II Corinthians 5:21) . Free will declares that salvation is ultimately and finally conditioned upon the obedience of the sinner himself.    Any doctrine that makes salvation, eternal life, acceptance with God, and the reward of the heavenly inheritance to be dependent upon, or determined by you, at any point or in any measure, is...

The vital thing to understand about the blood of Christ is this: IT IS ENOUGH! As it written, "It is finished" (Jesus shouted heartily from His cross: John 19:30, KJV.) Nothing else is needed to accomplish the salvation of all for whom His blood was shed.   Not His blood plus my works…   Not His blood plus my “decision”…   Not His blood plus the ordinances…   Not His blood plus church membership…   Not even His blood plus my faith…His blood purchased my faith.   HIS BLOOD ALONE paid the price required by His justice, and His blood alone can make a sinner clean.     “By His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having OBTAINED (not made possible) eternal redemption for us” (Hebrews 9:12).   -copied 

"Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King." - Psalm 98:4-6 [KJV]   AN OUTLINE WORTH REPEATING - Psalm 23   The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want-‑   1. For REST - " He maketh me to lie down in green pastures."   2. For PEACE - " He leadeth me beside still waters ."   3. For FORGIVENESS - " He restoreth my soul ."   4. For HOLINESS - " He leads me in the paths of right­eousness for His name's sake ."   5. For FELLOWSHIP - " For Thou art with me ."   6. For COMFORT - " Thy rod and Thy staff they com­fort me ."   7. For PROVISIONS - " Thou preparest a table before me ."   8. For ANYTHING IN THIS WORLD - " Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life."   9. O...

"Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man who layeth hold on it."   - Isaiah 56:2 [KJV] Many poor blind sinners we meet with, who are saying, Do not puzzle me with your points of doctrine. This is my religion, ‘I do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with my God.’ There is scarcely a text in the whole Bible so often quoted, and so frequently hackneyed by ignorant men, to keep up their vain hopes and self-righteous confidence, as this of Micah (-6:8.) As a striking instance of their walking humbly with God, they reject the glorious gospel of His grace, set at nought the atonement and righteousness of His Son, ridicule the inspiration of His Spirit, and walk in the pride of their hearts, fulfilling the lusts of their flesh. They are cursed by the mouth of the Lord. But here is the only blessed man described by him.    (1st.) In his doing. What? Justice? He has a sincere regard to every thing which is moral, just, and good. Without this, know, y...

"Wherefore, the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD..." -I Kings 12:15 [KJV] What a light doth this one verse throw upon the whole of this history, and upon ten thousand of a similar kind, which are perpetually going on through life! The event recorded in this chapter that the king should listen to the counsel of fools, and disregard the advice of wise men, would have appeared incredible, the thing itself being so very obvious. But when we understand the latent cause, and are told that it was "from the LORD," how strikingly doth it set forth the wonderful government of God in bringing about the sacred purposes of His holy will! My soul, sit down this evening, and ponder well the subject. Think how truly blessed it is, and how truly sanctified, to behold this almighty hand in every dispensation. And bring home the doctrine itself, for it is a very blessed one, if well studied and well followed up, to thine own concerns a...

"I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight." -Isaiah 42:16 [KJV] What is the mind of man—of any man—of your mind, my mind, under affliction? Let him be tried with pain of body, poverty of circumstances, sickness in his family, guilt of conscience, hard bondage in his own soul, without any beam of divine light upon his path, and what is he? A murmuring, rebellious wretch, without a grain of resignation, without a particle of contentment or submission to the will of God. But let the glory of the Lord be revealed; let him have a view by faith of a suffering Jesus; let some ray of light shine upon his path; let there be some breaking in of the exceeding weight of glory that is to be manifested at Christ's appearing; where are all his crooked things now?  All made straight. But how? By his crooked will—crooked because it did not lie level with the Lord's—being made to harmonise with the promise and precept, the footsteps and example o...