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

The Wednesday Word: The Precious Work of the Holy Spirit by D.G. Miles McKee   John 16:14; “ He shall glorify M e” John 15:26; “ He shall testify of M e” 2 Corinthians 3:18; " But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord ." There are many who hold that the Gospel is about the cross while the ‘Full Gospel’ is about the Holy Spirit and His power in the lives of the believer. But here’s the truth, the Gospel is already full. It became full 2000 years ago in the doing, dying and rising again of the Lord Jesus. The Gospel is in no respect deficient or defective. There’s nothing which can be added to it, it lacks nothing, needs nothing and is wanting in nothing . The Gospel of Jesus Christ is already the Full Gospel. I’m sometimes asked whether I believe in the Holy Spirit. I reply, “Of course I do.” However, the genuine ...

"Bow down Thine ear, O L ORD , hear me: for I am poor and needy." -Psalm 86:1 [KJV] Whatever deliverance a man may have experienced, let him have been delivered from the lowest hell, and have had his feet placed upon a rock, yet all his life long he will have this experience wrought in him by the Holy Ghost,—to be "poor and needy." And only so far as he is poor and needy, will he want to know anything experimentally of the riches of Jesus Christ, or to taste the consolations which the Spirit of God alone can communicate to the parched and thirsty soul. How many we find in our day, who are "rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing," and yet they are always speaking and boasting of the riches of Christ. But what can they know of Christ's riches? His riches are for the “poor and needy ; " His blood is for the guilty; His righteousness is for the naked; His perfect work and finished salvation is for those who cont...

"...He saw them toiling in rowing; for the  wind was contrary unto them." -Mark 6:48 [ KJV ]  Jesus always sees our toils and distresses in this world. We do not see Him--and sometimes we think that He has forgotten us; but that is never true. He never forgets us, or is indifferent for a moment. On the heights, while the battle was in progress, stood a group of men watching the struggling armies on the plain below. In this group was the American general Sheridan , who watched the mighty strife with the keen eye of a soldier . King William was also there; but his interest was different from Sheridan's. His son was in the thick of the fight--and he watched the battle with the eye of a father , as well as of a king. Just so, Christ looks down upon our struggles in this world. He sees us straining and toiling ; He beholds all our battles and strifes . He sees us in the waves and in the storm . He sees us, not merely with the eye of the calm spectator --b...

"It is a gracious God who loves us before we were, who loves us in spite of what we did in Adam, who loves us in spite of what we are as sinners and what we do, who loves us with an everlasting love and that never changes. He could only love us in this way with the love which is in Christ Jesus!" -G ary Shepard "A naked sinner can be clothed, but a sinner covered with his own righteousness must be stripped. This is always true. We must be stripped of all that has to do with self or we cannot be clothed with that which pertains to God. We are called to live by faith; we can see nothing with the eye of sense. The Lord Jesus has gone up on high, and we are told to wait patiently for His appearing. God's Word carried home to the heart in the power of the Holy Spirit is the basis of confidence in all things: temporal and spiritual, present and future. He tells us of Christ's completed sacrifice. We by grace believe and commit our souls to the efficac...

“ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have  turned every one to his own way; and the  LORD hath laid on HIM the iniquity of us  all.” -Isa iah 53:6 [KJV] We trust Christ our risen Savior who died on the cross to put away all our sins. All our sins, not one omitted, were laid upon Him, and He died under the justice of God’s law for us. He became accountable for ALL our sins (sins of omission and commission), all our evil deeds, thoughts, and motives, all our iniquities were “laid on Him.” When He died, did He put ALL our iniquity away, or did He leave part of it to be borne by us? Praise God, HE PUT IT ALL AWAY BY HIS ONE SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS! How can we know this for certain? HE IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD! We trust Christ, “ Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification” (Romans 4:25). By His experience on the cross in His actual suffering the full punishment due unto all the iniquity of all His sheep, He brou...

My friends, when the Lord Jesus is truly seen, believed, and loved, there will be joy in the Lord with genuine peace of conscience. Yes, we are sinners; but Christ died for sinners! Yes, the law condemns; but Christ honored the law! Yes, justice has a claim; but Christ satisfied that claim! Yes, we are imperfect in faith, in commitment, in love; but "He know eth our frame; He remember eth that we are dust" and loves us all the same. We are in Him by HIS CHOICE, redeemed by HIS BLOOD, called by HIS SPIRIT, and kept by HIS POWER, through faith which HE GAVE US! How can I entertain any doubts based on shortcomings found in me when the whole affair is THE LORD'S DOINGS? -Gospel report by preacher Henry Mahan -see Psalm 103, vss. 1 – 14 [KJV]

When Moses had set up all the furnishings within the tabernacle and hung the curtain at the court gate, Exodus 40:33-35 says, "So Moses finished the work. Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. " Moses, a mediator appointed by God for Himself and the people, pictured Christ and the work of redemption that He accomplished on the cross. There, as the real Lamb of God, He poured out His life's blood on the heavenly mercy seat and cried out for all to hear, "It is finished." When the tabernacle was finished, "the glory of the L ORD filled the tabernacle." Moses and all the people were not able to enter the tent because the glory of God filled it. This teaches us an unchanging truth. The glory of Christ in all things, especially in sa...