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

" With His stripes we are healed." -Isaiah 53:5 [KJV] A great professor once said to me, “I can never conceive how one man can be made righteous, by the righteousness of another.” Thus his carnal reason led him to object against Christ’s righteousness being imputed to us . I replied, Why then do you profess to believe, that your sins can be washed away by the blood of another? He was silent. “Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness.”   Too great a mystery for human reason to comprehend: but not too great for divine faith to receive, to the joy of godliness. Sin is a malignant and mortal disease. The soul must die eternally of it, unless healed. This healing the soul, is the pardoning of sin. This is obtained by the stripes of Christ. You feel the evil of sin; you mourn over the guilt of sin; you groan under the burden of indwelling sin, from day to day.  The Spirit of truth, the Comforter , here holds forth a blessed remedy for you to look to, f...

According to proponents of man’s “free will” in salvation, God cannot save sinners in the present day unless they let Him do so. According to their logic, neither will God condemn sinners at the final day unless they let Him do so.      According to their doctrine, sinners are sovereign, and God is what they let Him be.   – preacher Daniel Parks

“The righteous shall be glad in the LORD and shall trust in Him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.” -Psalm 64:10 [KJV] In what way is a man made righteous before God? I answer, he is not made so by any good works proceeding from himself nor by his prayers, duties nor obedience, nor by his faith nor love to the LORD. God has made him righteous in His own Way and He has revealed it in the WORD of His Grace.  There we find that He has, in sovereign Mercy and discriminating Grace, imputed to and laid upon the Beloved Surety, all the sin and transgression of His chosen inheritance, He transferred to them all the obedience, righteousness and holiness of His Beloved Son, placing it to their account as their justification and here it is that they are exclusively righteous before God.  “Of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, Who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness and sanctification and redemption”   (1st Corinthians 1:30.) So nothing belonging to the p...

"Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification."   Christ did not only rise for Himself, but for His members, and their justification, Romans 4:25 , and therefore for their resurrection ; for there is no reason death, the punishment, should remain, if guilt, the meritorious cause of it, be removed. He rose for our justification declaratively, i.e. His resurrection was a declaration of our fundamental justification, BECAUSE JUSTICE WAS THEREBY DECLARED TO BE SATISFIED, which would else have shut us in the grave, and locked the chains of death for ever upon us.  It is by this, the first step of his entrance into glory, WE HAVE AN ASSURANCE that the graves shall open, bodies stand up, and death be swallowed up in victory. HENCE ARISETH AN ASSURANCE OF A PERFECT GLORIFICATION OF EVERY BELIEVER. The heavens receive him till, and therefore in order to, 'the restitution of all things , ' Acts 3:21 , the full restoration of all t...

The L ORD is in His holy temple. The L ORD is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence; let all the earth keep silence before Him. Keep silence, keep silence, before Him.

" If any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God on this behalf." -I Peter 4:16 [KJV] “The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch” (Acts 11:26.) It is a blessed name. We ought ever to glory in it, and never be ashamed of it. But the bare name will no more avail us in life, death, and judgment, than to be called rich, while we are feeling the pinching hand of want. Christ signifies anointed. He was anointed to be our Saviour (Acts 10:38.) All who are saved by Him, and come to Him, are His anointed ones. So St. John speaks of all Christ’s living members. “Ye have an unction from the Holy One” (I John 2:20.)   To anoint, is to consecrate and set apart for holy and spiritual purposes. Christians are consecrated and set apart from the rest of the world, to be a people peculiarly devoted to the glory of Jesus. They are the jewels which compose His mediatorial crown. Are you thus highly honoured by the Lord of life and g...

" They shall take to them every man a lamb." -Exodus 12:3 [KJV] This was God’s appointed means of salvation, in a night of sore destruction. It was a display of the sovereignty of God, and the obedience of faith. Lord, enable us to bow to the one, and to learn more and more of the other.  Consider, (1st.) The sovereignty of God in His severity upon His enemies, and in His goodness to His people: in destroying all the first-born of the former, and in preserving every one of the latter. And this was in a way appointed by His sovereign mercy. There is no mercy from God to any sinner, but in the way He Himself appoints. This was a lamb. “They shall take to them every man a lamb.”   His flesh was to be their food, his blood their salvation. Would not taking the flesh and blood of any other creature have answered the same end? No: To attempt it would have been a direct act of unbelief of God’s word, and disobedience to His will. Such a soul would have brought upon him...