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

"But my God shall supply all your need according to H is riches in glory by Christ Jesus." - PHILIPPIANS 4:19 [KJV] Oh! if there were no Christ Jesus, there could be no "supply." Howling in hell would our miserable souls be, unless there were a Mediator at the right hand of the Father; a blessed Jesus, full of love, pity, and power, co-equal and co-eternal in H is divine nature with the Father and the Holy Ghost, and yet the God-Man, in W hom "it hath pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell." If there were not such a blessed Mediator at the right hand of God, not one drop of spiritual comfort, not one particle of hope, not one drop of fruit of the Spirit to distinguish us from the damned in hell, would ever be our lot or portion. Oh! we should never forget the channel through which these mercies come; we should never, for one moment, think that they could come through any other Person or in any other way, than through God...

“ Pilate sai th un to them, W hat shall I do then with Jesus wh ich is called Christ? They all sa y unto him , Let H im be crucified .”   -M ATTHEW 27:22 [KJV] Pilate’s words are often morphed into, “What will you do with Jesus?” That is legitimate, for in asking the crowd what they wanted him to do with Jesus, he was asking what they would do with Him if they had the power and authority to carry it out. Many have used this version of Pilate’s words as a challenge to their audiences, “What will YOU do with Jesus?” But, we already know what Pilate and the people did with Jesus: they crucified Him. It would do us well to note that the man who asked the question was a proud and pompous man, willing to kill anyone who became a risk to his ability to gain and maintain power. And the people to whom the question was put were seething with hatred for Jesus, and in keeping with their hatred, they called for His death. And that is the way it always is when men...

  With broken heart and contrite sigh, A trembling sinner, Lord, I cry; Thy pard'ning grace is rich and free: O God, be merciful to me! I smite upon my troubled breast, With deep and conscious guilt oppressed; Christ and His cross my only plea: O God, be merciful to me! Far off I stand with tearful eyes, Nor dare uplift them to the skies; But Thou dost all my anguish see, O God, be merciful to me! With alms, or deeds that I have done, Not one sin's pardon can be won; To Christ and He alone I flee; O God, be merciful to me! And when redeemed from sin and hell, With all the ransomed throng I dwell, My raptured song shall ever be, God has been merciful to me! Author: Cornelius Elven Tune: Just As I Am (W. Bradbury)

"Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck." -I TIMOTHY 1:19 [KJV] We find that, in the Apostle's time, there were characters who held faith, or rather what they called faith, and put away "good conscience." He mentions by name, "Hymeneus and Alexander, whom he had delivered unto Satan," that is, excommunicated them out of the Church, as heretics and blasphemers. But if to have put good conscience away, stamps a man as unfit for the visible Church of God, it behoves us to search whether we have this weapon at our side, and in our hand. What does the Apostle, then, mean by "a good conscience?" I believe he means a conscience alive in God's fear, a spiritual conscience, a tender conscience, what he calls, in another part, "a pure conscience;" "holding faith in a pure conscience," that is, purified from ignorance, from guilt, from the power of sin, ...

“ C HRIST IS ALL ”   -COLOSSIANS 3:11 [KJV] Christianity is all centered in a person! Conversion is not a mere change of human opinion; it is the devotion of the heart to a person. A converted man is not a man who just changes his views concerning certain facts, or theories, or doctrines but he is a man whose heart has become devoted to a living Christ . All your religion, if it is worth anything will be centered in a living personal JESUS. Your doctrines will all come from Him; your motives will be found in Him; your joys will be found in Him; your acceptance will be found in Him; your completeness will be found in Him! “ And ye are complete in Him ” [ C OLOSSIANS 2:10 ] ! - Gospel report by preacher Archibald Brown, 1884 A.D.