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

“ Christianity is the religion of a Book. Christianity is based upon the impregnable rock of Holy Scripture. The starting point of all doctrinal discussion must be the Bible. Upon the foundation of the Divine inspiration of the Bible stands or falls the entire edifice of Christian truth. “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” [ P SALM 11:3 ] . Surrender verbal inspiration and you are left like a rudderless ship on a stormy sea, at the mercy of every wind that blows. Deny that the Bible is, without qualification, the very Word of God, and you are left without any ultimate standard of measurement and without any supreme authority. It is useless to discuss any doctrine taught by the Bible until you are prepared to acknowledge, unreservedly, that the Bible is the final court of appeal. Grant that the Bible is a Divine revelation and communication of God’s own mind and will to men, and you have a fixed starting point from which advance can ...

"Let T hy work appear unto T hy servants, and T hy glory unto their children." -P SALM 90:16 [KJV] "Let T hy work appear unto T hy servants." Creature works we here read nothing of. They had been long ago cut to the very ground. And what had been their deathblow? What had driven the dagger into their very heart? "Days of affliction, and years of evil." These had been their destruction; creature righteousness they had stabbed to the very heart, and let out the life-blood of human merit. There is no petition, then, "Let our works appear!" No. These were buried in the grave of corruption; these were swallowed up and lost in "days of affliction, and years of evil." But, "Let T hy work," the finished work of the Son of God; the obedience of Jesus to the law; the atoning blood which He shed upon Calvary's tree; the work which He undertook, went through, and completed,— "Oh," breathes forth the man ...

This is the caution which the Son of God gave to His disciples when He ministered among them on earth, and the Holy Ghost caused it to be penned, that the true Church of God might use it as a watchword to the end of time; and never since this caution dropped from the lips of Jesus, has it been more needed than now; for men seem to vie with the prince of darkness who shall most effectually oppose the kingdom of Christ and the spiritual interests of His blood-bought family. “ Beware of men,” not merely of profane men, open infidels. Little caution is necessary respecting them, because “The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves” [ I SAIAH 3:9 ] . But the men who assume the profession of Christianity, without possessing its vital principle, are the men of whom the Savior’s watchword is, “Beware!” The men who put on “a form of godliness, bu...

"Then they cried unto the L ORD in their trouble, and H e delivered them out of their distresses ." -P SALM 107:6 [KJV]   Oh what a mercy it is that there is a God to go to! a God who hears and answers prayer! And what a blessing it is to be able to unbosom before Him the burdened spirit! Observe the words: "Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble." If you have trouble it is a sufficient warrant for you to go to God with it. Do not trouble yourself with the question, whether you are elect or non-elect. God does not put it in that shape, and you need not. The answer will best shew on which side of the line you stand. Does He not say: " Call upon M e in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify M e? " If you have a day of trouble, you have here a sufficient warrant to call upon God. Write not, then, bitter things against yourself. If you are enabled to sigh and cry unto the Lord there is life in your soul. God h...

Believing the gospel is no small thing. The message of salvation altogether by grace dependent upon the merits and work of the Son of God is offensive to the natural man because it is a double declaration: fallen man is unable to save himself and consequently , “ S alvation is of the LORD.” It proclaims that redemption has been obtained, reconciliation has been accomplished, sins have been put away and righteousness has been brought in for all of God’s elect by the obedience unto death of the resurrected, exalted Christ. When God the Holy Spirit comes to a spiritually dead sinner, He finds in that poor, indigent rebel nothing with which to work. The sinner’s mind is enmity against God, his heart is as adamant stone toward the truth and his will is set in opposition against the divine will. The Spirit must quicken the dead, break down the rebellion, convince of sin, give a new heart, grant repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and seal upon the he...

“ If any present in this assembly have never obeyed the King, may they come to trust in Him today for He is a tender Savior and is willing to receive the biggest and blackest sinner who will come to Him. Whosoever trusts in Him will never find Him to fail for He will save to the uttermost them that come to God by Him. May He bring you to His feet and reign over you in love.”    - Gospel report by preacher Henry Mahan, c. 1956 A.D.

"The sighing of the needy." -P SALM 12:5 [KJV] The distinguishing mark and character of a needy soul is to be full of needs. Day after day he wants divine realities to be revealed to his soul, to hear the sweet voice of mercy speaking into his heart, as from the lips of God Himself, that he is an accepted child, that he may bathe, as it were, in sweet manifestations of the love and mercy of God. In the supply of want he believes the marrow of all true religion and vital godliness to consist. So that he cannot take up with his present state of need for religion. If he is in doubts and fears, or is passing through heavy temptations, and is writing bitter things against himself, he cannot say "this is religion;" but what he wants is something different from what he feels, even the blessed testimonies and manifestations that he is one of the Lord's own dear family; and I am very well assured from soul experience, that nothing but the application ...