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

Many people think of this free grace of God that it is free because they like to have it. But, it is free because God likes to give it, the freeness is on God's part. The riches of this eternal glory are God's, and it comes to us through a perfect Savior; and what we are called to is, not to the praise or the glory of our faith because we believed, but it is to behold the praise and glory of God shining unto us in the face of Jesus Christ. " God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ " ( II Corinthians 4:6) . That eternal glory given to Him is in bringing many sons to glory to behold His face, to see Him, and be like unto Him, and behold that eternal glory He had with the Father before the worlds were, the Father's delight, the Father's darling, the Father's only begotten Son, by whom He created all things, and for whom He created al...

"The desire of our soul is to T hy Name, and to the remembrance of T hee." -Isaiah 26:8 [KJV] How sweet and expressive is the phrase,  "The desire of our soul!"  How it seems to carry our feelings with it! How it seems to describe the longings and utterings of a soul into which God has breathed the spirit of grace and mercy! "The desire of our soul," —the breathing of our heart, the longing of our inmost being; the cry, the sigh, the panting of our new nature; the heavings, gaspings, lookings, longings, pantings, hungerings, thirstings, and ventings forth of the new man of grace—all are expressed in those sweet and blessed words, "The desire of our soul!" And what a mercy it is, that there should ever be in us "the desire" of a living soul; that though the righteous dealings of God are painful and severe, running contrary to everything nature loves; yet that with all these, there should be dropped into the heart that mercy, love, and...

"If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise." - I Corinthians 3:18 [KJV] The fruit and effect of divine teaching is, to cut in pieces, and root up all our fleshly wisdom, strength, and righteousness. God never means to patch a new piece upon an old garment; He never intends to let our wisdom, our strength, our righteousness have any union with His; it must all be torn to pieces, it must all be plucked up by the roots, that a new wisdom, a new strength, and a new righteousness may arise upon its ruins. But till the Lord is pleased to teach us, we never can part with our own righteousness, never give up our own wisdom, never abandon our own strength. These things are a part and parcel of ourselves, so ingrained within us, so innate in us, so growing with our growth, that we cannot willingly part with an atom of them till the Lord Himself breaks them up...

  Justified from All Things by D.G. Miles Mckee   “Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins; and by H im all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses." -Acts 13: 38-39 [KJV] JUSTIFIED FROM ALL THINGS … what does that mean? That means the believer is perfectly cleared from the guilt of every sin. No charge can be brought against them for when the believer was justified, he was declared righteous, according to the just judgment of God. The law of Moses could never justify us … it could only condemn. But because of the gospel, God now justifies the ungodly. But how can this possible? Is it because of works of righteousness which we have done? Never! It is “through this man,” the Lord Jesus Christ, whom Paul preached as having died and risen again. In Romans 4, God justifies. Whom does He justify? The ungodly that work not. Is there a...

 "The miracle announced by the Gospel is that God comes to the ungodly with a mercy that is righteous, and in spite of all their depravity and rebellion, enables them through faith (on the ground of Christ’s righteousness) to enter into a new and blessed relation with Himself."   -copied

"Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls." - I Peter 1:9 [KJV]   What a blessed, what a glorious end is this; what a prize to win, what a victory to gain, what a crowning consummation of all that faith has believed, hope expected or love embraced! Whatever doubts and fears may have harassed the mind, whatever sore temptations may have distressed the soul, whatever deep afflictions, painful trials, heavy guilt, and hard bondage may have sunk it low, so low sometimes, as if it never would get over them or rise out of them, still that faith, which is God's gift and work, lives through all, and there is a blessed end in store for it—the salvation of the soul.   And O, what does this not comprehend and imply? Think of what salvation is from; think of what salvation is unto. Neither the one nor the other can be fully known on this side of eternity. You may have had some glimpses of hell, you may have had some glimpses of heaven; some taste of ...

"The gospel is no other than a pure promise, a free declaration of peace and pardon, righteousness, life, and salvation to poor sinners by Jesus Christ. The sum and substance of it is, that This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world TO SAVE SINNERS (I Timothy 1:15)." - The Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness Without Works, by John Gill (1697-1771 A.D.)