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

" And he requested for himself that he might die." -I Kings 19:4 “Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are.” -James 5:17 [KJV] This request proves it. It arose from fear and discontent. Both were occasioned by the threats of a weak, but wicked woman. Jezebel threatened his life. O how soon, and by what weak means, are the fine frames of God’s children spoiled and discomposed! What Elijah! that great prophet of the Lord, who had wrought so many notable miracles in the name of the Lord, who had been so miraculously fed by the ravens, according to the command of the Lord—he who had courage to say, “As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself to incensed Ahab to-day.”   What he! who had zeal to face four hundred and fifty of Baal’s priests, and to command them all to be slain, what does he request to die, because of the threatenings of a woman! What shall we say to this? Verily, human nature is the same in all, whether pa...

"The Bible from first to last teaches that the whole ground of our salvation or of our justification is objective, what Christ as our Redeemer, our ransom, our sacrifice, our surety, has done for us." - Charles Hodge , ‘ Systematic Theology, ’ vol.3, p.170 "Sir James Simpson the discoverer of chloroform, used to say that the greatest discovery he ever made was the discovery that he was a sinner and that Jesus Christ was just the Saviour he needed." -W. F. Boreham

" Stand fast therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." -Galatians 5:1 [KJV] Here is somewhat enjoyed, danger of being deprived of it, and the necessity of standing fast in it. Let us consider these three points, looking unto Jesus.  (1st.) What is enjoyed? Liberty. One of the most precious blessings in life. But this of all liberties, is the most precious. For, Christ hath made us free in our consciences. From the guilt and power of sin.  (2d.) From all condemnation of the law.  And (3d.) To have access to God as righteous persons.  He hath washed away the guilt of our sins by His blood: and subdued the power of them by His Spirit. “He hath delivered us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us” (Galatians 3:13.) So that there is therefore no condemnation to us, being in Christ Jesus, (see Romans 8:1.) He presents us before His Father in His perfect righteousness. We...

"For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." -Hebrews 10:36 [KJV] Why is patience needed? Because if we are the Lord's people, we are sure to have many trials. The Lord sends us afflictions that He may give us the grace of patience to bear them. But O, what a rebellious heart do we carry in our bosom! What perverseness, peevishness, and self-will dwell in us! How soon our temper is stirred up, and our irritable minds roused in a moment by the veriest trifle! How little patience have we under the trials that God sees fit to lay upon us! We thus learn our need of patience, and that it is not a fruit of nature's soil. The want of it makes the soul follow after it; and when the Lord does give submission to His will, and enables His children to see how profitable these trials are for their souls, and how, but for this heavy ballast, they would certainly have been carried away into the world, they can s...

"As the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto Me the whole house of Israel, and the whole house of Judah, saith the L ORD ; that they might be unto Me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory." -Jeremiah 13:11 [KJV] See, my soul, the blessedness of witnessing to God, and witnessing for God. His people, the Lord saith, are called, and are, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, as lights in the world. Both Israel and Judah are included in what is here said; and by the figure of a girdle cleaving to the loins of a man, so close, so strongly bound, and extending all around, is shewn the nearness, and firmness, and the security in every way, and by every direction, in which the Lord's people are brought into relation with Him.  Such, then, were the Lord's people of old, a people near to Himself; and as they were the Lord's own choice, so were they dear to the Lord; and as He had made the...