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

The grace of God must come from the “ God of all grace.” Grace is like God Himself and comes from Him alone. We only preach and believe the gospel of grace when we preach and believe “ the true grace of God.” When the apostle Paul writes in Ephesians 1, he testifies to the grace of God that precedes even time itself. God goes before and acts in grace, initiating all the blessings of His grace to His people when He chose them in Christ before the world began. God’s grace is characterized by His action and power and is truly omnipotent grace. Since grace cannot be merited and only comes from God, it must be accurately described as His free and sovereign grace. He is gracious “ to whom He will be gracious.” Paul again in Ephesians 1 speaks of God’s grace to us in another way saying that all of salvation is, “ To the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the Beloved" (Ephesians 1:6). What a full expression of God’s grace to God’s elect.  First, wh...

"Godliness is profitable unto all things." - I Timothy 4:8 [KJV] What is "profitable?" I may define it in one short sentence—that which does the soul good. Now "godliness" is profitable unto all things, as doing the soul good in all circumstances. Here it stands apart and separate from everything of a worldly nature. Here it is distinguished from the "bodily exercise that profiteth little." It is "profitable unto all things." In sickness, in health; in sunshine, in storm; upon the mount, in the valley; under whatever circumstances the child of God may be, "godliness" or rather the "exercise" of godliness is profitable. And it is drawn out by these circumstances. It lives in the face of trials; it is strengthened by opposition; it becomes victorious through defeat; it gains the day in spite of every foe: "Stands every storm, and lives at last."   It does not die away like "bodily exercise;" i...