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

William Wilberforce (1759–1833 A.D. ) was the foremost campaigner for the abolition of slavery in Britain. He led this campaign for forty-six years, from 1787, when he was thirty-two years old, until his death in 1833. He learned on his deathbed that the Slavery Abolition Act had passed. What joy it must have been to him to know that, upon his death, slaves in the dependencies of Britain would be freed, and that his efforts had not been in vain. He saw the results of his many years of labor, and was satisfied. But the satisfaction of Jesus Christ surpassed that of Wilberforce! Jesus labored for the emancipation of Jehovah’s people. They were spiritual slaves: slaves of sin [JOHN 8:34 ] , slaves of uncleanness [ROMANS 6:19 ] , slaves of lawlessness , slaves of Satan [II TIMOTHY 2:26 ] , slaves of their own will and lusts and desires [EPHESIANS 2:1-3 ] . What joy it must have been to Jesus to know that, upon His death for His people, all of them would be freed, and that His...

"Christ died for the ungodly." -ROMANS 5:6 [KJV] To redeem poor sinners, Jesus came down from heaven, put on the rags of our mortality, agonized, bled, died. Jesus is made His people's substitute, burden-bearer, sin-remover, guilt-sustainer. Their debt is placed to His account. His riches pay the full amount. Sin is removed from the sinner, and placed on the Sinless! Their curse is rolled on Him, and He endures it, until no more remains! God deals with Jesus as the guilty one! He, as spotless Deity, receives imputed sins, and fully expiates them all. In the vicarious victim, God's justice is satisfied, and wrath expires! Jesus, in His life, in the garden, on the cross suffers their sufferings, dies their death, and so becomes their uttermost salvation! His pains are their pardon! His stripes are their healing! His agony is their recovery! -Gospel report by preacher Henry Law (1797–1884 A.D.)

"Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion." -JEREMIAH 31:12 [KJV] Until the redeemed know something of the efficacy of atoning blood and have their consciences purged from guilt and filth by its application, they cannot come and sing in the height of Zion. But when they are redeemed from the hand of Him who is stronger than they; when atoning blood is applied to their consciences to purge away guilt and filth; when Christ is revealed and made experimentally known; when His gospel in the hands of the Spirit becomes a word of power, and a view of the King in His beauty is granted to the believing heart, then, drawn by the cords of love and the bands of a man, they come to Zion, where the King sits enthroned in glory. It is called "the height of Zion," not only because Zion was high literally, but because the Lord of life and glory is exalted to the highest place of dignity and power. God's ancient promise was, "Behold, M y servant s...

The Unique High Priest by D.G. Miles McKee For something to be deemed UNIQUE it must be the only one of its kind. It is, therefore, impossible for something to be more unique or most unique. If it is unique, it is unique. It stands alone. There is nothing like it. Therefore, Jesus is the unique priest. None can compare to Him. There were, of course, the priests of the Old Testament. They repeatedly brought offerings of the blood of bullocks and lambs to deal with Israel’s sin. Each year there was a continual offering for sin. This was merely A SIGNPOST TO CHRIST. And then came Jesus. He was the unique priest who made a unique offering. He didn’t offer up the blood of some wee animal. No indeed, He offered Himself and was in this way a priest unparalleled and unrivaled in the annals of human history. He was unique. No other priest would have dared offer himself for the sins of his people. Why? Because he, himself, was a sinner. He would have had to have an atonement made f...

"For we which have believed do enter into rest." -H EBREWS 4:3 [KJV]   We enter into rest by ceasing from our own works, and resting on Christ's; according to the words, "For he that is entered into H is rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from H is." Now when you can fully rest upon the finished work of the Son of God, and believe by a living faith that your sins were laid upon His head; that He bore them in His body on the tree; that He has washed you in His precious blood, clothed you with His righteousness, and is sanctifying you by His Spirit and grace, then you can rest. There is something here firm and solid for the conscience to rest on. Whilst the law thunders, whilst Satan accuses, whilst conscience condemns there is no rest. But you can rest where God rests. God rests in His love; in the finished work of His dear Son; in the perfection of Christ's humanity; in His fulfilment of all His covenant engagements; in the glo...

“ Indeed this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world, namely, that a righteousness that resides with a Person in heaven should justify me, a sinner, on earth.” -preacher John Bunyan (1628–1688 A.D.)

“ Thy people shall be willing in the day of Thy power: in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: Thou hast the dew of Thy youth. ” -P SALM 110:3 [KJV] There is so much of the Lord Jesus in this sweet Psalm, indeed it is altogether so truly a gospel Psalm, that the morning portion, which was a selection from it, cannot be better followed than by taking another verse of it for the evening portion, that both together may furnish out blessed meditations to my soul, in the contemplation of our precious Jesus. Here are views of Jesus, in all His blessed offices, as the Prophet, Priest, and King of His people ; and every verse is more or less descriptive of His glorious person, offices, and character. This precious portion for my evening thoughts contains the promise of Jehovah the Father, in His covenant engagements, that the Redeemer should see the blessed fruits and effects of His undertaking in the hearts and minds of His elect people. “Thy people (saith the Lord...