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

"He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth H is mercy and H is truth ." -Psalm 57:3 [KJV] And where is God's mercy revealed? Outwardly in the word of God; inwardly in the heart. And it is by sending His mercy into the conscience, shedding abroad His love in the soul, manifesting His pardoning favour within, that God "saves from the reproach of him that would swallow us up." Man may say, 'I do not doubt your religion; surely you have marks and testimonies of being a child of God!' Ministers may come and endeavour to soothe you, and often by their soothing make more mischief than they mend: 'O, no doubt, if you are exercised with these things you are a child of God;' as though a man could be satisfied with exercises, and because he is hungering and thirsting after the Lord, could be contented with his famine and his drought. No; these things do not touch the secret ma...

HERE’S THE QUESTION, Part I by D.G. Miles McKee   Here’s the Question … What does it take for a believer to lose their salvation and perish? Here’s the Answer … l. For a believer to become lost and perish, Christ would have to become a liar for He promised that believers could never perish (John 10:28). 2. For a believer to become lost and perish, Christ would have to become a promise breaker for He promised to never cast us out (John 6:37). 3. For a believer to become lost and perish, Christ would have to leave him to his own devices. But, will Christ ever leave H is people?  He promised He would never do that (Hebrews 13:5). 4. For a believer to become lost and perish, He would have to become un-chosen (Ephesians 1:4). That would mean that Christ was mistaken about him when He chose him in the first place. So much for a God who knows all things! 5. For the believer to become lost and perish, He would have to become un-redeemed. But, when we are redeemed, we...