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

“And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end .”   -Hebrews 6:11  [KJV] The assurance of hope is true and lasting assurance that comes from a concentrated, determined, intense, passionate looking by faith to the Lord Jesus Christ as Surety of our salvation.  It is also called the “full assurance of faith”  (Hebrews 10:22) as the believer sees and believes the way into “the holiest , ”  the very presence of God Himself, “by the blood of Jesus”  (Hebrews 10:19).   The “blood of Jesus”   is “the righteousness of God”  (Romans 3:21-26) freely imputed to His people and which they all without exception receive in their minds and hearts by God-given faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 10:9-10). This is the ground of our salvation and the ground of our assurance of salvation.  Our hope is in Christ Jesus alone. We a...

  “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.”   -Psalm 121:1-2 [KJV]   Almighty God’s Word tells us to look up to Him alone for salvation as He reveals Himself in the glorious Person and finished work of Christ (Isaiah 45:21-25). It also tells us that we can look up to Him alone for help in time of need. When we, as children of God, experience trouble in this world, and we often do, our real help can only come from the Lord.  Our brother Job said, “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble”  (Job 14:1). Our Lord JESUS Christ told us that “...in the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world”  (John 16:33). These troubles come from without and from within, but we know that no trouble can separate us from the love of God in Christ (Romans 8:35-39)...

" Now the just shall live by faith." -Hebrews 10:38 [KJV] Then they will highly prize the word of God. “For by that faith cometh” (see Romans 10:17.) Prophets and apostles, Old Testament saints and New Testament believers speak by one and the same Spirit, one and the same language, of one and the same life. “The just shall live by his faith,” says Habakkuk 2:4. Mind, It is not said, the just, or the justified sinner, shall live for his faith. This would be to substitute faith in the room of its blessed object, Jesus Who saith, “Because I live, ye shall live also " (John 14:19.)   Nor is it said, he shall live upon his faith. We are too apt to look more to, and live more upon, what we think faith, which is rather the feelings of sense, than upon Christ, the object of faith. It is said of Esau, “By thy sword shalt thou live” (Genesis 27:40.) To have lived upon his sword, would have been hard food indeed. But he lived upon the precious morsels his swor...

  PRAISE TO JESUS Tune:  “Take My Life…”    77.77.   Words by Jim Byrd   To the Savior, reigning King, Honors to His Name we bring; What a kind and gracious Friend, May His praises never end, May His praises never end.   Not to us, to Jesus be, Glory, strength and majesty; Let His people now arise, Praise the Lord of earth and skies, Praise the Lord of earth and skies.   With His blood our debt He paid, Full atonement Jesus made; For His death upon the cross, Saved us from eternal loss, Saved us from eternal loss.   Evermore Christ reigns above, Author of redeeming love; There He sits upon His throne, In a glory all His Own, In a glory all His Own.   -------O-------          DIVINE BLESSINGS – THEY JUST KEEP COMING          “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ” ...

"One Lord, one faith, one baptism." -Ephesians 4:5 [KJV]   Jesus saith of His church, “My dove, my undefiled is but one” (Songs of Solomon 6:9.) One body, composed of various members, espoused to Him, by the Spirit, as “to one husband” (II Corinthians 11:2.) Hence called His own body, (Ephesians 1:23.) All such are most dear to the Lord. He nourisheth and cherisheth them. For they are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones, (5:30.) He is their one Lord, and His name is ONE, (Zechariah 14:9.)   This is most true in doctrine. But this is not all. For it is found most sweet in experience also. This is by one faith. By this, we enjoy and walk in sweet and holy fellowship with our Lord and Head. What if I were told, there is one sun, what comfort would that afford me, if I never were to see its light, feel its warmth, and enjoy its influence? Whatever is written of our one Lord, I enjoyed in experience by this one faith. But some talk of various sor...

“...we have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.”   In the book of the Acts, we have Paul’s constant manner of preaching often described to us, particularly; “...and Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.” {Acts 17:2,3}   Yea, when he had occasion to preach at Rome a whole day, from morning unto evening, we are told what he insisted on all the time, in this manner; “...and when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of ...

" Give ear to my words, O L ORD , consider my meditation.  Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto Thee will I pray.  My voice shalt Thou hear in the morning, O L ORD ; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee, and will look up."                                                                               -Psalm 5:1-3 [KJV]