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

“ Come now, and let us reason together, saith the L ORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.” -Isaiah 1:18-19 [KJV] COME to the Lord Jesus Christ. Don’t come to the Preacher, or Church, or Baptism, or some fleshly experience. COME to the Lord Jesus – COME to God by Him. COME with your heart opened to Him. COME sincere and honest with Him. He knows your very thoughts. COME NOW to Him. As you are reading this article COME to the Lord Jesus. He waits now to hear the voice of your heart, begin to speak to Him NOW. COME now and REASON with Him. Not about your goodness, but your badness; not about your obedience, but disobedience, your sins. Tell Him your sins are exceedingly sinful, more than you could ever comprehend. Tell Him you are worthy to be judged and sent to eternal misery for your sins. Tell Him how red and black and damnable yo...

  "Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? But My people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit." -Jeremiah 2:11 [KJV]   Pause, my soul, over these words! Was it ever known that any nation changed their dunghill gods for others? Such regard had they for whatever ignorance had set up, that the veneration never after ceased. But Israel, above every other nation of the earth, manifested folly, and even exceeded the most senseless and stupid of men. My soul! dost thou not in Israel's folly behold thy own? Was there ever one, when the Lord first called thee, less deserving? A transgressor, as the Lord knew thee, from the womb! And yet this did not prevent the Lord from calling thee.  He loved thee because He would love thee; gave thee His Christ, — gave thee His Holy Spirit—gave thee the name, the privilege, the adoption of a son. What returns hast thou made? How often since hath thy backslidings, thy coldness, thy departures, been like Israe...