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

The more we gain confidence in those that are used of God to preach and teach us, the more care we must give to try (test) all they say by the Word of God. This, lest we should become as was said of a man who was asked, "What do you believe?" He replied, "I believe what my preacher believes." Then he was asked, "What does your preacher believe?" His replay was, "He believes what I believe!" Humorous, yes, but sadly too real in the experiences of many professors of religion today. The apostle Paul was greatly used of God to teach many; but it was said of the "noble Bereans" who heard him that they "received the word with all readiness of mind, and SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES DAILY, whether those things were so" (Acts 17:10,11) . Every true gospel preacher wants his hearers to listen with Bible in hand and then go home to search it to know of a certainty that what they were told is of God. John's words still ring tru...

"I will lay thy foundations with sapphires." -Isaiah 54:11 [KJV] Before we can stand firmly in the things of God we must have a good foundation, something solid for our faith, our hope, our love, our all, to rest upon. This God promises to lay for His afflicted Zion: "I will lay thy foundations with sapphires." "A gift," we read, "is a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it." Every testimony, then, that God gives to the soul, every promise brought into the heart, every manifestation of mercy, every visit of love, or application of truth, we may call, in a spiritual sense, a sapphire; for it is indeed a precious stone, radiant with heaven's own hue. When God thus lays His sapphires in the soul, they afford a solid foundation for faith. And as they are laid by the hand of God Himself, they must be firm; as they are sapphires, they must be indestructible. These sapphires, it is true, may every one of them be buried in the dust of c...

"In His days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is His name whereby He shall be called, T HE L ORD OUR   R IGHTEOUSNESS " -Jeremiah 23:6 "...the righteousness of God without the law is manifested... being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus ." -Romans 3:21-26 "I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins." -Isaiah 43:25 "For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." -II Corinthians 5:21 "Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniqu...

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." ---Jesus Christ the LORD, sent by the Father to effectually & fully SAVE poor, needy, wretched sinners by His own sovereign free grace and by His perfect righteousness charged to our accounts!  (John 5:24, KJV)