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

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." -J OHN 8:32 [KJV] The truths of the gospel, though to an enlightened eye they shine as with a ray of light all through the word, yet are they, for the most part, laid up as in veins: "Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it." "As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and under it is turned up as it were fire. The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold" [JOB 28:5, 6 ] . But where is "the place of sapphires?" and where this "dust of gold?" "In the path which no fowl," no unclean professor, "knoweth, and which the vulture's eye," keen though it be after this world's carrion, "hath not seen." But to a spiritual mind sweet and self-rewarding is the task, if task it can be called, of searching the word as for hid treasure. No sweeter, no better employment can eng...

“ The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee” -P SALM 20:1 [KJV] Sound doctrine is absolutely essential to knowing the true God in Christ. We know Him only if we know Him as He is revealed in the scriptures and we have hope of eternal life only through His life and death as declared in the Gospel. Yet, correct doctrine and a clear head understanding of these things, as vital as they are, often become very hollow and empty in the time of trial. When tragedy comes, when life-threatening afflictions come, when grievous family circumstances come, the Lord’s people would trade all for a moment of God’s felt presence. Their desire is to know the blessed Holy Spirit as the “Comforter.” To feel the love of God shed abroad in their hearts by Him would bring a ray of sunlight on an otherwise dark day. Oh to hear Him say to our broken spirits from His word, “I will never leave you or forsake you” is the greatest delight. The...

“ Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.   And ye know that He was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin .” - I JOHN 3:4-5 [KJV]  

"The life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God." -G ALATIANS 2:20 [KJV] There is no way except by being spiritually baptized into Christ's death and life, that we can ever get a victory over our besetting sins. If, on the one hand, we have a view of a suffering Christ, and thus become baptized into His sufferings and death, the feeling, while it lasts, will subdue the power of sin. Or, on the other hand, if we get a believing view of a risen Christ, and receive supplies of grace out of His fulness, that will lift us above its dominion. If sin be powerfully working in us, we want one of these two things to subdue it; either we must have something come down to us to give us a victory over our sin in our strugglings against it, or we must have something to lift us up out of sin into a purer and better element. When there is a view of the sufferings and sorrows, agonies and death of the Son of God, power comes down to the soul i...

“ No more soul-destroying [ false- ] doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please. As it is a truth both of Scripture and of experience that the unrenewed man can do nothing of himself to secure his salvation, it is essential that he should be brought to a practical conviction of that truth. When thus convinced, and not before, he seeks help from the only source whence it can be obtained.” — Gospel report by preacher Charles Hodge (1797 – 1878 A.D.)

Jesus remains the same in all ages. He is the One who is constant when everything and everyone else fails. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever; the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. He is our R ock [I SAMUEL 2:2 ] . In the Old Testament, in Exodus 33, Jesus is pictured as the Cleft Rock. In that chapter, verse 18 and following, Moses desired to see the glory of the Lord, but was told, "You cannot see My face; for there shall no man see My face and live.” And the Lord said, “There is a place by Me, and you shalt stand upon a rock: and it shall come to pass, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by." Notice that as Moses stood upon the rock, the Lord hid him in the cleft. This wonderfully applies to us today! Believers are both standing on and hidden in Christ [COLOSSIANS 3:3 ] . We are both in and on the Rock. As life with its many bitter events presses upon us, ...

“ I heard another voice from heaven, saying, C ome out of her, M y people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues” -REVELATION 18:4 [KJV] But, what is the great and infallible security against being led away by the heresies around, and the discovery of the false spirits which come forth to deceive? There is but one, and a sure one it is, which never hath failed, neither can fail, amidst all the present errors of the day, or all that may arise; namely, the regeneration of the heart, or the being born of God. Where God the Spirit hath quickened a sinner, which was before dead in trespasses and sins, this precious child of God hath in himself a full testimony to his sonship, in being born of God, and a confirmation also, that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, being God and Man in One Person, the Christ of God. Reader! look into your own heart, and see whether it be not a most firm and unquestionable security...