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

"This is the true God, and eternal life." - I JOHN 5:20 [KJV]   O the blessedness, which eternity itself can never exhaust, of possessing eternal life! There is something to my mind so singularly blessed in the expression "eternal life," that I cannot help dwelling upon it. How the thought, the feeling of it expands the breast! Compared with it, how poor, mean, and low is our temporal life and all its concerns—the short span which God has allotted to us here below! And do observe how our eye is directed by holy John to the true God as being Himself eternal life. He is not only the Giver, the Spring, the Subject, the Object of it; He Himself is it all. O if He has but quickened our souls by His Spirit and grace, we carry now, even now, eternal life in our breast! for this eternal life is the precious fruit on earth of that eternal life in heaven which was with the Father and was manifested unto us [I JOHN 1:2 ] .   But how shall we know that w...

“Now once in the end of the world has He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself ” (Hebrews 9:26). What does it mean to put away sin? We can learn much about this from the Feast of Unleavened Bread when the Israelites were commanded to put away all leaven out of their houses (Exodus 12:15;19). Leaven is usually a picture of sin and this ‘putting away’ was a thorough job. The cupboards and drawers were emptied and their floors were very carefully swept in case a crumb of leaven bread should remain (see also Exodus 13:3-16; Leviticus 23:6-8; Deuteronomy 16:8; John 6:51). In the New Testament, sin, not leaven, was put away by Jesus. He, as it were, cleaned house.  If it had been left to us to clean our houses, we would have missed some of our hidden sins.  We don’t realise how great a mountain of sin and lurking darkness we accumulated during our lifetime. Question: How did Jesus put away sin? Answer: “He appeared to put away sin by the sacri...