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

The last book in the Holy Scriptures, The Revelation of Jesus Christ, identifies three agents employed by Satan in his warfare against the church of Jesus Christ.      First is The Beast Out of the Sea [REVELATION 13:1-10 ] . It represents anti-Christian government . This beast is active wherever governments are trying to eradicate churches of Christ.      Second is The Beast Out of the Earth [REVELATION 13:11-18 ] . It represents anti-Christian persecution . This second beast is active not only where first beast is active but also in other parts of the world.      Third is Babylon The Great, The Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth [REVELATION chs.17f ] . She represents anti-Christian seduction . This Babylon is active wherever you see false religion seducing people away from God and His Christ. She seduces people with a counterfeit Christianity, one that is contrary to Christ but attractive to...

N O TRUTH SHINES WITH CLEARER LUSTER IN THE BIBLE than that SALVATION , from first to last, IS OF GOD .   God is sovereign in salvation! He often selects the poorest, the vilest, the most depraved, the most fallen, as if utterly to explode all idea of human merit, and to reflect the free grace of His heart in its richest luster. O precious truth! It stains the pride of human merit! It lays the axe at the root of self! It humbles and abases! It empties and lays low! It ascribes all the praise, honor and glory, might, majesty and dominion, of the new creation in the soul, to the Triune God! No worthiness of the creature allures Him to the sinner's heart. What worthiness can be supposed to exist: what merit can there be in a guilty criminal, an outlawed rebel, a poor insolvent, one whose mind is enmity, one whose heart is swelling with treason against God, His government, and His Son? One who owes millions, but has 'nothing to pay'? None whatever! And t...