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

Jude 1:20-21 gives us a four-fold defense against error, indifference, and falling away. 1. " Building up yourselves on your most holy faith ." This growth, strength, and help comes through GOD'S WORD! Search it, study it; for in it is life.   2. " Praying in the Holy Ghost ." The spiritual man can no more live without prayer and fellowship with God than a natural man can live without breath­ing.   3. " Keeping yourselves in the love of God ." Do not allow any root of bitterness to spring up and take us from our FIRST LOVE--His love for us, our love for Him, and our love for one another.   4. " Looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ ." Don't ever shift your gaze from Him to any­one nor anything. " Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith ."   - preacher Henry T. Mahan

" Behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth." -Joshua 23:14 [KJV] Though fully assured of his near dissolution, yet with what calm composure doth Joshua utter these words! Though you are a sinner, and must fall under the sentence of death for sin, yet you need not be under bondage all your life time through fear of death. Why should you? Has not the sinner’s Friend gained a complete and everlasting victory over death, the sinner’s enemy?   Consider what Christ hath done for us sinners. For sinners we are, and shall be, though redeemed by the blood, and sanctified by the Spirit of Christ. When the messenger of death kills the body, and calls the soul to glory, then honour thy Lord’s work by the faith of thy heart. So fear and terror shall flee thy soul. By His death, He has appeased divine Justice. As Jonah, His type, being cast into the sea, quelled the storm; so Christ, being cast into the furnace of divine wrath, quenched the flames. God is just, wh...