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

" Ye are not your own, ye are bought with a price." —I Corinthians 6:19, 20 [KJV] O, how dear is every believer to God the Father, to Jesus the Saviour, and to the Spirit the Comforter? Each divine Person claims propriety in them. The Father by election: the Son by redemption: the Holy Spirit by inhabitation. How should this, O soul, call forth love, excite gratitude, inflame with affection, and quicken thee to glorify thy Lord! Consider daily, thou art not thine own, but a ransomed captive of Jesus. Reflect on the price Jesus paid for thy redemption.  Thou art bought with blood: with blood divine: blood, spilt on the accursed tree, in direful agony and shameful death, was the price of thy purchase. So thy Saviour bought thee, at the hands of justice. He paid the utmost farthing of thy debt to law. He redeemed thee from the power of Satan; and snatched thee as a brand from the jaws of death and hell. And canst thou ever think thy redeeming Lord will leave the pu...

  The Gospel and the Believer- Part 4 by D.G. Miles McKee   To grow in our Christian life, we must practice looking unto Jesus.  He is the sovereign and exalted One who lived, died and rose again for us.  There is no other way to successfully live the Christian life than by looking unto Him (Hebrews 12:1-2). But how do we look unto Jesus?   That’s a great question.    The first thing that looking to Jesus means is that we must stop continually examining ourselves and our condition.  There’s room for a little of that but being absorbed with ourselves is not the road that leads to spiritual health. Dedicated believer-centered believers find it difficult to follow the instruction of Hebrews 12:1-2 for they are too busy looking at themselves. To look, therefore, unto Jesus, we must take our spiritual eyes off ourselves and place them firmly on the One who has bought and paid for us with His blood!  But the truth is, believer-centred ...

" Thy people shall be willing in the day of Thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: Thou hast the dew of Thy youth." —Psalm 110:3 [KJV] When sovereign grace reacheth the heart, it casts out that son of the bond-woman, natural free-will. This had long usurped the throne, and subjected the poor sinner to nothing but pride and evil. Yet all the while the sinner vainly boasted of his liberty; though he was a servile slave to the worst of drudgery. Free indeed to do evil; but to do good without power. Such is the natural will of every sinner, that it is as averse to turn to Jesus as the will of the devil is.  But because of the free-will offering of Jesus His members are made willing, by the Spirit, to come to Him as their only hope. To HIM they bring free-will offerings, with holy worship. Thus Jehovah the Father speaks to the Son of His love, and gives a glorious display of the effects of everlasting election and covenant love, under ...

"No flesh, nor sin: No death, nor sting; Hail to KING JESUS, Hail to KING JESUS, Hail to KING JESUS!"

" By the grace of God, I am what I am." —I Corinthians 15:10 [KJV] It would be one great means of preventing complaints and murmurings, if Christians' hearts were more in meditation upon what they once were, still are, and what they deserve. Such was the conduct of the once Jesus-persecuting, but afterwards Jesus-exalting Paul. The same grace that reached his heart, has continued to run through the many revolving periods down to this day, and effects the same blessed work on poor sinners now. Thou therefore, O disciple of Jesus, hast the same cause as Paul had, daily to sing of rich, free, sovereign, distinguishing grace; the eternal love, free favor, and unmerited good-will of God to thy soul in Christ Jesus.  Grace shines with resplendent lustre, in the person of Jesus. Grace operates with sovereign, irresistible power, in the hearts of His members. Hence, it triumphs over all the resisting powers, rebellious motives, carnal workings, and perverse obstina...

" Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." —Luke 12:32 [KJV] When poor sinners are converted to Jesus, they become little in their own eyes, and they see but few comparatively who follow the Lamb. Their former friends turn their enemies. Their former hopes are cut off. They know their own strength to be perfect weakness; and they feel the burden of a body of sin and death. Hence their poor hearts are often exercised with anxious cares and distressing fears. Their Saviour knows this; therefore He speaks to them in love, forbids their fears, and administers the most reviving draught of consolation.  Ye children, consider your dignity as adopted sons of God. Call to mind your honorable state, heirs of a kingdom, heirs of God the King of kings, and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ your elder brother. Though at present ye are in a state of exile. The world knows you not. Your kindred after the flesh despise you. Carnal...

" To them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: mercy unto you, and peace, and love be multiplied." —Jude, vss. 1, 2 [KJV] One frequently meets with poor trembling souls, just enlightened by the Spirit to see their misery, feel their wretchedness as sinners, and who flee to Christ for hope; yet their poor hearts are greatly distressed with fear, lest they should not be sanctified, but perish in their sins, and so never obtain the end of their faith, the salvation of their souls. But that is impossible. They do not at present see the glorious order of the covenant; nor consider the certain security of all who are effectually called by the word and Spirit to the knowledge of Christ.  For this is a consequence of their being sanctified, separated or set apart by God the Father, as the objects of His everlasting love. As God loves them as His jewels, He is careful to preserve them. He well knew and clearly foresaw the mis...