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

"There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old, but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed." -Isaiah 65:20  [KJV] My soul, contemplate this morning the auspicious and blessed effects brought into the circumstances of mankind by the gospel. Not only shall there be new heavens, and a new earth, but new hearts, new minds, new dispositions to enjoy them. "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away, and all things are become new." And among the many blessed changes that shall take place in consequence of Jesus's salvation, all untimely deaths are done away. Indeed, there can be no such thing as an untimely death to those who are in Christ: for a voice from heaven pronounces all blessed that die in the Lord. A child new born, if born also in Christ, an 'infant of a day, if a gracious day, is as ripe for glory as if an hund...

"And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant." -Exodus 2:24  [KJV] This is a precious scripture. My soul, put a note upon it. No sigh, no groan, no tear of God's people can pass unobserved. He putteth the tears of His people in His bottle. Surely then He can never overlook what gives vent to those tears, the sorrows of the soul. Our spiritual afflictions Jesus knows, and numbers all. How sweet the thought! the Spirit maketh intercession for the saints with the groanings which they cannot utter. And do, my soul, observe the cause of deliverance. Not our sighs, nor our groanings, nor our brokenness of heart; not these, for what benefit can these render to an holy God? But God hath respect in all to His own everlasting covenant. Yes, Jesus is the all in all of the covenant. God the Father hath respect to Him. For His sake, for His righteousness, for His atoning blood, the groanings of His people find audience at the mercy-seat and redress. And God hath res...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (15-17OCT21) Heads-Up --- Please find enclosed encouragement in SO GREAT SALVATION by the perfect and finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ in saving poor, needy and wretched sinners by His sovereign free grace -Almighty God's unmerited favor to save us from our sins and from Hell: “Did Christ Die For Me?” Have you ever struggled with thoughts and questions such as these? – “I know that all for whom Christ died and arose again SHALL BE SAVED. I am confident that Christ, by His blood, put away all the sins of all for whom He died. I am also confident that all for whom He died stand justified before God as they have HIS righteousness imputed (charged) to their account. What I am concerned about, even anxious about is this – Did He die for me? There are many who claim Christ died for them, and there are many who trust in a false Christ. Did Christ die for me? Am I truly saved?” The answer is simply this – The death of Christ insured and...

"Jesus made a surety." -Hebrews 7:22  [KJV] My soul, look at Jesus as a Surety, and as "made the Surety" this morning! Blessed view, if so be the Holy Ghost will enlighten thine eyes to see Him under all these characters. First; a Surety. We are all ruined by a debt incapable of ever being paid by any, or by all, the fallen sons of Adam. Jesus steps in, becomes a Surety for our debt, and pays the whole by His obedience and death. But we owe a duty also, as well as a debt. Jesus becomes here again the Surety. He will put His Spirit in us, and we shall live. He becomes also a Surety for promises, that all God hath promised for His sake, shall be fulfilled in Him, and in us for Him. But He is not only a Surety, but made a Surety; for the Father's name, and the Father's authority, is in Him.     It is God the Father which saith, I have given Him for a covenant. Precious thought for faith to act upon! And, my soul, is not Jesus thy Surety? Yes, if while the Fath...

More Light from Old Windows . by D.G. Miles McKee It is an old story, but for some of us it will always be new. It’s the story of how Jesus died for His people.  It’s the story of how He died for me.  Is it your story too? In heaven they sing about this story as they proclaim, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were slain, and have redeemed us to God by your blood,” (Revelation 5:9). Redeemed by blood … His blood … what a stunning truth!  And Peter tells us that it is precious blood (1 Peter 1:18-19).  The blood is precious to the heart of God and is precious to every believer. In the gospels, God gives us 4 different accounts of the death of the Lord Jesus.  Once  we are told the story of Creation. Twice  we are told the account of Jesus' birth. But God, not wishing us to miss anything, gives  4 accounts  of Christ’s death.  When Jesus died, the religious rulers had their way, but little did old Joe Caiaphas...

"And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land." -Micah 5:5 [KJV] What man is this but the Glory-man, the Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus? And what peace, when all enemies oppose the soul, but peace in the blood of His cross? Yes, my soul, Jesus is the wonderful man, who alone could make thy peace. "For as it was by one man's disobedience many were made sinners; so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous." And none but one in our own nature could redeem that nature; for the right of redemption belonged only to Him, Leviticus 25:25. And none but one in our nature could atone, could bleed, could die, and rise again, that He might be the Judge, both of the dead and living.     Oh precious Jesus, how suited wert Thou by the union of Thy two natures, as God and man, and God-man, both in one, to be our glorious Mediator, and to be the LORD our Righteousness! Yes, precious Lord, God hath said ...

"He wakeneth morning by morning: He wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned." -Isaiah 50:4  [KJV] Who is this but Jesus in His human nature, of whom the prophet speaks? Eminently to Him doth it refer, to whom was given the tongue of the learned, that he might know how to speak a word to him that is weary. Precious Lord, it is indeed Thy province, and Thine only, to speak a word to weary souls, and to be the rest wherewith Thou causeth the weary to rest, and to be their refreshing. Not only to give them rest, but Thyself to be their rest. Not only to give them salvation, but Thyself to be their salvation.—But, blessed Lord! may not a poor soul like myself say of Thee also, that Thou wakenest me morning by morning?— for who is it but Jesus, that, by the sweet influences of the Spirit, wakens His people morning by morning, and openeth the ear to hear, and the eye to see, and the heart.   Feel the blessed tokens of His coming? Have I not found Thee, Lord, wakening my soul somet...