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

“ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” -J EREMIAH 17:9 [KJV]   Listening this week via the radio to a Knoxville pastor, he said, “I love Jesus Christ with all my heart”. Only the arrogance of free-will religion would lead a man to say such a foolish thing. At funerals, ministers say of the departed, “they had a good heart”. No, that was their worst part! Preachers tell the masses “open your heart to Jesus”. As one preacher said, “why would He want to be in that mess?” The prophet Jeremiah wasn’t a psychologist, psychiatrist, or even a counselor but he understood man enough to know the condition of the human heart. It was the state of man’s heart that led to the world-wide flood. “ And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually ” [GENESIS 6:5 ] . King Solomon, the “preacher” in Ecclesiastes said this, “ This is an evil among...

Grounded in the Gospel! D.G. Miles McKee Calvary assures us that the wrath which should have justly consumed us has fallen upon our Substitute (1 Thessalonians 1:10). Faith in Christ alone, therefore, rescues us from the bondage of having to perform to gain God’s acceptance and welcome. In Christ alone, faith sees and embraces the Father’s smile. Though faith is not our righteousness, it fastens us to the righteousness of Christ and sees, as the old-time preacher, Solomon Stoddard, saw that it is now safe for us to appear in heaven. Indeed, the only safe way to heaven is FAITH IN CHRIST. Faith grasps that our acceptance before God is in Christ alone and not in our faith. Faith in faith saves no one. Genuine, gospel faith knows this! Indeed, real faith grasps that our eternal standing in the ages to come depends, not upon anything in us, but upon the unchanging righteousness of Christ alone outside of us. When we are not grounded in the gospel, we quickly make the mistake of l...