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

" ...I say unto all, Watch." -Mark 13:37 [KJV] It is very awful, when God’s precious promises are opposed to His righteous commands. Hence some get above and beyond duty: they cannot bear the word duty! O say they, don’t tell us of duty, it is such legal stuff! We are at liberty. We are not under the law, but under grace. True, indeed they are at liberty, but it is to pervert the gospel. They are awfully under the law of sin; not under the law of love, but the spirit delusion. Their ears are closed, and their hearts shut against the sweet voice of our loving charmer, Christ.  O my soul, watch against such, and their licentious notions of liberty, as you prize the love of Christ, and sweet communion with Him. He who sees no danger, and thinks he has nothing to lose, will give no attention to this command, Watch . It is here opposed to sleep. Sin is not dead. Satan never sleeps. The world ever invites and enchants. All is war against thee. Therefore, thy Lord in

"So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, He was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God." -Mark 16:19 [KJV] The right hand of God means the right hand of power, of dominion, of authority, and of acceptance. When our blessed Lord went back to the courts of bliss, and the gates of heaven lifted up their heads, and the everlasting doors were lifted up, and the King of glory went in, He sat down at once at the right hand of the Majesty on high. But what did this place of preeminence imply? It certified to principalities and powers, and the whole bright and glorious throng of angelic hosts, that God had accepted His work and given Him for His reward that exalted place of power, of honour, and of dignity .  For remember this, that our gracious Lord went up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God in His human nature. He did not go up to heaven as He came down from heaven only as the Son of God. He went up to heaven as the Son of man as wel

"Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and Thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart." -Jeremiah 15:16 [KJV] Yea, Lord, I have indeed found Thy words most precious, and, through Thy grace, I have eaten them, and they are as honey and the honey-comb to my soul. In them I find my God and Father in His covenant engagements, all pledged in faithfulness to His dear Son, to be the everlasting and unchanging portion of His redeemed. Oh! what unknown, what unspeakable blessedness do I find in that one promise; "I will be their God, and they shall be My people!" Here also I find Christ and His fulness; the Holy Ghost and His graces; the whole covenant and its rich promises: all, all secured, made over, and co-operating to the assurance of salvation!  And how then can Thy word, Lord, wherein Thou hast caused me to hope, be otherwise than "the joy and rejoicing of mine heart?" I have Jesus in all, and His promises in all, and therefo