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

" By grace ye are saved." —Ephesians 2:5 [KJV] O thou man of God, "let not this truth forsake thee; bind it about thy neck, write it upon the table of thine heart; it shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones." — Proverbs 3:3, 8 . In the faith of this, thou wilt live in love and gratitude to God, in cheerful obedience to His sovereign will, and in confident hope and earnest expectation of eternal glory. While thou wilt be daily dying to every carnal hope and legal confidence, by the atonement and righteousness of Jesus, His grace will be all thy plea, all thy hope, and all thy glorying. Hereby thou wilt be kept humble, and walk safely. That "the foot of pride prevail not against thee," is a happy part of this glorious salvation, so as to submit to receive it as entirely of grace, free favor, unconditional election, unmerited love, "according to the good pleasure of the will of God the Father." — Ephesians 1:5 . It is SOV...

" In the L ORD have I righteousness and strength." — Isaiah 45:24 [KJV] To trust in our own righteousness, and to glory in our own strength, is natural to us all. But when a poor sinner "knows himself, even as he is known of the Lord," he thinks otherwise. When he becomes a follower of the Lamb, he learns the language of Canaan, and says, "I have no confidence in the flesh." I subscribe with my whole heart to this confession of faith, "In the L ORD have I righteousness and strength." That the Lord Jehovah is a God of righteousness, and that He is almighty in strength, who will dare deny? But by faith we speak the most comfortable knowledge of covenant grace: I, a poor sinner, who am without strength, destitute of righteousness in myself, have both strength and righteousness in Jehovah . What I am, a sinner by nature and practice, that Jesus became by imputation. What Jesus is in His nature, and by His life, perfectly RIGHTEOUS, ...

" These things have I written unto you, that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." — 1 John 5:13 [KJV] Little Benjamin was as dear to his father Jacob as his elder brethren. The child Samuel was as truly a priest to the Lord as old Eli. So the feeblest lamb in the flock of Jesus, though ever so weak in faith and knowledge, yet is equally dear to the Father as the strongest believer—loved with the same everlasting love—alike interested in the salvation of Jesus— and as certainly an heir of eternal life. Many weak children are ready to own this; but they doubt in their minds, and suspect in their hearts, not happily knowing, nor being comfortably assured of their own interest in the salvation of Jesus. There were such in the apostle's days; therefore the Comforter inspires the beloved John to write to them. He condescends to their weakness of knowledge and co...

Most important Gospel sermon: please forward to everyone you know. The Time is Short, dear friends. " Entering into the Kingdom of Heaven ," (parts I & II) re: the warning message of our LORD JESUS Christ in Matthew ch. 7, vss. 21-23 [KJV]. Bottom Line? trust Christ JESUS alone for your salvation; by His shed blood that's washed our sins away and that He has clothed us with the garments of Salvation: robed in His perfect robe of pure, eternal righteousness! Sent with love. The LORD JESUS be magnified!  Sermon Audio link: https://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?speakerWithinSource=&subsetCat=&subsetItem=&mediatype=&includekeywords=&exactverse=&keyword=Jim_Byrd&keyworddesc=Jim+Byrd&currsection=&AudioOnly=false&SpeakerOnly=true&keywordwithin=Entering++the+kingdom+of+heaven&x=2&y=6  

" I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, such an one caught up to the third heaven." — II Corinthians 12:2 [KJV] Visions, manifestations, raptures and ecstacies of soul, though even from God Himself, (which there is every good reason to suspect, unless they sink the soul in humility, and excite such love to Jesus as is founded in knowledge and productive of obedience), are not to be gloried of. St. Paul says, it is not expedient for ME to glory. I know the danger, I fear the evil of it; from the pride and treachery of my nature. It tends to exalt one above measure; and to make others think more highly of one than they ought to think. Therefore, on these accounts glorying of these things is to be avoided. Indeed the cause of truth may require it, and the glory of God may be promoted by it. Though on these accounts it may be expedient to glory; yet it is not expedient for the Christian's own sake to do it. So Paul declared. Yet he did glory; for necess...

  God’s Blood by preacher D.G. Miles McKee   “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood.” Acts 20:28.   Since when we must ask, does God have blood?  Surely God is a Spirit and a Spirit does not have blood?  Exactly right! But that does not mean God does not have blood.  Jesus Christ, the man, had blood which blood is expressly called ‘God’s blood’ proving once more that Jesus is God.    Let me say the same thing another way: since this scripture plainly tells us that God purchased the Church with His own blood and we know that it was Christ Jesus who shed His blood for the purchase, then we must conclude once more that Jesus Christ is God.   To know that He who hung upon the cross was our Lord and God must surely move us to a life of dedication to His plans and purposes. It is this knowle...

" The L ORD God is a sun and shield: the L ORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly." —Psalm 84:11 [KJV] Vulgar minds have but very contracted ideas of the magnitude of that glorious luminary, the sun. The most knowing of the children of men, form but very inadequate notions of the nature and properties of that grand source of light and heat. We daily see his power and feel his influence. This he incessantly sheds upon the whole creation FREELY. How vain and arrogant would he be deemed, who should pretend he could procure the cheering light and comforting warmth of the sun! Dwells there, in the breast of man, a thought, that he can procure the light of grace; or by his doings entitle himself to the comforts of salvation from Jehovah? Yes: so vain, so arrogant is that vile worm, that weak creature, proud, fallen man. By sin how stript of all but shame! by pride, he "opposeth and exalteth himself above all...