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

“ Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succour them that are tempted.” -Hebrews 2:17-18 [KJV] The Son of God, in our nature, having finished His redemption-work, and returned to heaven, wears that nature in an everlasting union with His GODHEAD. So that as God and Man in one Person, He hath a perfect sense and apprehension of what constitutes the nature of both. He knows as GOD. He feels as MAN. Hence, it follows, that His consciousness of what our nature is by His own, cannot but make Him enter into an intimate concern and fellow-feeling, in all that belongs to His church. He knows all, enters into the concerns of all, and feels for all His afflicted people. -preacher Robert Hawker (1753 – 1827 A.D.)

The Lord Jesus Christ taught us the nature and power of the work of the Holy Spirit in our conversion. He said, “And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: o f sin, because they believe not on Me; o f righteousness, because I go to My Father, and ye see Me no more; o f judgment, because the prince of this world is judged” [ John 16:9-11 ] . This is not simply the fact that there is a judgment. This is the glorious truth that our Lord’s suffering on Calvary’s cross was judgment for His people. On the cross, Jesus Christ was judged for all the sins of His people charged to Him, and therefore they do not have to face any judgment, because they have borne their judgment in Christ, their Substitute and Surety. They who are brought by the Holy Spirit to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ do not bear the penalty of sin because they have already borne it in their Substitute, the Lord Jesus Christ. They do not have to bear condemnation for s...

"Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have [ hold fast ] grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear." -Hebrews 12:18 [KJV] Grace is the very foundation of the kingdom which cannot be moved. It is all of grace, from first to last. By grace we are saved; by grace we are called; by grace we are what we are. In order, therefore, to maintain our interest clear in the kingdom which cannot be shaken, we must hold grace fast ; for directly we cease to do this, we lose our comfortable prospects of this kingdom, and of our own participation in it and its heavenly blessings. It is a kingdom of present grace and of future glory , therefore built wholly upon grace and not upon merit; wholly upon the favour of God and not upon the works of the creature. As long, then, as we hold fast grace, we hold the kingdom; for the kingdom stands in grace.   But why should this exhortation be needed? Is it not very easy to hold fast grace? Y...

P EACE WITH GOD!   “And, having made peace through the blood of His cross …”   -Colossians 1:20   Some years ago, a young woman lay dying of tuberculosis.  A local minister visited her, and after making inquiries about her ailing health they had the following conversation.   Minister: “At this stage, it seems there is not much hope of your recovery.”   Patient: “I am told by the doctors there is none, sir. "   Minister: “Well, then, since you are facing eternity and must meet God, I need to ask have you made your peace with Him?”   Patient: "No, sir."   Minister: “Do you not think it is time you began to do so? "   Patient: “No sir.”   Minister: “But why not?”   Patient: “Because my peace with God was made by Jesus when He died on the cross many years ago. The Bible tells me that Jesus has already made peace through the blood of His cross and I have received, by faith, what He has accomplished for ...