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

"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the L ORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem." -I SAIAH 27:13 [KJV] Called by the sounding of the great trumpet, the perishing and outcasts "come." And what do they when they come? Do they trifle with sin, mock God, and abuse His grace? We read not so. They "worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem." They worship Him in spirit and in truth; they worship Him in the beauty of holiness. With purified hearts, purged consciences, and spiritual affections, they fall down before Him, and their souls are impressed with a sense of the greatness of His love. They had no such heavenly feelings before; they could not therefore worship the Three-One God in the holy mount nor at Jerusalem. The great trumpet had not been blown, the jubilee had not come,...

WE ARE TO VENTURE THE WHOLE SALVATION of our souls on Christ and on Christ only. We are to cast loose completely and entirely from all other hopes and trusts. We are not to rest partly on Christ and partly on doing all we can. In the matter of our justification, Christ is to be all. This is the doctrine of the Bible . Heaven is before us, and Christ is the only door into it; hell is beneath us, and Christ alone is able to deliver from it; the law is against us, and Christ alone is able to redeem us; sin weighing us down, and Christ alone is able to put it away. "T HERE IS NONE OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED” (ACTS 4:12) . There is no other person commissioned, sealed, and appointed by God the Father to be the Saviour of sinners excepting (but) Christ. The keys of life and death are committed to His hand, and all who would be saved must go to Him. There was but one place of safety in the day when the flood came upon the earth; that p...