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

"O F HIS OWN WILL begat H e us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of H is creatures." -J AMES 1:18 [KJV]   If we look at the work of the Spirit on the heart, we shall see how, in all His sacred dealings and gracious movements, He invariably employs truth as His grand instrument. Does He pierce and wound? It is by the truth; for the "sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God , " and that we know is " THE WORD OF TRUTH ." If He mercifully heal, if He kindly bless, it is still by means of truth; for the promise is, "Howbeit, when H e, the Spirit of truth is come, H e will guide you into all truth." And when He thus comes, it is as a Comforter, according to those gracious words, "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, H e shall testify of M e." In fact, if we look at the new man of grace that ...

  "The LORD shut him in."   -G ENESIS 7:16 [KJV] Noah was shut in away from all the world by the hand of Divine love. The door of electing purpose interposes between us and the world which lieth in the wicked one. We are not of the world even as our Lord Jesus was not of the world. Into the sin, the gaiety, the pursuits of the multitude we cannot enter; we cannot play in the streets of Vanity Fair with the children of darkness, for our heavenly Father has shut us in. Noah was shut in with his God. "Come thou into the ark , " was the Lord's invitation, by which He clearly showed that He Himself intended to dwell in the ark with His servant and his family. Thus all the chosen dwell in God and God in them. Happy people to be enclosed in the same circle which contains God in the Trinity of His persons, Father, Son, and Spirit. Let us never be inattentive to that gracious call, "Come, M y people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy ...

“ Our salvation is so well contrived, so well concerted, that God may have mercy upon poor sinners, and be at peace with them, without any wrong to His truth and righteousness.” – Gospel report by preacher Matthew Henry (1662–1714 A.D.)

Much notice is taken in Scriptures of the innocency, holiness and righteousness of the Redeemer; that He was holy in His nature, harmless in His life; that He knew no sin, nor ever committed any; that He, the Just and Holy One, suffered for the unjust. A great emphasis is put upon this, that the price with which men are redeemed is the precious blood of Christ, "as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot" ( I P ETER 1:19) . For if He had had any sin in Him, He could not have been a redeemer from sin, nor His blood the price of redemption. And yet more than all this, it is necessary to make this price a full and adequate one. It must not be the blood of a mere creature, but of O ne that is God as well as man. And such is Christ. Therefore, Christ, Who is God, is said to purchase the church with His own blood (A CTS 20:28) . Being God and man in one person, this gave His blood a sufficient virtue to make such a purchase. And a peculiar emphasis is put upon...

  Salvation, righteousness and everlasting acceptance by a holy God is only to be found in the Lord Jesus Christ and His work of redemption. Paul declared, "I know Whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day" ( II T IMOTHY 1:12) . Who we believe is vital. Having said that, we also understand that Who we believe does not mean what we believe is unimportant. If what we believe were of no consequence, the Savior would not have admonished, "Take heed what ye hear" (M ARK 4:24) . We will only believe the Savior as we understand Who and what God is, what we are by nature, what Jesus Christ is in His person, what He did by His substitutionary sacrifice, and what was the necessity for the sacrifice of Himself. By effectual grace we are made to know that the only way God can be a just God and a Savior is through the person and work of Christ. "They shall all be taught of God. ...

"Lead me in T hy truth, and teach me."   - P SALM 2 5 :5 [KJV] By what steps do we usually embrace the truth as it is in Jesus? First of all, for the most part, we receive it as a doctrine; the judgment being more or less informed, the eyes of the understanding being enlightened to see it in the word. The doctrine for some time may be floating in our mind; but after a time, as the Lord leads us more into a knowledge of our own hearts, and into a deeper feeling of our necessities, he lets down the truth from our head into the heart, and it then becomes a truth. It is very sweet to have a doctrine turned into a truth. But after a time, we want something more than a truth; we want it as a blessing. When we are brought into pressing straits and severe trials, we need the doctrines which we first received into our minds as truths, now to be blessed by a Divine application to our souls. Thus, what we first knew in our judgments as a doctrine, is afterwards received ...

"For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them who fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us." - P SALM 103:11-12 [ KJ V]   Infinitude is borrowed to exemplify God's mercy. Immeasurable distance parts the heaven from earth, so God's mercy exceeds all bounds. Thought cannot conceive it. Words cannot express it. Ransomed souls are its main recipients. They are aptly described as filled with the reverential grace of fear. Infinite space again expresses the removal of our sins. No traversing steps can join the east to west. As we advance from the one the other constantly recedes. Let us bless the Holy Spirit for employing this image to teach how utterly the guilt of sin is canceled. -excerpt from "Daily Prayer And Praise" by preacher Henry Law