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

" Ye are not your own, ye are bought with a price." —I Corinthians 6:19, 20 [KJV] O, how dear is every believer to God the Father, to Jesus the Saviour, and to the Spirit the Comforter? Each divine Person claims propriety in them. The Father by election: the Son by redemption: the Holy Spirit by inhabitation. How should this, O soul, call forth love, excite gratitude, inflame with affection, and quicken thee to glorify thy Lord! Consider daily, thou art not thine own, but a ransomed captive of Jesus. Reflect on the price Jesus paid for thy redemption.  Thou art bought with blood: with blood divine: blood, spilt on the accursed tree, in direful agony and shameful death, was the price of thy purchase. So thy Saviour bought thee, at the hands of justice. He paid the utmost farthing of thy debt to law. He redeemed thee from the power of Satan; and snatched thee as a brand from the jaws of death and hell. And canst thou ever think thy redeeming Lord will leave the pu...

  The Gospel and the Believer- Part 4 by D.G. Miles McKee   To grow in our Christian life, we must practice looking unto Jesus.  He is the sovereign and exalted One who lived, died and rose again for us.  There is no other way to successfully live the Christian life than by looking unto Him (Hebrews 12:1-2). But how do we look unto Jesus?   That’s a great question.    The first thing that looking to Jesus means is that we must stop continually examining ourselves and our condition.  There’s room for a little of that but being absorbed with ourselves is not the road that leads to spiritual health. Dedicated believer-centered believers find it difficult to follow the instruction of Hebrews 12:1-2 for they are too busy looking at themselves. To look, therefore, unto Jesus, we must take our spiritual eyes off ourselves and place them firmly on the One who has bought and paid for us with His blood!  But the truth is, believer-centred ...