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

" But to do good and to communicate forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." — Hebrews 13:16 [KJV] Through the artful wiles of Satan, the corrupt reasonings of deceitful nature, and the doctrines of false teachers, disciples are in danger of errors on the right hand and on the left. Because good works do not merit God's favor, and entitle us to His acceptance, therefore, say some, ' We cannot do any thing that is good and well-pleasing in the sight of God .' So if Satan cannot blind us by false hopes and legal confidences, he strives to poison our minds with detestable, licentious notions, dishonorable to Jesus, contrary to faith, subversive of love, and destructive of the holiness and peace of the gospel. But it cannot be so when Jesus is beheld and rejoiced in as our sacrifice and atonement for sin, as our Beloved, in Whom our persons are accepted. "By Him we are made priests unto God." He is our altar, on which our sacr...

  The Day  Zacchaeus   Got Saved. Part 4 by preacher  D.G. Miles McKee   We cannot leave this remarkable story without considering the effect salvation had on Zacchaeus, the worst little man in the city. 6. A Magnificent Marvel Verse 8, “And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.”   This was proof that something had happened to money-hungry Zacchaeus.  He made restitution.  However, making restitution wasn’t what saved him, but it demonstrated that he had been saved and turned around.  Get this clear, he was saved before he made restitution and the making of restitution didn’t add anything to his salvation.   First, he promised to give half of all he owned to the poor! Remember, that was the very stumbling block which the rich young ruler tripped over (see Matthew 19:16-30).  ...

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" While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." — Genesis 8:22 [KJV] "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." — 1 Timothy 4:8 . By faith we view the declarations of Jehovah as the blessings of a father's love. The returning seasons, the revolving periods of time declare the glory of our heavenly Father; while the Christian meditates upon and gratitude inspires his heart for the innumerable blessings of time, yet far nobler subjects demand the contemplation of his soul. Happy for us, when temporal blessings are enjoyed as covenant mercies, and are sanctified to us in Christ Jesus. We see and adore the sovereignty of God in appointing times and seasons. The immutability of his will is the law by which they are governed. When the fixed period shall come, all nature shall be reduced to its primitive n...

" I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me." — Romans 7:21 [KJV] The heathens in their sacrifices were wont to cry out, 'Keep at a distance, O ye profane:' but they withheld not their offerings, lest the unhallowed should be the more polluted, or their sacrifices be defiled by them. For the godly consolation, edification, and establishment of sanctified souls, it seemed meet for the spirit of wisdom that the apostle Paul should leave his experience in this epistle to the Romans. Here he confesses himself a poor sinner, yet a holy and happy believer in Jesus. Hereby to many precious souls Jesus hath been made more infinitely precious, while sin has been viewed as more exceeding sinful, and themselves made to sink lower in humility at the feet of sovereign grace. Let those who dare advert to this blessed testimony for contrary purposes, remember the Judge is at the door. Shortly they must account, if they turn the food of God...

" And they said one to another, Did not our hearts burn within us, while He talked with us by the way, and while He opened to us the scriptures ?" — Luke 24:32 [KJV] When the fire of divine love burns in the heart, disciples cannot refrain speaking of it to each other. But how transient are the frames of God's dearest children! Too apt are the strongest believers to live upon sense and feeling, instead of faith and promises. The former may, and often doth fail in enjoyment, but the latter is founded upon the firm immutable foundation of the God of truth, therefore is sure and infallible. These disciples were just before in dejection and despondency. The time was come for resurrection-comfort, but their Lord not appearing as they expected, they were sad. Jesus was with them, but they knew Him not. He upbraids; "O fools, and slow of heart to believe all the prophets have spoken!" Then He expounds the scriptures concerning Himself. Presently the f...

" That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge, to lay hold upon the hope set before us." — Hebrews 6:18 [KJV] It is the glory of the gospel that it reveals glad tidings to hopeless, helpless sinners. It finds nothing in us to entitle us to the favor of God: but it brings all hope and consolation to the soul, founded upon the most absolute promises, and the strongest assurance of an immutable God. As verily as it is impossible for the God of truth to lie or forswear Himself, so is it impossible for any of the heirs of promise to perish. Such is the blessed hope before us. Happy souls, who have fled to Jesus for refuge, and have laid hold of this hope! Henceforward nothing but consolation, strong consolation, ariseth to such poor sinners from the word of truth. This hope can never fail them; whatever within or without fluctuates or changes, this never can. This hope is ever...