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

" It pleased the Father, that in Him should all fulness dwell." -Colossians 1:19 [KJV] The religion of nature is the religion of pride. Pride is of the devil. Pride works by a lie, and keeps the soul in unbelief of the truth. Hence, we naturally think some change in us, some good done by us, causes God to be our Father, and we consider ourselves as His very good children. This notion obtains in the mind of many, and is the cause of their rejecting the everlasting covenant of the three-one Jehovah, and denying the covenant relations and transactions of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. They are so filled with themselves, with their Stuff of inherent righteousness, freewill, moral agency, and one knows not what unscriptural jargon, that they see not all fulness in Jesus, where it pleased the Father it should dwell.  Lord! empty us of all self-fulness, that we may receive out of Thy fulness. The Father, by covenant love, took on Him that near and dear relation t...

"As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied when I awake with Thy likeness." -Psalm 17:15 [KJV] Is it refreshing to thee now, my soul, the least glimpse of Jesus' face; the smallest manifestation of the glories of His Person and of His work; and the very sound of His voice, in His word or ordinances? Think, then, what will be thy felicity in that morning of the eternal world, when, dropping thy vail of flesh, He whom thou seest now by faith only, will then appear as open to thee as to the church above in glory! Pause, my soul, over the vast thought! What will be thy first sight of Jesus? What will be thy feelings, when, without any intervening medium, thou shalt see Him face to face, and know even as thou art known? Precious Lamb of God! grant me grace to feel the blessedness of this first interview. Appearing, as I trust I shall, in Thine own garments, and the robes of Thy righteousness, and which Thou hast not only provided for...

"The dead are raised up." -Matthew 11:5 [KJV] "The dead are raised up." The "dead" are those who by nature are dead in sin. These dead are raised up when life from God visits their souls. They are raised up to faith in Jesus, raised up to hope in His name, raised up to a sense of His dying love to their souls, raised up from doubt and fear, raised up from the depths of despondency, to look unto Him and be saved. What a mercy it is that the Lord of life and glory still puts forth the same power in the hearts of His people, that He once put forth in their bodies, and that He raises them up from their state of death and deadness! Do we not often feel so dead, as though we had not a particle of the grace of God? So dead, that it seems scarcely possible to have a sensation of spiritual life again? So dead, that we almost fear whether the power of God was ever felt in our hearts? Now, the Lord raises up life and feeling in our souls, by putting for...

Jesus at the Right Hand - Part I by D G Miles McKee   “But this man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God ; ” (Hebrews 10:12 and see also Hebrews 1:3).   In the past I have spoken on the meaning of Jesus being at the right hand of God, but some newer believers, perhaps, have not grasped the meaning of this wonderful truth.    To say that Jesus is at the Right Hand of God is to use anthropomorphic language and anthropomorphic language when used in reference to God represents the Almighty as having human characteristics.  We read, for example, of God having “nostrils” (Exodus 15:8), a “face” (Psalms 27:8), a “hand” (Deuteronomy 9:26), and a “mighty arm” (Psalms 89:13). This does not mean, however, that God has any of these things any more than He has wings (Ruth 2:12). We know that God, in essence, is Spirit (John 4:24), but to make Himself more clear...