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

The Non-Gospel ‘Gospel Invitation’ by D.G. Miles McKee Every day, sincere, well-meaning Christians unwittingly plunder the gospel. We see this especially in the way they often tell the non-Christian how to be saved. The terms they use, in the context of the Finished Work, demand or imply that human works are a part of the plan of salvation! But works are no part of salvation. Biblical salvation is discovered wholly in the Lord Christ. It is “ Not of works , lest any man should boast” [EPHESIANS 2:9 ] . The following are a few of the terms commonly mis-used in an evangelistic framework. They are, in the context of gospel preaching, A nti - G ospel. Some of these terms are expressions which may be helpful as they relate to the Christian life … but not to salvation by grace . To add these requirements to the unsaved, joins self-effort to salvation [EPHESIANS 2:8-9 ] . However, we must never look to ourselves to find reasons for God's Grace. Here then are a few terms to ...

“ By the grace of God I believe the gospel of God’s sovereign grace, and I have been a believer for many years, but I still remain, in myself, a helpless sinner and in my flesh dwells no good thing. And yet, I am not filled with despair for I have a blessed Redeemer who ever lives for me in glory. In Him I have no sin, my conscience has no sting of guilt and I have no fear of condemnation. Without a doubt, I remain a sinner as touching this present life, but "THE LORD MY RIGHTEOUSNESS" is Jesus Christ, and He is my Prophet, High Priest and King.” -copied

"The just shall live by faith." -R OMANS 1:17 [KJV] A life of faith in Christ is as necessary to our present and experimental salvation as His death upon the cross was to our past and actual salvation. If you are alive to what you are as a poor fallen sinner, you see yourself surrounded by enemies, temptations, sins, and snares; and you feel yourself utterly defenceless, as weak as water, without any strength to stand against them. Pressed down by the weight of unbelief, you see a mountain of difficulty before your eyes, sometimes in providence and sometimes in grace. You find, too, that your heart is a cage of unclean birds, and that in you, that is, in your flesh, there dwelleth no good thing; neither will nor power have you in yourself to fight or flee. How then shall this mountain become a plain? How shall you escape the snares and temptations spread in your path? How shall you get the better of all your enemies, external, internal, infernal, and reach heaven'...

"The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry. The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth." - P SALM 34:15-16 [KJV]

"Jesus saith, Go to M y brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto M y Father, and your Father; and to M y God, and your God ." -J OHN 20:17 [KJV] Why your Father? Because My Father . Why your God? Because My God . As His only-begotten Son from all eternity, God was the God of our Lord Jesus Christ; as the Father's messenger and servant, doing His will upon earth, even in His lowest humiliation, God was His God; and now that He is risen from the dead and gone up on high to be the great High Priest over the house of God, now that He is entered into His glory and ever lives to make intercession for us, God is still His God. This view of Jesus is most strengthening and encouraging to faith. The great and glorious God, the great self-existent I AM, the God in whom we live and move and have our being, the God before whom we stand with all we are and have, the God against and before whom we have so deeply and dreadfully sinned—this great and glorious God is "the ...

The longer I live, the more I feel that if there were one thing left undone, if the devil were not conquered, sin not expiated, justice not satisfied, the law not honored and magnified, death not overcome, and every burden not carried, I should not have a ray of hope. I used to think I saw this as clear as the noon day thirty or forty years ago; but I saw it very differently then to what I see now; for I see and feel now that if one hair-breadth is left for me to do to merit heaven, or bring as a plea before God, I am undone for ever and ever. But on the Mount of Calvary, the Lord Jesus Christ undertook the cause of His people; and there is not a jot nor a tittle that He left undone, but "by one offering HE PERFECTED FOR EVER them that are sanctified," and "there is therefore now NO CONDEMNATION to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Here is complete perfection. "SAVED IN THE L ORD WITH AN EVERLASTING SA...

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to H is abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." -I PETER 1:3 [KJV] The resurrection of Jesus Christ was God's grand attestation to the truth of His divine mission and Sonship, for by it He was "declared to be the Son of God with power." It therefore set a divine stamp upon His sacrifice, bloodshedding, and death, shewed God's acceptance of His offering, and that sin was thus for ever put away. Now, just think what would have been the dreadful consequences if Christ had not been raised from the dead, or if we had no infallible proofs [ A CTS 1:3 ] of His resurrection. There would have been, there could have been no forgiveness of sin [I CORINTHIANS 15:17 ] ; and therefore, when the conscience became awakened to a sense of guilt and condemnation, there could have been nothing before it but black and gloomy despa...