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

"A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity." -P ROVERBS 17:17 [KJV]   If I may use the expression, we want not a dead but a living, not an absent but a present, not a once but a now Jesus; we want a friend at the right hand of God at the present moment; an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent and yet pitiful and loving Mediator between God and us; an interceding High Priest, Surety, and Representative in our nature in the courts of heaven, Who can shew mercy and compassion to us now upon earth: "Whose heart is made of tenderness, Whose bowels melt with love." Our wants make us feel this. Our sins and sorrows give us perpetual errands to the throne. This vale of tears is ever before our eyes, and thorns and briars are perpetually springing up in it that rend and tear our flesh. We want a real friend. Have you not sometimes tossed to and fro upon your weary couch, and almost cried aloud, "O that I had a friend!" You ...

Most would agree that Jesus of Nazareth was a good man, but that does not set forth the full truth about Him. He was not merely a good man, but the only good man who has ever lived for He is the Son of God incarnate. None but God is good - Jesus Christ is God; none but man could suffer, bleed and die - Jesus Christ is man. He alone was qualified to endure the law’s curse and save His people from their sins. There are many who do not curse His Name nor say harsh things about Him. They do, however, have inferior thoughts of His person and work, refuse to look to Him for righteousness and seek to establish their own righteousness by their efforts. Though they speak of His goodness, they fall woefully short of truly honoring Him and giving Him the worship He has earned by His successful substitutionary atonement upon the cross. He is the Son of God and the Son of Man w hose obedience unto death satisfied divine justice and enabled God to be the just Savior of every sinner in wh...

"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when H e shall appear, we shall be like H im; for we shall see H im as H e is ." - I J OHN 3:2 [KJV]   What Christ is to the Church, what the Church is to Christ, can never be really known till time gives place to eternity, faith to sight, and hope to enjoyment. Nor even then, however beyond all present conception the powers and faculties of the glorified souls and bodies of the saints may be expanded, however conformed to the glorious image of Christ, or however ravished with the discoveries of His glory and the sight of Him as He is in one unclouded day,—no, not even then, will the utmost stretch of creature love, or highest refinement of creature intellect, wholly embrace or fully comprehend that love of Christ, which, as in time so in eternity, "passeth knowledge," as being in itself essentially incomprehensible, because infinite and divine. Who ...