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

" Great peace have they which love Thy law: and nothing shall offend them." — Psalm 119:165 [KJV] All inward peace and tranquility of mind arise from the knowledge and love of the law of the Lord. But hath not the apostle told us, "the law worketh wrath?" — Romans 4:15 . Have not believers experienced a sense of wrath in the conscience, through "the knowledge of sin by the law?" Yes, verily. But this law, the moral law, is subservient to the everlasting law of love, the eternal covenant of grace and peace ; therefore in time "it was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to Whom the promise was made;" even Jesus, the Seed of the woman, in Whom the law of peace and salvation centered... Of Whom the ceremonial law was a shadow; and by Whose holy life, the moral law received perfect obedience to all its demands, and a full satisfaction for all its curses and penalties by His sin-atoning sacrifice. This eternal law, ...

Bathed in the Gospel: Part II by D. G. Miles McKee Popular as they are in some quarters, the believer has no need to be taught techniques of spiritual self-crucifixion. Why not?   Because self-crucifixion is both spiritually and physically impossible!  Try physical crucifixion on a cross and see for yourself.  You can hammer the nails into your feet and then maybe, just maybe, into one of your hands, but you can’t hammer the last nail into the remaining hand.  Likewise, self-imposed spiritual crucifixion is a myth! With gospel faith, however, techniques of spiritual self-crucifixion are done away with because, as a result of the gospel, we are already reduced to our proper place of brokenness and dependency.     Jesus taught that true discipleship was to deny self, take up our cross and follow Him (Matthew 16:24). This is exactly what happens when we receive salvation by faith alone. Faith agrees with and embraces God’s verdict that we...

" Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear." — I Peter 3:15 [KJV] When the Lord Jesus is the glory of the soul, it is the soul's glory to sanctify Him, and Him only. How joyful to have one's heart detached from every other object and hope, and its whole delight to glorify our Saviour! How ravishing to dwell on the wonders of His love, the riches of His grace, the greatness of His sufferings, the fulness of His redemption, the perfection of His righteousness, the prevalency of His intercession, and all issuing in the eternal life of such vile sinful wretches as we are!  Verily, under such views, most cheerfully does the believer sanctify the Lord Immanuel in his heart. Hence, how powerful is his soul animated with holy boldness against the fear of man! Yea, inflamed with love to the truth, how ready to give a reason of his hope! Perhap...

" Let us run with patience the race set before us." — Hebrews 12:1 [KJV] A lively faith begets a cheerful heart. A joyful hope makes a resigned soul. An humble mind produceth a patient spirit. So we run with pleasure our short race, "looking unto Jesus." But alas! shame to us, there is a sin which easily besets us and which draws a train of burdens and distresses along with it. Why are poor disciples' minds harassed by frequent murmurings and impatience? Why their tempers soured with evil passions, and they utter hasty, angry, unbecoming speeches? Verily, UNBELIEF is the cause of all this.  Their minds are clouded; they do not see Jesus; they do not consider Jesus as seeing them; they do not look to Jesus for patience: hence Satan gets an advantage over them: pride begets impatience of spirit. Then, with fretful Jonah they cry out, "I do well to be angry." Well, soul, and how do you find your mind after doing thus well? what is the fram...

" And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?" —II Kings 8:13 [KJV] O, the treachery of the human heart! both scripture and experience prove this melancholy truth, that it is "deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." Who can fathom the depths of its deceits? who can understand the misery of iniquity which lies concealed in the nature of sinful man? Alas! presumptuous confidence that our nature is not so totally corrupt and abominable, too, too oft deceives and betrays even the children of God. This wretch Hazael, who had premeditated rebellion and murder in his heart, yet starts at the prediction of these crimes which as yet had no real existence.  Doubtless he thought Elisha judged very hard of him; he could almost stare the prophet out of countenance; and, as though he charged him with degrading the dignity of his human nature, he demands whether he looked on him no better than an unclean beast, a...

" And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on My name, and I will hear them: I will say it is My people; and they shall say, the L ORD is my God." — Zechariah 13:9 [KJV] O, Give me comforts or I die, saith the soul! for surely was I a child of God, I should not be thus tried, afflicted, and distressed. Nay, saith the Saviour, "ye know not what ye ask." Dost thou forget the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children? "My son despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him." — Hebrews 12:5 .  Did I bid Thee believe on me? Believe also My words: "it is through much tribulation thou must enter My kingdom." — Acts 14:22 . This profitable lesson, though grievous to the flesh, must be learned. Like Peter, we pray to be excused being washed by our Lord. But we consider not His love, nor ou...

" God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." — Galatians 6:14 [KJV] Satan is very busy to hinder the Christian's glorying in Jesus ONLY. As an adversary to the truth, he objects, by the men of the world, and it is frequently suggested to the believer's mind, "Jesus is ever uppermost in your heart and tongue; you ascribe no glory to God the Father, and to the Holy Spirit." But this is vain and ignorant; for in our crucified Jesus we behold the great love of the Father. Our glorying in the cross of Christ alone, is by the grace and teaching of the Holy Spirit, whose office it is to testify of Jesus ONLY, and of salvation by none other; so saith our Lord, "He shall glorify Me; for He shall receive of Mine, and shall shew it unto you." — John 16:14 .  God forbid that any man upon earth, all the devils in hell, all the lusts in our nature, or un...