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

  Cleansed from all Sin by D G Miles McKee     “ The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from  all  sin.” – I John 1:7 [KJV]   This verse tells us that the blood cleanses us, not just from some sin, but “from all sin.” Where is our original sin (Romans 5:12) , the sin received from the Fall of Adam? ---it’s gone! How? The blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. Where is our inherited sin, the sin with which we were born (Psalm 51:5) ? It’s gone! How? The blood of Jesus, God’s Son, cleanses us from all sin! Where is our actual sin, those vile disturbances of filth that erupt from deep within. The penalty for them is gone! How? The blood of Jesus, God’s Son, cleanses us from all sin. The blood cleanses from all sins, big sins, small sins, sins of commission, sins of omission, deadly sins, sins of lust, sins of adultery, sins of lying, stealing, pride and arrogance--the blood of Jesus cleanses them all. Surely this one verse, (1 John 1:7) when be...

"...and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace."   - Ephesians 6:15 [KJV]   Soldiers of Christ, you are not only commanded to stand against every enemy, but to march on: to follow the Captain of your salvation, in the way to eternal glory . Here you must expect the enemy will strive to retard your march. He will strew the road with difficulties and entanglements—with briers and thorns—make it rugged, and almost impassable, as though every step was upon sharp stones and goading spikes. Your feet must be shod, or you will halt when you should march: turn back when you should go forward. "No one can make a shoe to the creature’s foot, so as he shall go on easy, in a hard way, but Christ. He can do it to the soldier’s full content.    How doth He it? Truly, no other way than underlaying it: or, if you will, lining it with the peace of the gospel . What though the way be set with sharp stones? If this shoe go between the Christian’s foot a...

"The top of Pisgah." -Deuteronomy 34:1 [KJV]   There is somewhat truly interesting in this account of Pisgah, to which Moses ascended before his death. The relation, no doubt, was intended to convey seasonable instruction, of a spiritual nature, to all true believers in Christ, in their Pisgah contemplations of the promised land. My soul! sit down this evening, and see what, under divine teaching, thou canst make of it. Probably thy Lord, thy Jesus, may grant to thy faith, sights yet more glorious than even Moses beheld in open vision, when he went up to Mount Nebo. "The top of Pisgah" afforded to the man of God, a beautiful prospect of Canaan; and as we are told, that "his natural force was not abated, neither his eye become dim;" he might possibly view the boundaries of Israel's dominions; which, in point of extent, reached but little more than fifty miles in one direction, and about three times that length in another.    Indeed, we ...

"The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; send Thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion." - Psalm 20:1, 2 [KJV]   When the soul has to pass through the trying hour of temptation, it wants help from the sanctuary. And nothing but help from the sanctuary can ever stand it in any stead. All other help leaves the soul just where it found it. Now why does the Lord send help from the sanctuary, but because the soul to whom help is sent stands interested in the Father's love, the Saviour's blood, and the Spirit's teachings—interested in the eternal covenant transactions of the Three-One Jehovah.    Help is sent him from the sanctuary, because his name has been from all eternity registered in the Lamb's book of life, graven upon the palms of His hands, borne on His shoulder, and worn on His heart. He was in the sanctuary when his covenant Head stood up on his behalf, and in the Lord's ...