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

"For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise." -II Corinthians 10:12 [KJV] In reference to the false preachers and their followers who judged or measured themselves by themselves, the Apostle Paul declared that they “are not wise.” A more literal translation would be that they were “without understanding.” What understanding do they lack? Paul spelled this out for us in his letter to the Romans as he wrote concerning his fellow kinsmen saying, “For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, ( they are religious ) but not according to knowledge” (Rom ans 10:2) . They were without understanding. What is the understanding or knowledge they lacked? “For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness o...

"A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee ." -Psalm 91:7 [KJV] When Noah was shut up in the ark, Noah and the favoured few, you know how they were tossed about, the rains coming down from heaven, the waters rushing and dashing below. The windows of heaven were opened and the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and while they were thus dashed upon the waters, not a drop came in unto them that were within. "It shall not come nigh thee." So you see the believer may be surrounded with troubles, and yet it shall not come nigh him. And there is something more in the expression used in reference to the making of the ark: "And shalt pitch it within and without with pitch" ( Genesis 6:14 ). Now, it is a most remarkable fact that the word pitch in Hebrew (the word is Gopher) signifies also atonement. Now see, the slime or pitch with which the ark was daubed within and without kep...