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

" I have all and abound: I am full." -Philippians 4:18 [KJV] Happy Paul! infinitely richer than the most opulent monarch under heaven. Ye poor, wretched, covetous, worldlings! whose gold is your god, and who are labouring to add heap to heap—how long? Till ye drop into eternity, die like fools, and forever lose the idol of your hearts? Behold here a man, who has more than ever you possessed. He has ALL: you only obtain a part of what you aim at; you are still in want of more. Rich, happy Paul possesses ALL.  “And,” says Paul, “I abound.” Not in want and wish, but in full enjoyment. “I am full.” I can contain no more. He had “the unsearchable riches of Christ” for his portion. His wealth consisted in his mind being contented with that, as his greatest treasure. O! thou poor, murmuring disciple of Christ, who art often fearing and distrusting, lest thou shouldst want the bread that perisheth for thyself and family; and thou, my soul! who hast often been exerci...

" God’s love is holy; His love is not regulated by passion or sentiment, but by principle.  It never conflicts with His holiness, and will never wink at sin.  The highest manifestation of God’s love is the Cross [- of the L ORD J ESUS Christ ]." -preacher W. E. Best

" My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen Thou me, according unto Thy word." -Psalm 119:28 [KJV]      While the wicked are gay, alert, and merry, many of God’s beloved children go bowed down, from day to day, with heaviness of soul. When they compare themselves with the men of the world, under such seasons, they are tempted to write bitter things against themselves, and to pass a verdict in favour of others. Soul! in the heaviest season, and most dejected frame you ever experienced, say, Could you find it in your heart to wish to change lots with them?  What! quit your faith in Jesus, and hope of eternal enjoyment of Him— for what? the momentary gratifications and short lived pleasures of time and sense. Alas! my soul is in such heaviness, that I doubt whether I have either a spark of faith or a ray of hope in Christ. My soul melteth: it bears no image nor impression of any grace, or of the power of any truth. Faith fails: hope decays: my heart sin...

" My meditation of Him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the L ORD ." -Psalm 104:34 [KJV] Sweet meditation of the Lord causes gladness in the Lord, inspires us with the love of the Lord, and inclines us to ascribe the glory of all we enjoy to the Lord. It is said of Constantine the Great, that, after God had honoured him with many victories, as the effigies of other emperors were set up in a triumphant manner, with their victories engraven upon their loins, he desired that his might be set in a posture of prayer, kneeling, that he might manifest to the world, that he attributed all his victories more to his prayers than his sword. This was the result of sweet meditation.  What great gain do souls reap by spiritual meditation! Strangers to this delightful exercise, know not what others gain, nor their own loss. A day spent without some meditation of the sinner’s Redeemer and Saviour, is a day lost. For Jesus gets no glory from our hearts. We get no comfort from Hi...

" Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the L ORD J ESUS ." -Colossians 3:17 [KJV] I have sometimes thought, how is it possible that a believer in Christ can ever willingly and deliberately commit any one sin? It is hardly to be conceived, that such can live and walk under the power of sin. I am sure all sin is as contrary to the nature of a new-born soul, as heaven to hell: yet nothing is more plain, from the word of God, and the experience of His saints, than that sin dwells in them. But they are solemnly forbidden to “let sin reign in them, that they should obey it in the lusts thereof” (Romans 6:12.)  And if our souls are not striving against sin, and pressing after holiness, I know not where to find one text, in the word of God, to encourage us to believe and hope, that we are the children of God. I dread not the Satanic grin of licentious Antinomians. Does their infectious breath pronounce this legal? It only proclaims their unregenerat...

What Do You Think of Christ? Part I   by D.G. Miles McKee Matthew 22: 41-42.   John Newton penned the following penetrating words, “What think ye of Christ? is the test To try both your state and your scheme; You can­not be right in the rest, Unless you think right­ly of Him.” What a stunning question! … “What think ye of Christ?”   Unfortunately, the truth is that many, many people don´t think of Him. However, in the entire annals of human history Jesus Christ stands alone.  He is unique. He has no equals.  He has no near rivals.  He stands head and shoulders above all others.  He is Lord over all lords.  He is King over all kings. There´s no one like Him. But what do  you  think of Him? In my opinion, He´s Unique.  Now just to remind you, to classify something as unique means it is the only one of its kind.  There is no such a thing of something being more or most unique.  No indeed!  Jesus is unique. ...

It is true that “in the mouths of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.” Yet, if ten million agree on something that is not to be found in the holy scriptures, or contrary to them, their agreement does not make it true or right. Men find security and confirmation in the agreement of others with them. They have little “mutual admiration societies” in which they praise each other, hold others in contempt and believe themselves to be the only ones that are right. This was the way of the Pharisees that Christ publicly rebuked with scathing words. Our praise is to be to Christ Who alone is right, our agreement is to be with Him and His Gospel and our loyalty is to be to Him and His brethren. -preacher Gary Shepard of Sovereign Grace Baptist church located in Jacksonville, North Carolina USA