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

“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands; thy walls are continually before Me.” -Isaiah 49:15-16 [KJV] This is a revelation of the Lord’s everlasting concern for and faithfulness to His chosen people; here is our eternal security. How delightful to meditate upon our Lord’s unceasing care and concern for His children. If we could by faith behold the Lord’s unending designs of grace toward us, then like Paul we would be joyful in the Lord even in the midst of dark trials and we would lean upon His word of promise, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” (Hebrews 13:5). Pay special attention to those words, “I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands.” The text does not say that our names are painted on His hands lest we imagine they could be rubbed out and neither are our names said to be written on His h...

" Woe unto them which justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him." -Isaiah 5:23 [KJV] Persons are said in the Scripture to do a thing, when they aim to do it, and, if it were in their power, would do it: so apostates are said “to crucify the Son of God afresh” (Hebrews 6:6.) But that is impossible. Yet, by denying Christ to be the Son of God, they justify the act, and, were it in their power, would do it again. So here, a woe is denounced against persons for teaching cursed, corrupt doctrine.  (1st.) “They justify the wicked for a reward.” This is the common and prevailing doctrine of our day. The wicked is the character of every natural man. Let the lives of such be ever so wicked, yet, instead of being told the necessity of being born again of the Spirit and justified by the Son of God, they are taught to believe they can bribe God’s justice, obtain His favour, and justify their souls in His sight, by their dut...