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

Christ is my Daysman, my Umpire, the only One W ho can open His "...mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction" (Proverbs 3 1 :8). He is the Intercessor for transgressors ( Isaiah 53:12 ). He is the all-powerful Advocate for sinful little children ( I John 2:1 ). He is the Great High Priest before my God, Who bears my name upon His breast-plate of judgment, and also the iniquity of my holy things, as He appears with His priestly crown, that I may be accepted before the LORD ( Exodus 28:38 ). In Him there is a glorious all fullness that secures for the elect of God all their sin and guilt put away, every question of sin forever settled, their persons accepted, their needs supplied, their enemies defeated, and their heaven sure. - Gospel report by preacher Thomas Bradbury, c. 1897 A.D.

Each glorious person in the Godhead has a glorious part in our salvation. GOD THE FATHER chose, sanctified, and set us apart in Christ before the world was; GOD THE SON took our humanity into union to His personal Godhead, was made flesh, lived a perfect life, suffered and died a solemn death, rose again from the dead, and is now exalted at the right hand of the Father, ever living to make intercession for us; GOD THE SPIRIT awakened the dead and "called us with a holy calling." This call is the solemn, soul-quickening, heart-rending call of the Holy God from death to Life, from darkness to Light, from the power of sin and Satan to the Kingdom of the Son of His love. So that, BEFORE THE WORLD WAS, the church was saved purposely by God the Father; IN TIME meritoriously by, the God-man, Christ Jesus, Who now lives above, their mediator, High Priest, and advocate; and IN THE DAY OF GOD'S POWER they are saved manifestly and vitally by the "washing of r...

"Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money: come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." -Isaiah 55:1 [KJV] How many a poor sensible sinner has, upon the strength of these words, looked unto Jesus and been lightened (Psalm 34:5), come to H im and met with a kind reception. By the power which attends such invitations the heart is opened, as was the heart of Lydia, to attend unto the things spoken in the gospel. It is not put away as too holy for a poor polluted sinner to touch, nor is the Lord Jesus viewed as an angry judge; but in these invitations H is clemency, tenderness, and compassion are seen and felt, and beams and rays of H is mercy and grace both enlighten the understanding and soften and melt the heart. Thence spring confession of sin, self-loathing, renunciation of one's own righteousness, earnest desires and breathings after the Lord, and an embracing of th...

"And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him.  And he said, It is the LORD: let Him do what seemeth Him good ." -I Samuel 3:18 [KJV] How great is our God whose hand paints every flower and shapes every leaf; who forms every bud on every tree and every infant in the womb; who feeds each crawling worm with a parent's care and every insect that sleeps in the bosom of a flower; who opens the golden gates of day and draws the dusky curtains of the night; who measures every drop of rain, the whirling flakes of snow and the sands of man's earthly life; who determines alike the fall of the sparrow and the fate of a kingdom; who so overrules the tide of human fortune that, whatever befalls a man, come joy or sorrow, the believer readily declares, "It is the LORD: let Him do what seemeth Him good." - Gospel report by preacher Thomas Guthrie (1803-1873 A.D.)

I cannot think of many things that are useful when they are broken. We are either forced to discard them or to try to have them repaired. You cannot drive a broken car. You cannot use a broken computer. A broken arm will not be of much service to you nor can you walk on a broken leg. I can only think of one thing that is very useful when it is broken, a broken and a contrite heart . When God in His infinite mercy is pleased to call us to Himself and reveal the Gospel to us, He breaks the hard and stony heart of sin and gives us a heart of flesh to humbly approach the throne of grace (Ezekiel 36:26). Consider the advantages of a broken heart! 1). A broken heart is acceptable and pleasing unto God! "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise" (Psalm 51:17). 2). It makes the soul a fit vessel for God to dwell in! "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I ...

The good news from heaven to lost sinners, that glorious gospel of salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ, is not a message of God's hopeful expectations to save, but of a salvation purposed and accomplished. It is not a message of Jesus Christ knocking at the door of the sinner's heart, hoping to gain an entrance, but of His determination and ability to give a new heart to whom He will. It is not a message of the Holy Spirit striving with the sinner's natural will, hoping to influence him to “decide for Jesus,” but of His purpose and ability to make sinners willing, causing them to flee to the Lord Jesus Christ (II Timothy 1:9; Psalm 110:3; John 17:2 & Isaiah 53:11). "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call H is name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21). Just as sure as his name is JESUS, HE SHALL save His people, all His people, from all their sins. What a Savior! - Gospel report by ...

"Beloved of God, called to be saints." -Romans 1:7 [KJV] The very word "saint" has become, through man's perverseness and wickedness, a word of reproach and contempt. But God will honour it, let men dishonour it as they please. God has put a crown of glory upon it, let men despise it as they may. There is no privilege or blessing that God can confer so great and glorious as to crown you with the crown of saint. He might have given you titles without number; H e might have showered riches upon your head in the greatest profusion; rank, fame, talent, beauty, health, all might have been poured at your feet; but what would all these be compared to making you a saint of God? But what is it to be a saint? It is to be sanctified by God the Father, set apart for H imself, to shew forth H is praise. It is to be washed in the atoning blood and clothed in the justifying righteousness of the Son, and to be regenerated by the Spirit of God. It ...