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

"He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied." -Isaiah 53:11 [KJV] Is not this covenant promise of thy faithful God and Father peculiarly suited, my soul, for thine evening meditation, after the subject of the morning, in contemplating the first cry of Jesus upon the cross: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do?" And was not the cry answered in the case of the Jerusalem sinners at the day of Pentecost, soon after, when, under the apostle Peter's sermon, they were pricked to the heart, and cried out, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?" Acts 2:37.   Ponder over the solemn expression, the travail of the Redeemer's soul. Did Jesus really sustain in soul somewhat like those throes of nature with which a woman is exercised in her hour of extremity? Did He travail in birth for His redeemed?—Pause, my soul, and very solemnly consider the subject. If the eighteenth Psalm be supposed to contain prophetical allusions to...

"Heal me, O L ORD , and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for Thou art my praise."  - Jeremiah 17:14 [KJV] If we feel that we have ruined our own souls, that no human arm can save us, that we cannot bring salvation into our own consciences, nor of ourselves see any beauty, glory, sweetness, or suitability in the Lord Jesus Christ, and yet are striving with prayer and supplication to touch the hem of His garment, to taste the sweetness of His dying love, to feel the efficacy of His atoning blood, to be wrapped up in His glorious robe of righteousness, and to know Him in the sweet manifestations of His grace, we too can say, "Save me, and I shall be saved."  Here is this sin! save me from it: here is this snare! break it to pieces; here is this lust! Lord, subdue it; here is this temptation! deliver me out of it; here is my proud heart! Lord, humble it; my unbelieving heart! take it away, and give me faith; give me submission to Thy mind and will; take...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (08-10APR22) 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 - from our sins and from Hell: OUR GREAT HIGH PRIEST Oh, what a Saviour is ours! The Almighty God; yet the tender Man. One who is as far above us in His original nature and present glory as the heavens are above the earth; yet One who can be “ touched with the feeling of our infirmities.” One who is the Creator of the universe; yet One who became man, lived His life on the same plane ours is lived, passed through the same trials we experience, and suffered not only as we do, but far more acutely. How well-fitted is such a One to be our Great High Priest! How self-sufficient He is to supply our every need! - preacher A rthur W. Pink "Storm Warning: Prove All Things" is a fifte...

  "And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And He was numbered with the transgressors ."   -Mark 15:28 [KJV] Look up, my soul, to the cross, and behold thy Lord hanging with two thieves; yea, in the middle of them, as if the greatest malefactor of the three; and, what is the most awful part of the subject, not only was He thus considered by the Jewish rabble, but as the sinner's representative, Jesus was thus beheld in Jehovah's view; "numbered with the transgressors," and virtually, the great Surety and Sponsor of them all. Pause, my soul, as thou readest this scripture, and as thou beholdest it fulfilled on the cross. Will it not undeniably follow, that if Christ was so reckoned, and so numbered, then must it have been, not for Himself, for He had no sin, but for His people; and if made sin and a curse, surely He hath taken away both sin and the curse, by the sacrifice of Himself, that they might be made the righteousness of God in Him?   There is o...

"I will be as the dew unto Israel."   - Hosea 14:5 [KJV] Sometimes the Lord, without applying His word with any very great and distinguishing power to the heart, makes  His truth to drop  with a measure of sweetness into the soul. This is as rain or dew, according to His own gracious declaration, "My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall distil as the dew" (Deuteronomy 32:2). The dropping, then, of His doctrine, or, as the word means, His "teaching," as rain, and the distilling of His gracious speech as dew, kindle in the soul a love of the truth, and wherever this is felt there is salvation, for we read of those who perish that "they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved" (II Thessalonians 2:10).   There is a receiving of the truth, and a receiving of the love of the truth. These two things widely differ. To receive the truth will not necessarily save; for many receive the truth who never receive the love of th...

The Bringer of Salvation by D.G. Miles McKee.   See Titus 2:11 regarding the Grace of God that brings Salvation .  In Titus 2:11 we see that grace, not Law, brings salvation.  I love the word “brings” in this verse.  God did not merely send salvation, He brought it.   He didn't entrust the bringing of salvation to anyone other than Himself.  He by-passed the angels and archangels refusing to use them as His messengers in this matter.  I think I see Him talking to Gabriel and saying, “Gabriel, you are a trustworthy servant, both faithful and true, but I cannot send salvation with you.  Furthermore, faithful as they are, I must also bypass the seraphim and cherubim and every heavenly being for I must, by Myself, bring salvation to My people.”   Consider Him, stepping out of eternity and into time and descending to earth.  He came down to rescue us.   Down, down, down He descends to fertilize the Virgin’s womb.  Down, down He...

"Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man ."   -John 19:5 [KJV] My soul, thou art engaged in solemn subjects at this season, both night and morning; and here is one as solemn as any; thy Jesus coming forth in His coronation robes! Yes! For He, and He alone, is the Prince of sufferers, as the Prince of His people. Many of His dear children have been beset with thorns; and to many, indeed to all more or less, the Lord hedgeth up their way with thorns. But none but the ever blessed Jesus was crowned with thorns. Now, my soul, ponder well the solemn subject. And Oh! that God the Holy Ghost may open all the glories of it to thy view.   And first, look at thy Jesus, crowned with thorns. None but the Lord Jesus could properly wear this crown; because the curse pronounced by God at the fall, of thorns being brought forth to the man, could belong to none but Him, the God-man Christ Jesus. This curse contained a...