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

" ... Who loved me, and gave H imself for me." -Galatians 2:20 [KJV] See, my soul, how Paul is for ever using Jesus, and feasting for ever upon Him. Oh! seek grace to do the same. He saith, Jesus loved him; Jesus, the Son of God, loved Paul. Now love from any object is valuable, but from the first, and best, and greatest of all Beings, what invaluable love is this? And who did Christ love? "Why me," saith Paul: "who was a blasphemer, a persecutor, and injurious." And how do you know, Paul, that Jesus loved you? " He gave Himself for me," saith Paul. "Gave Himself?" Yes, Himself. Not His gifts only, not His grace, not His mercies, though all creation is His. And whatever He gave must have been an undeserved mercy; for I merited hell, when He bestowed upon me heaven. But even heaven, with all its glories, is nothing, saith Paul, to what Jesus gave me; for He gave "Himself for me."   Oh! my soul, wilt thou not look up, wilt th...

This is Gospel Truth! by preacher D.G. Miles McKee 1 Corinthians 15:1-4   What is the gospel?  The simple answer is, the gospel is the person, doing, dying and rising again of the Lord Christ.  He, Himself, is God’s good news from Heaven.  Since the gospel is about Him it is, therefore, not about you and not about me. It is about Jesus. This is Gospel Truth! The gospel, among other things, reveals God’s purpose, accomplished by Christ, for the recovery of sinful people from the deplorable state into, which they had fallen (Luke 19:10; Matthew 1:21). This is Gospel Truth! The gospel tells of how God came to this earth in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was not an impersonation of God, He was, in fact, God manifest in the flesh (1 Timothy 3:16). This is Gospel Truth! As a man, He obeyed God’s laws and requirements on our behalf. (Hebrews 4:15; 2 Corinthians 5 : 21; John 15:10). I’m amazed by this grace. My only qualification for such a Saviour ...