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

"But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul." -H EBREWS 10:39 [KJV]   The Scriptures have brought certain marks not only to test, but also to comfort God's people. But in order to keep them tremblingly alive to the fear of being deceived; in order to set up an effectual beacon lest their vessel should run upon the rocks, the blessed Spirit has revealed such passages as we find in the sixth and tenth chapters of the Hebrews. They seem set up by the Spirit of God as a light-house at the entrance of a harbour. Is it not so naturally? Some shoal or sand-bank often lies near the entrance of a port, which the mariner has to guard against. How is he guarded? A light-house is erected on or near the spot, which warns him of the shoal. Now I look on the sixth and tenth chapters of the Epistle to the Hebrews as two light-houses standing near the entrance of the harbour of eternal safety. And their language i...

  “And ye are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality and power : ” - COLOSSIANS 2:10 [KJV] Here before us in our text we have Paul, by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, telling the Colossian believers and we who believe, almost 2,000 years later, that the believer in Christ is complete in Him. Paul here in this Epistle is battling Gnosticism, Judaizers and angel worship. There was a three prong attack occurring at the time of this writing against the believers in Colosse. Paul here lays a death blow to them all by telling the Colossian believers that they are complete in Christ! All through this Epistle, Paul has been contrasting the Supremacy of Christ and the all sufficiency of Christ with the things the false teachers were teaching; that you had to keep the Mosaic law, you had to be circumcised to be saved, that you must keep certain days and abstain from certain drink and food. Paul again lays a death blow to these errors the false teacher...

“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and forever.” -H EBREWS 13:8 [KJV] I am so thankful that as I grow older and things change, inside and out, that there is One who never changes. 1. His love never changes with time , for He loved me with an everlasting love that knows no change. 2. His power never changes . He is just as able to keep me from falling today as when I first began. 3. His Word never changes : “God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it? o r hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?” [NUMBERS 23:19 ] . Has He not magnified His Word above His Name? 4. His election of me shall never change . He will never cast off those whom He has chosen, for they will never do anything that He did not know about and has not already taken care of. 5. The power of His blood shall never change . It still cleanses from all sin. No matter how deep the stain has gone, His bl...