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

"Because of the savour of Thy good ointments, Thy name is as ointment poured forth." - Song of Solomon 1:3  [KJV] Why, my Lord, is Thy name so truly blessed, but because Thou hast so endeared it to Thy redeemed, by every tie which can gain the affections. Didst Thou, even before I had being, enter into suretyship engagements for me, that Thou wouldest redeem me when fallen, that Thou wouldest take my nature, live for me, die for me, become a sacrifice for me, shed Thy blood for me, wash me in Thy blood, clothe me with Thy righteousness, justify me before God and Thy Father, become my Advocate, High Priest, Intercessor, betroth me to Thyself here in grace, and everlastingly unite me to Thyself in glory hereafter?   D idst Thou do all this, and art Thou still doing it, making my cause Thine own, and following me with love, and grace, and mercy, every day, and all day, and wilt never Thou leave me nor forsake me? And must not Thy name be as ointment poured forth? Can there be a...

The Greatest Speech God Ever Made Part 2 by D. G. Miles McKee (For Part 1, see last week’s Wednesday Word).   Before we consider Isaiah 53:1-7, let’s stir up our pure minds by way of remembrance and think of John 12:41.  There we are told that the enthroned King of Isaiah 6 is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ.  Now, Isaiah realizes that the despised sufferer in Isaiah 53 is the very same person he had encountered in Isaiah 6 … and he is stunned! You can tell by the way Isaiah is writing chapter 53 that he is living in the events and vividly seeing them.  He is writing with a sense of shock. The One whom he sees as despised, deserted and dying in agonizing pain is the same One he saw high and lifted up in overpowering splendor. Can we be unmoved when we read this passage? Remember how in Mark 14:33 when Christ came near to Gethsemane the pressure of our sins intensified into a crushing horror.  He was ‘sore amazed and very heavy.’ Literally, He was astounde...

Friends, Hope this finds y'all well and in good health. Please be advised that this Friday evening there'll be a fifteen-minute Gospel message sent out via WWCR on World Band/Short-Wave radio at 3.215 MHz (3215 KHz) called, " Storm Warning: Prove All Things "  commencing at 2115 Hours ( 9:15 PM) Central Time . The goal is to exalt Christ JESUS and to encourage His people and to warn all hands to flee to Him immediately. If you don't have a Short-Wave radio you can still listen online by going to  https://wwcr.com/  a couple minutes prior to the broadcast and then on the left side of their page, under Main Menu, click on   " Listen Online ."   Then you'll see   "WWCR-1."   Underneath that click on either   "Windows Media Player"   or   "MP3 Players." We ain't selling nothing, just pointing folks to Christ our great salvation and blessed hope. Cheers, friends. The LORD JESUS be magnified!

"And they sought Him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance, and found Him not." -Luke 2:44, 45 [KJV]   May we not gather a lesson of sweet instruction from the anxious and fruitless search the parents made for Jesus in the days of His flesh? What kinsfolks and acquaintances shall we now search among for the Saviour? My soul, how little of Jesus is to be found in this Christless generation! What parlour conversation makes mention of His name? Is it not plain and evident, from the general, nay almost universal silence observed in all companies concerning His name, and offices, and characters, and relations, that Christ is not there?       Shall we seek Him among the professors of the gospel? Who are they that honour Jesus? Not they who deny His Godhead; not they who deny the influences of His Holy Spirit; not they who set up their own righteousness as part, or the whole of their justification before God. Jesus is not in that house, in that family, in that...

"Carry down the man a present." - Genesis 43:11 [KJV]      Ah, poor Jacob, how unconscious wert thou that this man, the governor of Egypt, was so near and dear to thee, and that his bowels yearned to tell thee how much he loved thee. And O ye sons of Israel, who would have had power to convince you while you were bowing down before Joseph under the dreadful apprehensions which agitated your minds, and he was assuming a voice of displeasure, that this very man was your brother? My soul, and what was all this, heightened to the greatest possible degree in the real love and affection of Joseph towards his family, compared to that love of Jesus which passeth knowledge? Jesus is thy brother, and he is the governor, not of Egypt only, but of heaven and earth. The famine, it is true, is sore in the land, and to Him thou must go for sustenance, or thou wilt perish for ever. But wilt thou carry down The Man a present? My soul, what hast thou to carry? Not thy duties, nor thy pr...

"And for this cause He is the Mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth" -Hebrews 9:15-17 [KJV] Every year a list is published with the names of people who stand to inherit money, land or other possessions. However, because they cannot be located or notified, their inheritance goes unclaimed. Sometimes these people are the legal beneficiaries of vast sums of money yet many will never receive that which is rightfully theirs simply because their whereabouts is unknown. The Lord Jesus Christ, in old eternity, wrote His last will and testament, and it is called the Covenant of Grace. In that legal, binding agree...

"The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry." - Psalm 34:15 [KJV] My soul, never more allow thyself to suppose that thou art overlooked or forgotten amidst the immensity of God's works. Is it not the province of a father to attend to the wants of his children? And will not God regard His own, that cry night and day unto Him, though He bear long with them? This was the very argument of our Redeemer. Do you, saith Jesus, "that are evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children; and shall not your heavenly Father give His Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?" But, my soul, while thou art taking comfort from this view of divine love, take with thee another sweet thought from this precious verse of scripture.     Whose eyes are thus upon thee, and whose ears are thus open to thy cries, but those of the Lord Jesus? Oh how sweet the thought, that by reason of the Son of God, as Christ, being in our nature, and He having taken...