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

" Great peace have they which love Thy law: and nothing shall offend them." — Psalm 119:165 [KJV] All inward peace and tranquility of mind arise from the knowledge and love of the law of the Lord. But hath not the apostle told us, "the law worketh wrath?" — Romans 4:15 . Have not believers experienced a sense of wrath in the conscience, through "the knowledge of sin by the law?" Yes, verily. But this law, the moral law, is subservient to the everlasting law of love, the eternal covenant of grace and peace ; therefore in time "it was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to Whom the promise was made;" even Jesus, the Seed of the woman, in Whom the law of peace and salvation centered... Of Whom the ceremonial law was a shadow; and by Whose holy life, the moral law received perfect obedience to all its demands, and a full satisfaction for all its curses and penalties by His sin-atoning sacrifice. This eternal law, ...

Bathed in the Gospel: Part II by D. G. Miles McKee Popular as they are in some quarters, the believer has no need to be taught techniques of spiritual self-crucifixion. Why not?   Because self-crucifixion is both spiritually and physically impossible!  Try physical crucifixion on a cross and see for yourself.  You can hammer the nails into your feet and then maybe, just maybe, into one of your hands, but you can’t hammer the last nail into the remaining hand.  Likewise, self-imposed spiritual crucifixion is a myth! With gospel faith, however, techniques of spiritual self-crucifixion are done away with because, as a result of the gospel, we are already reduced to our proper place of brokenness and dependency.     Jesus taught that true discipleship was to deny self, take up our cross and follow Him (Matthew 16:24). This is exactly what happens when we receive salvation by faith alone. Faith agrees with and embraces God’s verdict that we...