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

  Faith asks no signal from the skies, To show that prayers accepted rise; Our Priest is in the holy place And answers from the throne of grace.                                                                              --Josiah Conder     -------O-------     ETERNALLY SECURE IN CHRIST          Someone asked me, “Do you think those who believe on Christ are eternally secure, or do you believe that a person can, through sin and neglect, lose their salvation?”   My response was, “What do the scriptures say?”   This is always how we should seek to answ...

“In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.  Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.  And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory ” (Isaiah 6:-1-5).   Isaiah was privileged with a sovereign revelation of the glorified and victorious Lord Jesus Christ.  However, before that came to pass the Lord killed Isaiah’s king, Uzziah.   Maybe Isaiah thought too highly of this most popular and powerful king (II Chronicles 26:11-15) .  Maybe Isaiah took his eye of faith away from the King of kings and starting trusting Uzziah to solve Israel’s troubles.   When the Lord killed Uzziah, He took away all the support that Isaiah was resting in. Isaiah was shut up to the only King, God...

" But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. " -I Peter 3:15 [KJV]   God is essentially and infinitely holy. We do not make Him so; but we do declare, proclaim, and regard Him to be our Holy and Sovereign Lord in two ways.   1 . INTERNALLY - " Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts ." Unless we truly love, praise, and worship God in our hearts, all of our outward form and claims are hypocrisy.   2 . EXTERNALLY - He is sanctified by His people when we walk in the Spirit, obey His word, preach His gospel, and live together in peace.   "BE READY TO GIVE AN ANSWER." When a person asks us to tell him why we believe our sins are pardoned, why we are not under condemnation, and why we expect to dwell in the house of the Lord forever, be ready to give him a scriptural answer. It is because " Christ loved us and gave Himself ...

“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.” - Matthew 10:34 [KJV]   At first glance this statement the Lord Jesus Christ makes seems to be contradictory to other places where the gospel is called, the gospel of peace (Romans 10:15) . We also read about our God being called the God of peace (Hebrews 13:20) . The Lord Jesus Christ is also called the Prince of peace (Isaiah 9:6) .   The Lord Jesus was instructing His apostles before He sent them to preach the gospel of the kingdom (Matthew 10:7) and He tells that His message is not one that would bring world peace among all men or all nations . We are not to expect that. Christ did not come to give His life to bring peace among nations.    But rather the Lord Jesus Christ gave His life as a sacrifice for sin to bring peace and reconciliation between God and His covenant children (Ephesians 2:12-18; Colossians 1:12-23) . We do have peace with God through our L...

The Salvation of the Righteous Sub-titled: 'God's Promise of Deliverance' by preacher Henry Mahan (45 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhAm6Zgs3SA  

"The kingdom of God is not in word, but in power."   -I Corinthians 4:20 [KJV]   It is the wisdom of a Christian to improve from the various objects he meets with. See we an open, profane sinner? beware of looking down upon him with Pharisaic pride, and supercilious contempt: behold in him your wicked nature! Remember, grace alone made the difference: be humble: adore the God of grace. See we only the form of godliness in any? St. Paul tells us how to act: “From such turn away” (II Timothy 3:5.) You will get no good from them. There is little hope of doing good to them: leave them .    Why so? Because they are strangers to the vital power of godliness, and destitute of the inward experience of the grace of Christ upon their souls. True, they may make a great shew; have vast zeal for the interest of a party; be very warm and violent for the form of sound words, a consistent plan of doctrine, and a set of Scripture notions. But, yet, after all, it is bu...

"And they journeyed; and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob." -Genesis 35:5 [KJV]   It was the evening before the last, that my soul was led to the contemplation of what is the everlasting security of a child of God, amidst all the corruption, within and without, which he carries about him in a body of sin and death. It will form a very pleasing subject, to a similar effect, to trace also a believer's security from the world at large, in the natural enmity there is in every unawakened heart to a state of grace. And this precious scripture traces every child of God's safety to the same source. The family of Jacob, the praying seed of Jacob, are still journeying; for here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. The people of God are but few in number; yea, very few: the scripture saith, "And they are strangers in the land , "   -Psalm 105:12 .   The very...

"I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living." -Psalm 116:9 [KJV]   There is a distinction between walking before God and walking with God. To walk before God is to walk with an abiding sense of God's eye being upon us; to walk with a desire to do those things which are pleasing in His sight; to walk in His ordinances blameless; to walk before His people with our garments unspotted by the world; in a word, to walk before Him in private as in public, alone and in company, before the Church and the world, by day and by night, as we should walk if we had a personal view of His glorious majesty in heaven before our eyes.    Now if you carried about with you a deep and daily sense that God saw every thought, marked every movement, heard every word, and observed every action, this sense of His presence would put a restraint upon your light, trifling, and foolish spirit. You would watch your thoughts, your words, your actions, as living under a sense of G...