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

" Whom He justified, them He also glorified." — Romans 8:30 [KJV] What poor scanty thoughts do we too often entertain of the love and beneficence of our covenant God! At best our conceptions are too contracted: we are straitened in our own bowels, while we have no cause to be straitened in the super-abounding grace of our Lord: we have little reason to borrow contracted thoughts of God's love from Egyptian taskmasters. Our own corrupt nature too, too often furnishes with carnal pleas and unbelieving suggestions, which weaken our faith, cool our love, damp our zeal, deject our spirits, and grieve our hearts. Simple hearts should have nothing to do but with the plain simple truths of God.  Hath the Lord said it? He will also do it. Faith defies Satan's power, and smiles at human contradictions. Though humbled souls lie low in self-abasement, yet their views are exalted to the highest confidence, by God's purposes, declarations, and promises in Christ ...

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" Now I know thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from Me." - Genesis 22:12 [KJV] So spake Jesus to His friend of old. What! did not God know that Abraham feared Him before this? Doubtless he did. But now in the exercise of faith and love he approved himself to God. He gave full evidence that God's commandments are not grievous: that it was his joy and delight to obey his God. Lord, give what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt, is the breathing of faith and love!  Thus was the faith of Abraham justified by its fruits. Seest thou how his faith wrought by his works? And by works he gave full proof that he possest the faith of God's elect. Thus he obtained this glorious testimony to his own soul from the mouth of the Lord: "Now I know that thou fearest God with a loving, filial fear. Thy faith worketh by love: it has influenced thy heart to this eminent act of cheerful, unreserved obedience to Me."  His f...

" He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the witness in himself." — I John 5:10 [KJV] Many of the weak lambs of Jesus, are sadly perplexed in their minds about the nature of faith. From the corruption of their hearts, the workings of the enemy, unscriptural notions they have been taught, and opposings of unbelief to the weakness of their faith, they are often ready to question, nay, sometimes to conclude they have not "the faith of God's elect."  Here is a certain rule to determine by: this, if clearly understood in the light of the Spirit, will satisfy and comfort weak hearts. Mind, the apostle doth not say, he that believeth hath no sin, no doubts; knows his sins are forgiven, and has full assurance of his own salvation. No: "but he hath the witness in himself." What is this but an inward testimony of what is outwardly revealed in the word? As the Spirit bears witness in the word to Jesus the incarnate Son of God, the only true and ...

" The wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable..." — James 3:17 [KJV] True knowledge centers in this one point, namely, that Jesus is our wisdom ; even as the sun is the only source of all light. From hence light is communicated to the earth freely. As that hath no power to influence the sun to shed forth its comforting beams of light, so neither are we able or willing, while in a state of sin and folly, to exert any power to procure wisdom. But unasked, unsought, unmerited; Jesus, who is emphatically styled WISDOM, came down from above, that wisdom might once more be found in our nature.  In Him most conspicuously shone forth every perfection of purity, peace, gentleness, etc. This is our gospel to believe, that thus Jesus hath "abounded towards us in all wisdom." — Ephesians 1:8 . So also it is the rich experience of His members, that "out of His fulness we all receive." Hence we are made wise unto salvation, for we know, l...

" 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...