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

“ And, behold, there was a certain man before H im which had the dropsy. And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? And they held their peace. And H e took him, and healed him, and let him go.” - LUKE 14:2-4 [KJV] Our testimony before the Lord is not what we have done for Him but rather what the Lord has done for us in infinite love, sovereign mercy and in saving grace [II TIMOTHY 1:9; T ITUS 3:5-7 ] . Every believer can identify with this diseased and dying man, the Lord in amazing grace took us to Himself, chose us in the eternal covenant of grace and made us His own [JOHN 6:37; E PHESIANS 1:3-6; II THESSALONIANS 2:13 ] . Not only is that true, but the Lord Jesus Christ also healed us, by taking all our spiritual diseases of our sin to Himself [PSALM 40:12; MATTHEW 8:16-17 ] , bearing our sin in His own body upon the tree [ISAIAH 53:4-6; I PETER 2:24 ] and “With His stripes we are hea...

"O send out T hy light and T hy truth." - PSALM 43:3 a [KJV] "O send out T hy light." The Psalmist desired that light might be sent out, that is, that there might be a communication of it. The soul walking in darkness, and enabled under that darkness to pant and cry after light, is not satisfied with the conviction, however deep, that with God is light. The thirsty man is not satisfied with knowing that there is water in the well; nor the man who has lost his way in a mine, with knowing that there is light in the sun. One faint ray gleaming through a chink were worth to him a thousand suns, blazing, unseen by him, in the sky. And thus the benighted saint cannot rest in the bare knowledge that "God is light, and in H im is no darkness at all , " but his sigh and cry is that this light may be sent out of the fulness of the Godhead into his soul, so as to shed abroad an inward light in his heart, whereby he may see the truth of G...

“ T HE GOSPEL OF GOD ... concerning H is Son, Jesus Christ our Lord” -R OMANS 1:1-3 [KJV] There was a time when I didn´t know that the gospel was all about Jesus. I thought that it was all about me,—what I should do, and what I should be. Many of us had similar ideas before grace opened our eyes to the truth. Before we were saved, we mistook the message of the gospel for the message of the law, thinking its chief purpose was to make us better-behaved people. A grand mistake indeed! But then, concerning God, the thinking of an unrenewed heart is always wrong. Saul of Tarsus thought that he should do many things contrary to the name of Jesus (Acts 26:9); but he was wrong. He soon discovered his mistake when the Lord suddenly and graciously converted him. We may as well expect a blind man to appreciate the Mona Lisa or a deaf man to enjoy Mozart, as suppose an unrenewed person can understand the gospel. This is a strong statement, but, nevertheless, it´...