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

" There is no fear in love. But perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment; he who feareth is not made perfect in love." -I John 4:18 [KJV] The wild fire of nature’s passions are often mistaken for heavenly love. These have hurried people into dreadful delusions. Some have pretended to be so perfect in love, as to have nothing but pure love in them, and that the being of sin was entirely taken out of them. But they have soon given awful evidence, that they “deceived themselves, and that the truth was not in them” (I John 1:8.)   Be wise by other’s harms. Study the word of God: abide by that. Live upon the perfect love of God: glory in that alone. For you are, and ever will be, while in the body, the subject of sin, therefore subject to that fear which hath torment: to fear God as an enemy, armed with almighty vengeance and vindictive wrath against you, a sinner. How is this tormenting fear to be cast out? By love; the perfect love of God in Chri...

"Being confident of this very thing, that He which began a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" (Philippians 1:6).   If God began a thing, it was not begun in time. If it is realized in time, it began with God in eternity. So, the salvation, the grace that these believers received, began before the foundation of the world. We know from the clear revelation of scripture that the eternal aspects of grace are Christ’s Suretyship, election unto salvation, predestination of conformity to Christ, calling, justification and glorification.  Along with this is the eternal mechanism of providence that orders all things to their appointed end. I feel for those who think that what they do or do not do somehow affects the outcome of history. It is He that has begun this good work, and who can disannul or turn it back? The work is called a “good work .”  There is no doubt it is good for the believer. However, the reason it is good is because He ...

“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands; thy walls are continually before Me.” -Isaiah 49:15-16 [KJV] This is a revelation of the Lord’s everlasting concern for and faithfulness to His chosen people; here is our eternal security. How delightful to meditate upon our Lord’s unceasing care and concern for His children. If we could by faith behold the Lord’s unending designs of grace toward us, then like Paul we would be joyful in the Lord even in the midst of dark trials and we would lean upon His word of promise, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” (Hebrews 13:5). Pay special attention to those words, “I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands.” The text does not say that our names are painted on His hands lest we imagine they could be rubbed out and neither are our names said to be written on His h...

" Woe unto them which justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him." -Isaiah 5:23 [KJV] Persons are said in the Scripture to do a thing, when they aim to do it, and, if it were in their power, would do it: so apostates are said “to crucify the Son of God afresh” (Hebrews 6:6.) But that is impossible. Yet, by denying Christ to be the Son of God, they justify the act, and, were it in their power, would do it again. So here, a woe is denounced against persons for teaching cursed, corrupt doctrine.  (1st.) “They justify the wicked for a reward.” This is the common and prevailing doctrine of our day. The wicked is the character of every natural man. Let the lives of such be ever so wicked, yet, instead of being told the necessity of being born again of the Spirit and justified by the Son of God, they are taught to believe they can bribe God’s justice, obtain His favour, and justify their souls in His sight, by their dut...

There has been a winnowing, a fire applied, the loss of all things held dear in the heart, bitter disappointments, a heart and soul crushing. A sorrow that goes beyond words. Many of God's children are brought to utter despair. They see the propriety of the wicked and wonder if they are even sons and daughters of the Most High God. God seems to have turned His back. But He has not forgotten you, nor forsaken you. What you lose in this life, for the sake of Christ (and all things ultimately are for His sake) you will be repaid 100 fold in the life to come. I honestly believe that those true children, most wounded in this life, will shine the brightest in the next. Don't despair, The Lord Himself will arise with healing in His wings. Grace and Peace.   -author unknown

" But Jesus stooped down, and with His finger wrote on the ground, as though He heard them not." -John 8:6 [KJV]  Note: Friends, also see the prophetic fulfillment of Christ's saying found in Jeremiah 17:13: as it is written, "O L ORD , the hope of Israel, all that forsake Thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters." Every, the most minute transaction of the life of Christ, should be precious to the faith of our hearts. For in all that He did in life, and by all that He suffered in death, He manifested Himself to be the Saviour of lost sinners. The love of His heart knows no bounds to such. He willingly came to seek, and to save them. It is His joy to find, and His glory to save the lost. O were it not so, the hand that writes must tremble, that holds the pen, drop it with terror, while his heart would be filled with distress, and his soul sink int...

"Christ is to be answerable for ALL those that are given to Him, at THE LAST DAY, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ’s charge and care of these that are given to Him extends even to the very day of their resurrection that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, “ I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day ” (John 6:39). -Gospel report by preacher Thomas Brooks (1608-1680 A.D.)