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

"O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock." -Song of Solomon 2:14 [KJV] JESUS is the hiding-place, the only hiding-place from sin and self. "Thou art my hiding-place" said David of old. This was shewn to Moses, in figure, when the Lord put him into the cleft of a rock, which Toplady has so beautifully versified, to paint the longing desires of his soul: "Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee!" It is on this "Rock of Ages" that God has built His Church. As a rock, He is deep as well as high—so deep as to have under-bottomed the depths of the fall, so high as to be God's fellow, seated at His right hand. As a rock, too, He is broad as well as long—broad enough to bear millions of living stones built on Him, and long enough to reach from eternity to eternity. The Apostle, therefore, prays that the Church at Ephesus may comprehend with all saints, "what is the breadth and length, and dept...

“ Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory, even us, whom He hath called , not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?” -Romans 9:21-24 [KJV] Men sometimes tell us that they just don’t understand what we mean by divine sovereignty. I disagree; I believe most have a very good understanding, they just don’t like what it signifies. Divine sovereignty clearly denotes that the Lord does what He will with His own. The root word is “reign.” God reigns – that’s what divine sovereignty means. He reigns in creation, in providence and in grace. The Lord declared, “My counsel s hall stand, and I WILL DO ALL MY PLEASURE” (Isaiah 46:10). ...