SALVATION IS OF THE LORD!
If salvation were partly of God and partly of man, it would be like a house built partly on rock and partly on sand. The whole structure would soon fall. If our dependence were upon the Lord Jesus in a measure and on our own works to some degree, it would be a tower that would never reach the sky, doomed to failure from the start.
Oh to know the full meaning of the words, “Salvation is of the LORD” (Jonah 2:9). Taught by the Spirit, through the Word, in heart and experience is the only way to learn the full meaning of “Salvation is of the LORD.” A man will lie broken at the foot of a cliff, every bone dislocated by the fall, and yet still hope to save himself. Piles of sin, mountains of transgressions, and a landslide of iniquity may bury a man, but he will cling to the hope that he will finally dig his way out.
You may crush human nature and grind it to powder, but every particle of dust will reek with pride and self-righteousness. Only the Holy Spirit can make a man surrender, throw up his hands in helplessness, and cry, “SALVATION IS OF THE LORD”!
-Gospel
report by preacher Henry T. Mahan
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Gospel Sermon, “JESUS – Friend of Sinners” here:
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