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

"And let the beauty of the L ORD our God be upon us: and establish T hou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish T hou it." -P SALM 90:17 [KJV] What is this beauty? "The beauty of the L ORD our God." It is, therefore, the beauty of the God-man; the comeliness, the holiness, the perfection, and glory that ever dwell in the Son of God. Now "days of affliction, and years of evil" have marred all creature comeliness. There was a time, perhaps, when we could take some pleasure and delight in what we were, or what we vainly fancied we should be. Our own righteousness had a beauty and comeliness to us; and our religion was amiable and pleasing in our own sight. But what has become of it? Marred, marred; effectually marred. By what? "Days of affliction, and years of evil." These have effectually ruined, defaced, and polluted all creature comeliness. In a word, we were once deeply in love with self; but self...

The good news from heaven to lost sinners, that glorious gospel of salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ, is not a message of God's hopeful expectations to save, but of a salvation purposed and accomplished . It is not a message of Jesus Christ knocking at the door of the sinner's heart, hoping to gain an entrance, but of His determination and ability to give a new heart to whom He will. It is not a message of the Holy Spirit striving with the sinner's natural will, hoping to influence him to decide for Jesus, but of His purpose and ability to make sinners willing, causing them to flee to the Lord Jesus Christ ( s ee II T IMOTHY 1:9; P SALM 110:3; J OHN 17:2; I SAIAH 53:11) . "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call H is name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins" (M ATTHEW 1:21) . Just as sure as His name is JESUS, HE SHALL SAVE His people, ALL His people, from all their sins. What a Savior! - Gospel report by pre...

“ For WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL  UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD  SHALL BE SAVED .” -ROMANS 10:13 [KJV]

"He hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" -II C ORINTHIANS 4:6 [KJV] The knowledge of the glory of God we now see in the face of Jesus Christ is THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL OF HIS GRACE ; it is the glorious counsel and covenant mercies in Christ; it is that Gospel whereby He shows mercy to whom He will show mercy and is gracious to whom He will be gracious. The glory of God which He has revealed to our hearts is that righteous life and sin-offering which enables God to be just and justifier. This knowledge of the glory of God in Christ is not a mere head knowledge of fact and doctrines, but it is a life-giving, heart experience of the power, love, grace, and wisdom of God whereby we cry, "Father, Father." Christ has fully declared God, revealed Him, interpreted Him, and brought God out where He may be seen. Christ is the full revelation of the living God to which NO OTHER REVELATION SHA...

"That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."     -J AMES 1:4 [KJV] The word "perfect" in the Scripture does not mean, as applied to a saint of God, anything approaching to the usual idea of perfection, as implying spotless, sinless holiness, but one who is matured and ripened in the life of God, no longer a child but a grown man. As a tree grown to its full stature is said to have attained perfection; so when the Lord the Spirit has brought forth the work of patience in your soul, as far as regards that work you are perfect , for it is God's work in you; and so far you are "entire," that is, possessing all which that grace gives, and "wanting nothing" which that grace can communicate . To submit wholly to the will of God, and be lost and swallowed up in conformity to it, is the height of Christian perfection here below; and he that has that wants nothing, for he has all things in Christ. What, then, is the great...

"Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen."   -J UDE 24, 25 [KJV]

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for T hou art with me; T hy rod and T hy staff they comfort me." -P SALM 23:4 [KJV] Death, the gaunt king of terrors; Death, who with his scythe in his resistless hand, mows down whole millions of the human race; Death, who awaits his victims at every corner; Death, that must soon lay you and me low in the grave, casts a shadow wherever he comes. He visits the sick room, and casts a shadow there; he hangs over the cradle, and his shadow falls on the infant's face; he comes in the Indian letter from abroad, or with the black seal and mourning envelope put into our hand at home; and these tidings or these tokens cast a deep shadow over our hearts. Indeed, where is the place where death does not cast his shadow? where the house where this shade has never fallen? In fact, he never comes without it. He is "the last enemy;" he is the final fulfilment of the original curse....