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

“ For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” -R OMANS 5:6 [KJV] Christ did not die in order to make God love us, but because He did love His people. The cruel cross is the supreme demonstration of Divine love. Christian reader, whenever you are tempted to doubt the love of God for you, go back to Calvary! “But God commendeth H is love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” [ R OMANS 5:8 ] . - Gospel report by preacher Arthur Pink   

“ What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” - ROMANS 8:31 [KJV] What a testimony to the sovereign power of God’s grace. Nothing can prove a hindrance to the all-powerful grace of Jehovah! If God be for a man, nothing shall stop God from saving that man. “Yes, this is true,” say some, “providing the man is willing to be saved.” What! You mean to say that a grace so powerful that the gates of hell cannot prevail against it, a love so powerful that not anything created – neither angel nor Satan, neither death nor life, neither present nor future – can withstand His determination, can, nonetheless, be halted by the stubborn will of a sinful man? Such a thought is laughable on the very face of it. My will cannot so much as stop a virus from making me miserable with the flu! Shall I then stop the living God from doing anything He wants to do? It is only the puffed-up arrogance of sinful man that accounts his will of any effect. Many tim...

"He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what H e had promised, H e was able also to perform." -R OMANS 4:20, 21 [KJV]   This, then, was Abraham's faith. It was a firm credence in the promise of God made to him, and yet a faith that lived under opposition, hoping against hope, and being fully persuaded that what God had promised He would perform. Our faith, then, if it be genuine, must resemble that of Abraham. It must anchor in the truth of God as made life and spirit to our soul. It must meet with every opposition from without and within; from sin, Satan, and the world; from nature and flesh and reason all combined against it. But in spite of all, it must hope against hope, and be fully persuaded that what God has promised He is able to perform; and thus by perseverance and patient waiting obtain the victory.    Take another example, that of Moses: his fai...