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

Christ Receiveth Sinful Men   “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.”   -I Timothy 1:15 [KJV]        The Lord Jesus Christ said, “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth His life for the sheep” (John 10:11) . Why did He lay down His life for His sheep? It was because  they are sinners, and sin must be punished with death. Christ, the good Shepherd, laid down His life for the sins of His  sheep charged to Him. Now if He died for His sheep who are sinners, He will most certainly receive His sheep who are  sinners. Christ receives His sheep, sinful men and women, as objects of His Father's love and as trophies of His Father's  grace. This is evidenced in time when in their new birth  ( regeneration and conversion by the Holy Spirit ) His sheep  follow Him as they believe God's promise in the Gospel,  receive Christ and His...

The Sinner's Plea – How Can a Guilty Sinner Find Mercy Before God? -message by preacher Henry T. Mahan (27 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_JVlzJ_IMM What can a guilty sinner plead before a holy God? Will God hear the cry of a sinner who comes before Him seeking mercy? In this deeply biblical sermon, The Sinner's Plea , we discover the only hope of guilty sinners before a righteous and holy God: the mercy, grace, and saving power of Jesus Christ. The Bible declares that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There is none righteous, no, not one.  Our own righteousness, good works, religious activities, and personal merits cannot justify us before God . Our sins have separated us from Him, and we are unable to save ourselves. But there is good news for guilty sinners! Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners . His precious blood is sufficient to cleanse from all sin, His righteousness is the sinner's only hope, and His unchanging priesthood ...

The True Church , Part II by D G Miles McKee     The cry of the New Testament is to, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, ( not The Church ) and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31) . We are to entrust our souls to Christ, not to the Church. Never ever do the New Testament apostles direct people to put their confidence in any Church.  No Church was nailed to the cross, Christ was. Trust Him. Jesus Christ is always the object of true saving faith. He, not any religious group, is the rock on which we rest with full confidence. We are to look unto Jesus ( not the church ) the Author and Finisher of our faith , "   (Hebrews 12:2) . Jesus said, “Come unto ME ( not the church ) and I ( not the church ) will give you rest , ” (Mathew 11:28) . But where is the True Church and where do we find it?  The True Church is in Jesus Christ alone! All who have trusted Him and His substitutionary work on their behalf are already in that True Church. Adolph Saphir makes a wise ob...

"The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away: blessed be the name of the LORD."   -Job 1:21 [KJV] Meek Moses, righteous Lot, patient Job, were as wicked by nature as any sinners that ever were born. True, they were eminent saints. But who made them so? The same Saviour, Who sanctifies you and me. Cease ye from man. Look upon the most holy saint, as a sinner in himself, but only distinguished by the grace of God. When any grace eminently shines in any sinner, remember it all comes out of the fulness of the Saviour. So look for grace for yourself. While Job suffers the loss of all, yet he glories in the possession of all. Thought he could not now say, my children, my possessions, my health, etc. yet he could say, “My Redeemer liveth , ” (chapter 19:25.)     The belief of this sweetened every cross: made up every loss: kept his head from sinking in the deep waters of affliction: his heart from fainting under the greatest tribulations: and fortified his mind with the greate...

"And His commandments are not grievous." -I John 5:3 [KJV]   Is it so, my soul, that the commandments of thy Lord are not grievous unto thee? Surely it is; for though thou carriest about with thee a body of sin and death, which is everlastingly harassing thee, yet thou canst, and dost say, "I delight in the law of God after the inward man : " yea, in the very moment that thine old unrenewed nature, when evil is present with thee, is tempting thee to break through the hedge of divine precepts, in thy regenerated part thou truly lovest and delightest in the holiness of thy Lord's commandments.    And are there not seasons in thine experience, when, in spite of sin, and Satan, and the world, thou canst adopt the language of one of old, and say, "Oh, how I love Thy law; it is my meditation all the day!" And is it not joy to thy heart, and a blessed part of thy faith, that the law of thy God was so pure and so strict, that rather than a jot of it should ...

"Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." -John 3:3 [KJV]   True religion begins with an entrance into the soul of supernatural light and supernatural life. How or why it comes the soul knows not; for "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth, so is every one that is born of the Spirit." The wind itself is not seen, but its effects are felt. The sound of a going is heard in the tops of the mulberry trees, where God Himself is not seen. The voice of the Lord, powerful and full of majesty, was heard by those who saw no similitude (Deuteronomy 4:12) . Thus effects are felt, though causes are unknown. Streams flow into the heart from a hidden source; rays of light beam into the soul from an unrisen sun; and kindlings of life awake in us a new existence out of an unseen fountain.    The new-born babe feels life in all its limbs, though it knows not yet the earthl...