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

"While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen."   -II Corinthians 4:18 [KJV] His was the blessed plan of old testament believers, under present exercises— to look off from the objects of sight, and to substantiate and realize the objects of faith. They saw "the day of Christ afar off;" and in that view, "rejoiced and were glad." By this means they brought into present enjoyment things which—were distant; their faith acting like those glasses which magnify and bring home whatever is remote, as though it were nigh. Now, my soul, take instruction from those eminent worthies of the old testament school, that "through patience and comfort of the scriptures, thou also mayest have hope." By virtue of thine interest in Jesus, thou hast a large property in the world to come. If Christ be thine, all is thine. And certainly it is an extensive domain which thou hast in Christ's bond promises, and God's cove...

  Jesus Leaves us Speechless.   “And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knows;). How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.”  -II Corinthians 12: 3-4 [KJV]   “Thanks be unto God for His  uns peaka ble  gift.”   -II Corinthians 9:15   I am going to attempt to do the impossible. I will in these next few lines endeavour to speak about the unspeakable One, the Lord Jesus Christ.  The apostle Paul had been transported to Paradise where he heard unspeakable words.  He must have been overwhelmed with the reality of the invisible God made visible in the Lord Jesus.  He was left speechless.  There are many who think that the pinnacle of spirituality is to speak in tongues, but when Paul was confronted with the exalted Christ in His majesty, he couldn’t speak at all.     May we yet become speechless as we take time...