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

"And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead." -Romans 1:4 [KJV]   Do not, my soul, hastily pass away from this most precious subject of thy Lord's resurrection. It is an inexhaustible theme, and will be among thy felicities in eternity. Yesterday, thou didst but barely consider the fact. Let this day occupy thy thoughts on another sweet portion of it, in beholding how Jesus effected it by His own power and Godhead. He had said before that He had power to lay down His life, and power to take it again. And He had told the Jews to destroy the temple, by which He meant the temple of His body, and He would raise it again in three days. He had proclaimed Himself to be the resurrection and the life: and here He proved it, when He was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by His resurrection from the dead.       Now, then, pause over this glorious view of Him w...

"The Lord is risen indeed." -Luke 24:34 [KJV]   Let thy meditations, my soul, this morning, be sweetly exercised upon thy risen and exalted Saviour. For if thy Lord be indeed risen, then will it undeniably follow, that as He died for our sins, so He arose for our justification, and is thereby become the first fruits of them that sleep. Beg of God the Holy Ghost to lead thee into the devout contemplation and enjoyment of this soul-reviving subject. Trace the testimonies of this wonderful event, until, frown being overpowered in the vast assemblage of witnesses, thou art prompted to cry out in the same language, "The Lord is risen indeed." And surely never was there any one fact so fully, so dearly, and so circumstantially confirmed. It hath the united testimony of heaven and earth: of angels and men, of the living and the dead, of friends and foes; and God Himself confirming it in the midst of His people, by sending down the Holy Ghost agreeably to th...