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

"But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light; for whatsoever doth make manifest is light." -E PHESIANS 5:13 [KJV] Feeling is the first evidence of supernatural life; a feeling compounded of two distinct sensations, one referring to God, and the other referring to self. The same ray of light has manifested two opposite things, "for that which maketh manifest is light;" and the sinner sees at one and the same moment God and self, justice and guilt, power and helplessness, a holy law and a broken commandment, eternity and time, the purity of the Creator and the filthiness of the creature. And these things he sees, not merely as declared in the Bible, but as revealed in himself as personal realities, involving all his happiness or all his misery in time and in eternity. Thus it is with him as though a new existence had been communicated, and as if for the first time he had found there was a God. One ray of supernatural light, penetrati...

Much has been done to try and portray God as simply a God of love without wrath. Modern religion frowns upon any talk of God hating sin, punishing the wicked or showing His wrath upon any. However, the God of the Bible has been and continues unchangeably to be “willing to shew His wrath” (R OMANS 9:22) . As a matter of fact, His “love” would be nothing special at all if it were not for His wrath. While every effort to erase any idea of a God of wrath from the minds of men has been made, the truth remains that the infinitely holy and just God has written this truth indelibly in the consciences of men. What is fear of death but fear of meeting the wrath of God? What is all the efforts of religious works but an attempt to appease Him? The idols of men for centuries have had scowls and frowns carved and cast on their faces revealing what men really know to be true in their hearts. Paul assures the believer who is declared righteous through the blood of Christ that he shall ne...