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

“ If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” - I JOHN 1:9 [KJV]   “He is faithful and just.” Oh, what a word is that! There is scarcely to my mind such a word in the Bible as that; so great, so glorious, so comforting: “He is faithful and just.” “Just” say you, “why I know that God’s mercy and God’s grace can pardon sinners; but how can God be just, and pardon transgressors? Does not God’s justice demand the punishment of sin? Does not God's justice blaze forth in eternal lightnings against the soul that transgresses H is holy law? How, then, can it be true, that God can be just, and yet forgive a confessing sinner?" But it is true, divinely True, blessedly, eternally true. And in it is locked up that grand mystery of redemption by the blood and obedience of God's co-equal Son. It is locked up in this one word— "just." "But how?" it may be asked. In this way...

I try diligently to preach God as He is to sinners as they are, and to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ as the only Mediator between a holy God and sinful men, the all glorious, all sufficient Saviour. I try my best to preach to men and women: 1. A God they cannot satisfy. 2. A holy law they cannot keep. 3. An obedience they cannot render. 4. A righteousness they cannot produce. 5. A love they cannot give. 6. A sinfulness they cannot get rid of. 7. A just judgment they cannot endure. 8. A required repentance they cannot produce. 9. A saving faith that can only be obtained as a free gift of God. 10. BUT, a Christ who fully satisfied God for sinners, both law and justice. Sinners need only to hug up to Him, trust Him, and all will be well with their souls. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. No doubt about it. - Gospel report by preacher Maurice Montgomery

Because God will have all the glory of our salvation, He saves the worst among us. How bad are you? Paul said he persecuted the church, but he found mercy. How low have you sunk? Did you help slay Him on that tree? Remember this: God saves great sinners. He saves the chief of sinners. "He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him" [HEBREWS 7:25 ] . If you do not find salvation in Christ it will be because you look for it elsewhere. If you perish without being saved through the blood of Christ, it will not be because of a lack of power in that blood, but because you will not look to Him alone. -Gospel report by preacher Milton Howard

"That He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." -R OMANS 3:26 [KJV] Every created thing, every finite intelligence, must sooner be annihilated, than Jehovah can sacrifice, or suffer the slightest tarnish to come over any one of His eternal attributes. Yet God can be just, infinitely just, scrupulously just, unchangeably just - and yet, preserving His attribute of justice unchanging and unchangeable, He can still be "the justifer of him which believeth in Jesus." The way by which this was effected will take a countless eternity to understand, and a boundless eternity to admire and adore. But what is meant by the expression "the justifier?" "The justifer" means, that God can count man as righteous, can freely pardon his sins, can graciously accept his person, can impute to him righteousness without works, and can bring him to the eternal enjoyment of Himself. And who is the character that He thus brings...

"H E SAVED US --- not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy." - see T ITUS 3:5 [KJV] Ritualism, or externalism, or traditionalism are all different forms of self-righteousness; man's self-invented ways of pleasing or appeasing God, or paying for admittance into heaven. These forms of self-righteousness are a human apparatus for procuring God's pardon. They are the means by which the performer of them hopes to win God's favor--perhaps, also, man's praise--most certainly, his own esteem. Every act, or performance, or ceremony, which honors self, exalts self, or gives prominence to self--is an accursed thing. It is an abomination in the sight of God--however religious, or sacred, or solemn, or devout, it may seem to man. It is to self-righteousness in some form or other, that man is always tending. Man attempts to make up for this badness, or to cover it over, by works, and devotions, and ceremonies. All this is ...

The apostle Peter writes in his first epistle, chapter two and verse 23 that Christ “ committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously.” As the Substitute and therefore Sin-bearer of His people, He faced the judgment of God in their place and for their sins. Isaiah tells us that the Lord had laid on Him their iniquities. All responsibility for their sins was His and all the judgment for them fell on Him. Then Peter says of Christ, “ Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” What did Christ bear in His own body? Obviously, it was the judgment due our sins. Since that judgment was death, this is why His “body” was required. The perfect body prepared for Him was necessary in order for Him to die as the sinless Sin-bearer the death required. “ The soul that sinneth shall surely die.” “ The wages of sin is death.” He who knew no sin died as the “ Just for t...

"According as H e hath chosen us in H im before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before H im in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to H imself, according to the good pleasure of H is will." -E PHESIANS 1:4, 5 [KJV]   It is a very solemn but a very true assertion, that no man can quicken his own soul; and it is an equally solemn, we might almost say, a tremendous truth, that the gospel only comes in power to those whom God has chosen unto eternal life. Indeed the one flows from the other; for if no man can quicken his own soul, it necessarily follows it must be of sovereign grace that it is quickened at all. Once you allow the fall, and acknowledge that a man is by nature so thoroughly dead in trespasses and sins that he cannot raise himself up out of this state to newness of life, then the doctrine of election necessarily follows. A living soul may reason thus: "Am I quickened? Yes...