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

“ I have stuck unto T hy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.” -P SALM 119:31 [KJV] In whatever state or stage of experience you are, it will be your wisdom and your mercy to STICK TO GOD’S TESTIMONY . Has the Lord just begun a work of grace in your heart? Is H e shewing to you what you are by nature, and bringing before your eyes the sins of your youth, and plunging you in deep convictions? It will be your wisdom, and it will be your mercy, to stick to that testimony; not to be driven from your standing into despair, nor pushed forward into fleshly confidence; but to stick to that testimony which God himself has implanted. Has God made you to sigh and cry from the depths of a broken heart – to fall down before H is truth? Stick to that testimony; H e will not put you to shame. Again, if the Lord has done a little more for you, shewn you the least glimpse of mercy and favor, and given you some little testimony of your interest in the blood of the Lamb, it will be y...

"Somewhere in my reading I came across the expression, "The richness of the ascension." I was struck by the expression because so little is said or written these days about the tremendous act of both the Father and the Son, by which the Gospel of God concerning His Son is brought to its climax. A gospel that does not speak of an ascended Lord is not the Gospel of God! If the Gospel is Christ and Christ is the Gospel, and surely this is true; we must proclaim a Christ risen, exalted and reigning. He must be preached where He is now identified as the pre-existent, virgin born, sinlessly living, vicariously dying, Son of the living God.  Always the apostles preached the living Christ and worked backward, a decided reverse from the gospel of today. This is God's good news. How can Christ be preached if He is not preached where He is now? If Christ be risen and exalted, the rest is easy to accept! If not, the virgin birth and everything else cannot be acce...

“ Who H is own self bare our sins in H is own body on the tree” - I P ETER 2:24 [KJV] We beg the Lord, sometimes, to give us a broken heart, a contrite spirit, a tender conscience, and a humble mind; but it is only a view by faith of what the gracious Redeemer endured upon the cross, when H e bare our sins in H is own body with all their weight and pressure, and with all the anger of God due to them that can really melt a heart, and break a stony heart. No sight, short of this, can make sin felt to be hateful; bring tears of Godly sorrow out of the eyes, sobs of true repentance out of the breast, and the deepest, humblest confessions before God what dreadful sinners and base backsliders we have been before the eyes of H is infinite Purity, Majesty, and Holiness. Oh, what hope is there for our guilty souls; what refuge from the wrath of God so justly our due; what shelter from the curse of a fiery law, except it be in the cro...

“ I am well satisfied it will not be a burden to me at the hour of death, nor be laid to my charge at the day of judgment, that I have thought too highly of the Lord Jesus Christ, expected too much of Him myself, or labored too much in commending and setting Him forth to others, as the Alpha and Omega, the Lord our righteousness the sufficient atonement for sin, the only Mediator between God and men, the true God and eternal life. On the contrary, alas! My guilt and grief are, that my thoughts of H im are so faint, so infrequent, and my commendations of Him so lamentably cold and disproportionate to what they ought to be.” - Gospel report by preacher John Newton (1725-1807 A.D.)

“God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself” - II C ORINTHIANS 5:19 [KJV] This phrase declares the ministry of reconciliation which God has given to faithful preachers. It declares the AUTHOR, MEANS, SUBJECTS, and CONSEQUENCES of that work. In the person of His dear Son, God was actually providing Himself a lamb, a ransom, and an atonement. He did not charge our sins to us, but to Christ, having made Christ to be sin for us. The word “world” does not mean that Jesus Christ effectually bore the sins of every son of Adam and reconciled every person to God by His death. If this be the case, no one would be finally lost. He reconciled the “world” in the sense that He actually redeemed a people out of every kindred, nation, and tongue, not of the Jews only (R EVELATION 5:9-12) . John Owen said, “If Christ died for ALL of the sins of ALL men, then ALL men would be saved; if Christ died for SOME of the sins of ALL men, then NO ONE would be saved; but in that He died ...

“ It is astonishing that I should so be one with Christ, that all that He is becomes mine; and all that I am becomes His: His glory mine; my humiliation His! His righteousness mine; my guilt His! His joy mine; my sorrow His! His riches mine; my poverty His! His life mine; my death His! His heaven mine; my hell His!”   - Gospel report by preacher Octavius Winslow (1808–1878 A.D.)

“ For God, W ho commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. ” -II CORINTHIANS 4:6 [KJV] When a man is walking in the darkness and death of unregeneracy, he has no true light. He may indeed have a false light, as the light of presumption, delusion, or vain-confidence; but all such borrowed light is worse than darkness; as the Lord says, “If the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” The only saving light is THE LIGHT OF GOD SHINING INTO THE SOUL , giving us to see and know “the only true God, and Jesus Christ W hom H e hath sent.” A man may have the clearest light in his judgment, and yet never have the penetrating light of the Spirit producing conviction in his soul; he may have the soundest knowledge of the doctrines of grace, and see the harmonious scheme of salvation; and yet never have seen a holy God by divine teaching, nor have...