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

“ Christ came to take away our sins, to roll off our curse, to unbind our chains, to open our prison house, to cancel our debt; in a word, to give us the oil of joy for mourning and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness [ISAIAH 61:3 ] . Is not this joy? Where can we find a joy so real, so deep, so pure, and so lasting? There is every element of joy: deep, ecstatic and satisfying joy in the gospel of Christ. The believer in Jesus is essentially a happy man. The child of God is, from necessity, a joyful man. His sins are forgiven, his soul is justified, his person is adopted, his trials are blessings, his conflicts are victories, his death is immortality, his future is a heaven of inconceivable, unthought of, untold and endless blessedness. With such a God, such a Savior and such a hope, is he not, ought he not to be a joyful man?” - Gospel report by preacher Octavius Winslow

In spite of what false religion says in our day, Christ and His word still say, “ All things are delivered unto Me of My Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and He to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him” [MATTHEW 11:27 ] . No man can by searching find out God, God must reveal Himself to us and in us. This He does to His people through the word of the truth of the gospel and by His Holy Spirit. He does this, as Paul says, when it pleases Him to do so. He cannot be hurried and His hand cannot be stayed. Paul’s description of his own experience is the same with all that God saves: “ But when it pleased God, Who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood” [GALATIANS 1:15-16 ] . Not even the clearest preaching of the gospel alone will avail for sinners who are dead spiritually an

"Ye are not your own." - I C ORINTHIANS 6:19 [KJV] There is a blessed sense in these words, "Ye are not your own." Remember you must be some one's. If God be not your master, the devil will be; if grace do not rule, sin will reign; if Christ is not your all in all, the world will be. It is not as though we could roam abroad in perfect liberty. Some one will have us. We must have a master of one kind or another; and which is best, a bounteous benevolent Benefactor such as God has ever shewn H imself to be; a merciful, loving, and tender Parent; a kind, forgiving Father and Friend; and a tender-hearted, compassionate Redeemer, able to save us to the uttermost; or a cruel devil, a miserable world, and a wicked, vile, abominable heart?   Which is better, to live under the sweet constraints of the dying love of a dear Redeemer; under gospel influences, gospel principles, gospel promises, and gospel encouragements; or to walk in fancied liber