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

" He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool." -Proverbs 28:26 [KJV] We all do so naturally: therefore, we are all natural fools. But, through our blindness, we are ignorant of it; through pride, we will not own it. How many continue in this awful state of folly, ignorance, and pride! Among the many who are made wise unto salvation, how doth this folly of self-confidence cleave to them! Say some, “To be sure, it is the greatest folly for natural men to trust in their own hearts; for they are deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: but God hath given me a new heart, a clean heart, and a good heart; and surely I may trust in it.” This is the natural language of folly; not the judgment of a new creature in Christ .  Hear the Lord: “I will give them an heart to know that I am the L ORD ; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto Me with their whole heart” (Jeremiah ch. 24.) So that the new heart, the clean heart,...

" By the obedience of One, shall many be made righteous." -Romans 5:19 [KJV] St. Paul speaks of “...another Jesus, another Spirit, and another gospel” (II Corinthians 11:4.) Some talk of a Jesus, Who shed His blood for sinners, and yet leaves them to perish for want of righteousness: this is another Jesus than what the Scriptures reveal. They speak of a Spirit, Who strives to make sinners righteous; but, meeting with so much unexpected, perverse wickedness in their nature, He gives over His attempt, and suffers them to perish in their sins: this is another Spirit, than that Spirit, whose office it is to convince us of sin, and of the righteousness of Christ, to sanctify us in Him, and to glorify Jesus.  Again; they preach what they call gospel, which consists of certain terms to be fulfilled, and conditions performed by us, in order to obtain righteousness and eternal life: this is another gospel, than that good news of everlasting righteousness, life, and salv...

" There is nothing that will make a person look to Christ alone, cling to Christ alone, rest in Christ alone, and love Christ alone than to realize that everything God is, everything God requires, and everything the sinner needs is in Christ alone. We are perfect in Him (Philippians 4:19; Colossians 2:9-10) ! He is perfect and our being in Him makes us perfect in God's sight." -preacher Henry Mahan

" Ye are fallen from grace." -Galatians 5:4 [KJV] Awful words! Enough to excite in us a holy fear, a godly jealously, and this earnest cry, “Lord, uphold me by Thy free Spirit.” What is here meant by grace? the doctrine of God’s free favour, to lost sinners in Christ? redeeming their souls from the curse of the law, by His blood; justifying their persons before God, by His righteousness, without any works of their own; and saving them, without any desert of theirs.  O, my Lord! what rich, what matchless grace is this! My soul shall love and praise Thee eternally in heaven for this! No! but, stop: thy joy is damped:—thou mayest fall from this grace; lose the favour of God; fall into hell. Who says this? Some say, St. Paul here does. No; it is as impossible for a saint in Christ Jesus thus to fall, as for a glorified saint in heaven to fall into hell. Christ is God. It is impossible for God to lie. For Christ says, “My sheep shall never perish.” (John 10:28.) ...

" At that day, saith the L ORD , thou shalt call me Ishi, and shalt call me no more Baali." -Hosea 2:16 [KJV] Many people say, “The Scripture is a dead letter.” Who told them so? not God in His word. True, St. Paul says, “The letter killeth” (II Corinthians 3:6.) This cannot prove the Scripture to be a dead letter; but only, that the letter of the law is a ministration of death. Therefore, even the law cannot be a dead letter: for that which killeth cannot be dead itself. St. Stephen calls it, “The lively oracles” (Acts 7:38.) Our Lord says, “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63.)   If we are dead to the law and married to Christ, here is a precious word of spirit and life from our loving bridegroom to us this night. Married by faith: this is what constitutes “that day,” that gospel-day of our espousals. Whatever may be in the womb of God’s purpose and decree concerning any sinner, yet he can enjoy no comfort of it, ...

The Great Sin of the Self-Righteous   by D.G. Miles McKee   The great sin of the self-righteous, self-centred man is not his pride; it is his unbelief.  For his salvation, he adamantly refuses to rest on the gift of the Lord Jesus  (John 3:18; 1 John 5:10; 1 Corinthians 16:22) . This is his most heinous crime, carrying with it a more concentrated condemnation than all his other sins combined.  Consider this, Jesus taught, " When He  (the Spirit)   is come He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment  …  because they believe not on Me "   (John 16:8-9) . Notice how the Master says that the Spirit will convince the world of sin because they do not keep the Ten Commandments. Woops! Did I just say that? It must have been me for it certainly wasn´t what Jesus taught. According to Jesus, the first sin that the Holy Spirit convicts us of is, not that we are lawbreakers, but tha...

" 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...