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

"For T hou hast magnified T hy word above all T hy name." - PSALM 138:2 [KJV] This is one of those expressions in Scripture that seem so comprehensive, and yet so amazing. To my mind it is one of the most remarkable expressions in the whole book of God. "Thou hast magnified T hy word above all T hy name." The name of God includes all the perfections of God; everything that God is, and that God is revealed as possessing. His justice, majesty, holiness, greatness, and glory, and whatever He is in Himself; that is God's name. And yet He has magnified something above all His name; His word, His truth. This may refer to the Incarnate Word, the Son of God, Who is called the Word. "There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one" [I JOHN 5:7 ] . "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God" [JOHN 1:1 ] . You may take the words either as meaning that...

Ah! but for free and sovereign grace, I still had lived estranged from God, Till hell had proved the resting place Of my deserved, but dread abode. But O, amazed, I see the hand That stopped me in my wild career; A miracle of grace I stand; The Lord has taught my heart to fear. -Words by Henry Paice, 18th century

"Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah" - JEREMIAH 31:31-33 [KJV] The promises of the covenant of grace are sure, everlasting and ordered in all things to God's spiritual family [II SAMUEL 23:5; H EBREWS 7:22; R OMANS 4:16 ] . 1) . I will make and establish a new covenant; "I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah." This covenant is called new, not because it is newly conceived, but rather because it is newly revealed in the gospel of Christ . It is always new and fresh, it will never grow old nor give way to another [ H EBREWS 13:20 ] . It provides all things new; new spiritual life [JOHN 10:27-30 ] , new spiritual nature [II CORINTHIANS 5:17 ] , new spiritual heart [EZEKIEL 36:26 ] , new spiritual name [REVELATION 2:17 ] , new song of redemption in the heart [REVELATION 1:5 ] . All of this will enable us...