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

"Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts." - Proverbs 31:6 [KJV] The wise mother of king Lemuel gave her son gracious directions when she spake these words. It is when we begin to feel the misery into which we have been cast by sin, and thus become ready to perish, and of heavy hearts, that the pure wine of gospel grace is suitable to our lost condition. As the holiness  and justice of God are discovered to the conscience, and we are made to see and feel the depths of the Adam fall, we look out of ourselves for a salvation which we could not find in our fallen nature or in our deeply corrupt and unbelieving heart.     When, then, we obtain by living faith a view of the Son of God as a Mediator between God and men , when we see by the eye of faith the blood of the cross, and the full and complete atonement which He, as the Lamb of God, made for sin, then we heartily embrace Him as "of God made unto us wisdom, and r

  Are you a Grace Believer? Part 1   by D.G. Miles McKee   Not everyone who claims to be a believer is a Grace Believer.  What about you?  Are you a Grace Believer?  It took me a long time to become a Grace Believer. Although I thought I was a Grace Believer I was more of a legalist than a grace man.   Maybe you are struggling to know the difference between living in grace and living under law. If you are, I hope the following is helpful.    1. Grace Believers trust that they are saved entirely and utterly by someone else … the Lord Jesus Christ. They believe that their sole qualification for salvation is found, not in their worthiness, but in their unworthiness.  You say... well OK I can agree with that. But hold on, we are not finished yet. The Grace Believer sees Christ as his complete and continual acceptance with the Father (Philippians 3:4-9). We are saved entirely by grace .   2) Grace Believers understand that to know Christ and Him crucified is not the minimum of spiritual kno