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

" There is no fear in love. But perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment; he who feareth is not made perfect in love." -I John 4:18 [KJV] The wild fire of nature’s passions are often mistaken for heavenly love. These have hurried people into dreadful delusions. Some have pretended to be so perfect in love, as to have nothing but pure love in them, and that the being of sin was entirely taken out of them. But they have soon given awful evidence, that they “deceived themselves, and that the truth was not in them” (I John 1:8.)   Be wise by other’s harms. Study the word of God: abide by that. Live upon the perfect love of God: glory in that alone. For you are, and ever will be, while in the body, the subject of sin, therefore subject to that fear which hath torment: to fear God as an enemy, armed with almighty vengeance and vindictive wrath against you, a sinner. How is this tormenting fear to be cast out? By love; the perfect love of God in Chri...

" Hearing Christ preached fills the regenerate with joy, while it fills the unregenerate with hatred because his evil deeds are exposed (John 3:19, 20; Luke 4:5) . Offering Christ appeals to the unregenerate. Christ offered to them leads them to think they can control God and that they have the power to either receive or reject Him. Hence, their ego is excited.  They are led to believe their wills can determine what they will do with the sovereign God of the universe. Offering Christ attracts crowds in crusades, churches, etc. It gets success in the eyes of the world. Preaching Christ is to the contrary. Offering Christ does not bring the unregenerate to the dust at the feet of the sovereign Savior." -preacher Wilbur Elias Best

Saved by Grace in Christ by D. G Miles McKee D.G. Barnhouse tells the following story. Many years ago there was a gospel minister named Harry Morehouse who was walking along the street in a poor part of an American city when he witnessed a minor tragedy. A small boy, who could not have been more than five or six came out of a store with a pitcher of milk in his hands. The little fellow was making his way carefully along the street when he slipped and fell, the pitcher broke, and the milk spilled all over the sidewalk. He let out a wail, and Morehouse rushed to see if the boy was hurt. There was no physical damage, but the child would not be consoled, crying out over and over, “My mama’ll whip me! My mama’ll whip me.” Mr. Morehouse said to him, “Maybe the pitcher is not broken in too many pieces; let us see if we can put it together again.” The boy stopped crying at once, as he had no doubt before seen bits of crockery glued together to remake a broken plate or cu...

"Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do ." -Luke 23:34 [KJV] My soul, art thou still taking thy stand at the foot of the cross? Art thou still looking up to Jesus? If so, listen now to His voice. There were seven expressions of Jesus, which were His last words, which He uttered on the cross. The last words of dying friends are particularly regarded: how much more the last words of the best of all friends; even the dying Friend of poor lost perishing sinners. Those which I have chosen for the portion of the day were the first; and they contain the strong cry of Jesus to His Father for forgiveness to His murderers.  And what endears those expressions yet more to the heart are, that they are not only the first upon the cross, but they are wholly, not for Himself, but the people.  During the whole painful process of suffering, when they scourged Him, crowned Him with thorns, smote Him with their hands, and mocked Him, we hear no voice o...