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

"Beloved, let us love one another: for love   is of God; and every one that loveth is born of  God, and knoweth God." - I JOHN 4:7 [KJV]   "Love is of God." I can have no satisfaction, real satisfaction, that I am a partaker of the Spirit and grace of Christ except I feel some measure of the love of God shed abroad in my heart. I may have hopes, expectations, and evidences, fainter or brighter; but I have no sure, clear evidence in my own soul that I have the Spirit and grace of Christ there, except I am blessed with the love of God; for until love comes, there is fear which hath torment. And whilst we have fear which hath torment, there is no being made perfect in love. You have no clear assurance in your own breast that God has loved you with an everlasting love; nor have you any bright testimony that the Spirit of God makes your body his temple until this love comes into your soul. But when the crowning blessing comes of the lov...

Moses besought the LORD with this desire… “Show me Thy glory” (E XODUS 33:18) . Without a doubt, Moses asked this as he was moved by the Holy Spirit, not only for Moses’ good, but for ours too. But that which especially enflames the heart of every regenerated sinner, as he considers this passage, is the glorious answer from the mouth and heart of Jehovah…that answer which reveals Christ to be God’s glory and goodness in the salvation of His people: “ I will make all My goodness pass before thee,” I will show Myself in Christ to be the Fountain of inexhaustible compassion, “and will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee,” making known that I AM, the LORD; “and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy” (EXODUS 33:19). It is the glory of the LORD to sovereignly save whomsoever He will, and therein, the vessels of His mercy truly rejoice . -Gospel report by preacher Marvin Stalnaker