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

"For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would." -G ALATIANS 5:17 [KJV]   The Holy Spirit is especially tender of H is own work upon the soul. He originally formed it; it is H is own spiritual offspring; and as a mother watches over her babe, so the blessed Spirit watches over the spirit of H is own creating. It is the counterpart of H imself, for it is the spirit that H e has raised up in the soul by H is own almighty power. He, therefore, acts upon it, breathes into it fresh life and power, and communicates grace out of the inexhaustible fulness of the Son of God, thus enabling the spirit to breathe and act, struggle and fight against the flesh, so that the latter cannot have all its own way, but must submit and yield. For the spirit can fight as well as the flesh; can act as well as the flesh; and can desire good as well as the flesh can des...

  "This is My blood of the new testament, which is shed for  many for the remission of sins"   -M ATTHEW 26:28 [KJV] If you believe, as many professors do today, that the Lord Jesus actually laid down His life to save every single person in the world, then you limit the death of Christ in its power to save. Why? Because, not all are delivered from guilt, and therefore it would make Christ’s death less than effectual. A ransom that does not redeem is no ransom at all. A propitiation that doesn’t actually satisfy, is no propitiation at all. The scriptures teach a ransom that is unlimited in its power to save, but limited in its design as to those God intended to save by it. In other words, His blood was shed 'for many for the remission of sins.' Christ died for MANY, a number that no man can number [ R EVELATION 7:9 ] . Yet, this many is limited to AS MANY as the Lord has ordained to believe [ A CTS 13:48 ] and AS MANY as the Lord God shall ca...

  “When a sinner is convinced of sin by the work of God's law on his conscience, he will generally be going about to establish a righteousness of his own. But when the Spirit of God brings him into bankruptcy, gives him to see his guilt, and causes him to feel its workings in his heart, then he wants to see Jesus who has redeemed him from it, and gone to the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. Faith traces Jesus in His pure and perfect life from the manger to the cross; but beholds nothing but fire and destruction in God's holy and righteous law. Heaven is well-pleased for His righteousness' sake; He has magnified the law, and made it honorable. The soul sees in the Lord Jesus Christ a justifying righteousness. This righteousness is imputed by God the Father to him; and the soul receives it by precious faith, and glorifies in the perfect obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ. The believer is complete and accepted in Jesus; and he s...