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

  Gospel Truth from the Philippian  Jailer. Part 1.                                                         D.G Miles McKee In Acts 16, the Philippian jailer cried out to Paul urgently inquiring, “What must I do to be saved.” But the apostle didn’t encourage him to do any work of any kind. Instead, Paul instructed him to simply believe. (See Acts 16:30-34).   Simply believe!   Paul told the same thing to the church at Rome when he penned the words, “ Now to him that works is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt. But to him that works not, but believes on Him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. ” (Romans 4:4-5).  I’m not sure that I know of a more stunning statement in the whole of God's Word than that.  It tells us that, when it comes to this matter of salvation, works and grace ...

"Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience, by the things which He suffered." -Hebrews 5:8 [KJV] My soul! behold what a precious verse of scripture is here! How blessedly doth it set forth thy Redeemer! See here what an example Jesus shews to all His people, and how sweetly accommodating is that example to every case and circumstance, into which any of them can be brought! Surely, if any might have done without going into such a school of suffering, for the purpose of learning, it must have been Jesus; but yet even Jesus would not. And wouldest thou, my soul, after such an illustrious pattern, desire to be excused? Hath not Jesus dignified it, and made it blessed? Oh! the honour of following His steps.   There is another beauty in this scripture. The apostle, in a verse or two preceding, took notice of Jesus in His human nature, that He sought not, as such, the high priest's office uncalled. "Christ (saith He) glorified not Himself, to be made an high priest, ...

"We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." - Acts 14:22 [KJV] What are the promises? Are not all the promises suited to the Lord's poor and needy family? What are the promises of pardon, except to the guilty? What are promises of salvation, except to the lost? What are promises of consolation, except to the afflicted? What are promises of grace, except to those who feel themselves altogether undone? Thus it is "through much tribulation" we enter into the sweetness of the promises. Then they come with power into the heart; they are manifested with life and feeling to the soul; and we begin, like Jeremiah of old, to "find God's word and eat it;" and feel it to be the very joy and rejoicing of our heart.  This is the effect of passing through tribulation in providence and in grace,—of cutting trials; of severe, harassing temptations; of frowns from the world; of blows from sinners and saints; of learning the workings of a hea...

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"A wedding garment."   -Matthew 22:11 [KJV] My soul! Let this evening's meditations be directed to the subject proposed in these few words: "a wedding garment." Very many are the instructions which the passage contains. The Lord Jesus is representing, under the similitude of a wedding feast, the rich provision God the Father had made in the gospel, on account of the marriage of His dear Son with our nature. And most beautiful, indeed, is the representation. For what feast, in point of fulness, richness, and satisfaction, can come up to that which is furnished for the poor, needy, and perishing circumstances of famished and dying sinners? This feast of fat things (as the scripture calls it) is indeed a rich feast, a royal feast, and a true wedding feast: for as Jesus, on whose account it is made, hath united our nature in general to Himself, so hath He united each individual of that nature in particular to Himself, who is truly, and in reality, made a partaker o...

"Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good." - Jeremiah 32:41 [KJV] God rejoices as much in saving your soul as you can rejoice in your soul being saved. Say I "as much?" His joy is infinite, and yours is finite; His the joy of God, and yours but the joy of man. Do you believe that God rejoices to save, delights in saving? Why else should He have given His dear Son? Do the angels rejoice over repenting sinners? Is there no joy then in the bosom of God to save a sinner too? How this takes us up, as it were, into the very realms of bliss, and reveals to us the wondrous character of God in His Trinity of persons and Unity of essence, that there is a rejoicing in the salvation of the Church, so that God Himself, so to speak, is filled with eternal joy in the salvation of His people.   When His dear Son offered Himself as a sacrifice for sin, and thus put away the transgressions and iniquities of the Church by His own blood-shedding and death, overcame death and hel...

"The waters of Jordan." -Joshua 4:23 [KJV] The sacred streams of Jordan, so often and so highly celebrated in the word of God, open a very blessed subject for meditation. Sit down, my soul, by the side of that ancient river, and call to mind the faith exercised on that memorable spot by the multitude of the faithful gone before, who were heirs with thyself of the promises; and see, whether the Holy Ghost will not graciously, this evening, make thy meditation sweet?   Recollect, as thou viewest the hallowed ground, that here it was, in this river, Jesus received the first public testimony from God the Father; and the first open display of the descent of God the Holy Ghost. Here Jehovah began to magnify the Lord Christ. And here, in ages before, had the Lord begun to magnify that memorable type of Jesus, His servant Joshua. And as, from the baptism of Jesus at this sacred river, the Lamb of God opened His divine commission, so here Joshua, His type, commenced His ministry. Fro...