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

  "Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." -Micah 7:19 [KJV] When God takes all our iniquities with His own hand, and casts them with His own arm into the depths of the sea, they will never come out of those depths to witness against the family of God in the great and terrible day. Your sins now may seem to be all alive in your breast, and every one of them to bring accusation upon accusation against you. This sin is crying out for vengeance, and that for punishment. This slip, this fall, this backsliding, this foolish word, this wrong action, are all testifying against you in the court of conscience. Do what you may, be where you may, live how you may, watch and pray how you may, keep silent and separate from the world or even from your own family how you may, sin still moves, lives, acts, works, and often brings you into guilt and bondage. But if God has had mercy upon us, He has cast all our sins with His own hands into the depths of the sea, and t...

Christ did not die for sinners so that God would be merciful and love us. Rather, it was because the Lord was merciful and because He loved us that Christ was sent to save us from our sins. "God commendeth His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8) . "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His son to be the propitiation for our sins" (1 John 4:10) . God’s love for His people did not commence with the death of Christ; the death of Christ is the result of God’s everlasting love for His chosen people. -preacher Jim Byrd https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=13thstbaptist

  A Little to a Lot by D. G. Miles McKee   The Lord can do a lot with a little. Just consider how in John 6:1-14 the Lord was given a little food ( 5 loaves and 2 fish ) and turned it into a feast.  Little was placed in hands of the Lord and He made it a lot.  Isn’t that just like Jesus? I recently read of how an evangelist was ministering many years ago in the Lake District of England.  There he met an 80-year-old lady who told him how her shop had come into being. It all started in her Sunday school class when, one day, one of her young students came to her after class with a request. He held up a shining sixpence and said, “Please, Mrs. Cameron, will you give this sixpence to Jesus?” Startled, she almost told the child she couldn’t do that, but upon her shoulder she felt the restraining hand of the Lord who seemed to direct her, “Take it.” “Alright,” Mrs. Cameron told the boy, “I’ll give it to Jesus.” That night she held up the sixpence and prayed, “L...

Before the throne of God above, I have a strong, a perfect plea; The Great High Priest, whose name is love, Will ever live and plead for me. My name is graven on His hands; My name is written on His heart; I know that while in heaven He reigns, No tongue can bid me to depart. Because the sinless Saviour died, My sinful soul is counted Free; For God, the Just, is satisfied To look on Him and pardon me. Behold Him there, the worthy Lamb! My perfect, spotless righteousness, The great unchangeable "I AM," The KING of glory and of grace. Tune: “Doxology”

"For it became H im, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." -Hebrews 2:10 [KJV] When, with believing eyes, we can view God the Son as the eternal salvation of all whom the Father gave unto Him; when we can see Him, by the eye of faith, coming down into this lower world, taking our nature into union with His own Divine Person; when, by faith, we can accompany the Man of Sorrows into the gloomy garden of Gethsemane, or behold Him groaning, bleeding, and dying on the cross, an object of ignominy and shame, and believe that in this way, and this alone, salvation could be wrought out, O, what a view it gives us of the demerit and awful nature of sin, that nothing short of the incarnation of God's only begotten Son, nothing short of such a tremendous sacrifice could put away sin, and bring the elect back unto God!   On the one hand, as we take a glance at the...

Men speak of what they are worth, and they immediately think of their earthly pedigree or possessions of money, land, stocks, bonds, gold, silver, etc. This is such a low estimate of life and reflects only the depravity of our hearts. The worth and value of your life cannot be measured by what you possess but only by what possesses you. If you own yourself, your life measures up to selfishness. If the world owns you, your life measures up to worldliness. If other people own you, your life measures up to slavery. However, if Christ owns you - your life, your heart, your mind, soul, and body, your possessions which are really not your own - then your life measures up to a life lived for the glory of God in Christ. Those who belong to Christ were BOUGHT WITH A PRICE. Christ has redeemed His people and bought them with His own precious blood. He has justified them by His blood and brought them into His family forever and ever. Those who belong to Christ are to spend their lives glorify...

"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit." -Philemon vs. 25 [KJV] It is the regenerating breath of the Lord Jesus Christ which makes the soul alive unto Himself. This is manifest from His own language: "It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life" (John 6:63) . Then for the first time "the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with our spirit." For you will observe that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is not with our carnal mind: that ever remains the same, a body of sin and death, flesh, corrupt flesh, "in which dwelleth no good thing," and therefore not the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.   His grace is with our spirit, that "new man" of which we read that "it is after God, [that is, after the image of God] created in righteousness and true holiness." This is called our "spirit," because it is born of the ...