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

"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, T hou wilt not despise ." -Psalm 51:17 [KJV]   The heart that feels the burden of sin, that suffers under temptation, that groans beneath satan's fiery assaults, that bleeds under the wounds inflicted by committed evil, is broken and contrite. This brokenness of heart and contrition of spirit is a thing which a child of God alone can feel.   However hard his heart at times may seem to be, there will be reasons of spiritual reviving; however he may seem steeled against any sense of love and mercy, or even of misery and guilt, from time to time when he is least expecting and looking for it, there will be a breaking down of his soul before the Lord; there will be a bewailing of himself, a turning from the world to seek the Lord's favour, and a casting himself as a sinner once more on undeserved mercy, tears will flow down his cheeks, sighs burst from his bosom, and he w...

"Thy dead men shall live, together with My dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." -Isaiah 26:19 [KJV] When Jesus died on the cross, not as a private person, but as the public H ead of His church, then He paid the full debt of sin, and when He arose from the dead, the full release was given to our whole nature in Him. Jesus received the discharge; the bond He had entered into for His people was cancelled, and His resurrection became the proof of their’s also. But as the justification of all the persons of His redeemed is in Him, and by Him, so another sweet confidence is in Him also: Jesus is not only the cause of their being justified , but of their being glorified also. In these precious words we have, first, God the Father’s promise to His dear Son: "Thy dead men shall live" first in grace, and then in glory. How shall this be effecte...