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

LAW OR CHRIST? Occasionally I hear from someone, who wants to know what relationship believers have to the law, my reply is always the same. Believers are not under the law in any way, shape, form, or fashion. God's people are free from the law's curse, because "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us" (Galatians 3: 13). The law was not given to give life, or sanctification, but to reveal how sinful we really are. Can that which pronounces death give life? Can that which demands perfection give a man the ability to perform perfectly? Tell me, " ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?" (Galatians 4: 21) Do you not hear it say, "...by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in the sight of God" , or "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse" have you not heard it say, "Moreover the law entered that the offence might abound" ? Thank God that C

"Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her Beloved."   - Song of Solomon 8:5 [KJV]   Who is it that asketh this question, my soul? Is it the holy angels, astonished as they well may, at the gracious condescension of thy Jesus in the grace and favour He hath bestowed upon thee? Or is it the world at large, looking on with amazement at the love of Jesus to His chosen? Is it the Jewish church, amazed that Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of God's promise in Christ? Or, above all, is it Jesus Himself, not because He knoweth not the grace He hath bestowed, but because He admireth the grace He hath given, and as He did the centurion's faith which He Himself was the author of, He looketh upon it with pleasure?     And art thou, my soul, come up from the wilderness of nature, a dry, barren land, where no water of life is; from the wilderness of the world, and from all the unsatisfying and empty pursuits of it? Art tho