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

“ For God, W ho commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. ” -II CORINTHIANS 4:6 [KJV] When a man is walking in the darkness and death of unregeneracy, he has no true light. He may indeed have a false light, as the light of presumption, delusion, or vain-confidence; but all such borrowed light is worse than darkness; as the Lord says, “If the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” The only saving light is THE LIGHT OF GOD SHINING INTO THE SOUL , giving us to see and know “the only true God, and Jesus Christ W hom H e hath sent.” A man may have the clearest light in his judgment, and yet never have the penetrating light of the Spirit producing conviction in his soul; he may have the soundest knowledge of the doctrines of grace, and see the harmonious scheme of salvation; and yet never have seen a holy God by divine teaching, nor have...

“ When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said, IT IS FINISHED : and He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost.” - J OHN 19:30 [KJV] When Christ died on the cross for the sins of His people, what exactly was finished (brought to its full and final completion and culmination)? Consider the following: (1) The whole will of God in regard to the ground of redemption (Heb. 10:7) . (2) The whole work His Father had given Him to do in saving His people (I Tim. 1:15) . (3) The Old Covenant law and all types and ceremonies (Heb. 10:9-14) (4) The righteousness of God performed, perfected, and which is imputed to believers (Rom. 3:19-24; Rom. 10:4; II Cor. 5:21) . The proof of the accomplishment of all that He came to do was His resurrection from the dead (Acts 17:31) . Salvation and eternal life is the gift of God, not of works on our part, but through the Person and work of our S ubstitute, the Lord Jesus Christ (Eph. 2:8-9; II Cor. 5:18-21) . As the h...