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

One day as I was passing into a field, this sentence fell upon my soul – “Thy righteousness is in heaven.” And with the eyes of my soul I saw Jesus at the Father’s right hand. “There,” I said, “is my righteousness!” So that wherever I was or whatever I was doing, God could not say to me, “Where is your righteousness?” For it is always before Him. I saw that it is not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor yet my bad frame that made my righteousness worse, for my righteousness IS Christ. My chains fell off indeed. My temptations fled away, and I lived sweetly at peace with God. Now I could look from myself to Him and could reckon that all my character was like the coins a rich man carries in his pocket when all his gold is safe in a trunk at home. I saw that my gold was indeed in a trunk at home in Christ my Lord. Now, Christ was all my righteousness, sanctification, redemption. -excerpt from “Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners,” by preacher John Bunyan

  A Few Gospel Mercies Part 1 by preacher D G Miles McKee   Romans 12:1 ……..  “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the  mercies of God , that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,  which is  your reasonable service.” What are these mercies? The mercies of God are wonderful truths related to the gospel!  Would you like to enjoy victorious Christian living?  It is found as a result of believing and applying the mercies of the gospel. For the believer, true guilt free, victorious living can only be realized through continual exposure to the gospel and its truths. There are no techniques or formulas for spiritual victory. True victorious living comes from beholding Christ alone. Far from being merely for the unsaved, the gospel is the essential message for every believer (Romans 1:5). Alas, in this day and age of formulas and the quick fix, this truth is missing from many of our pulpits. However, a...