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

" At that day, saith the L ORD , thou shalt call me Ishi, and shalt call me no more Baali." -Hosea 2:16 [KJV] Many people say, “The Scripture is a dead letter.” Who told them so? not God in His word. True, St. Paul says, “The letter killeth” (II Corinthians 3:6.) This cannot prove the Scripture to be a dead letter; but only, that the letter of the law is a ministration of death. Therefore, even the law cannot be a dead letter: for that which killeth cannot be dead itself. St. Stephen calls it, “The lively oracles” (Acts 7:38.) Our Lord says, “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63.)   If we are dead to the law and married to Christ, here is a precious word of spirit and life from our loving bridegroom to us this night. Married by faith: this is what constitutes “that day,” that gospel-day of our espousals. Whatever may be in the womb of God’s purpose and decree concerning any sinner, yet he can enjoy no comfort of it,

The Great Sin of the Self-Righteous   by D.G. Miles McKee   The great sin of the self-righteous, self-centred man is not his pride; it is his unbelief.  For his salvation, he adamantly refuses to rest on the gift of the Lord Jesus  (John 3:18; 1 John 5:10; 1 Corinthians 16:22) . This is his most heinous crime, carrying with it a more concentrated condemnation than all his other sins combined.  Consider this, Jesus taught, " When He  (the Spirit)   is come He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment  …  because they believe not on Me "   (John 16:8-9) . Notice how the Master says that the Spirit will convince the world of sin because they do not keep the Ten Commandments. Woops! Did I just say that? It must have been me for it certainly wasn´t what Jesus taught. According to Jesus, the first sin that the Holy Spirit convicts us of is, not that we are lawbreakers, but that we do not believe on ( rest on ) Him. The Spirit’s priority is to