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

" From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him." -John 6:66 [KJV] Thus was fulfilled that word, “How can two walk together, except they be agreed?” (Amos 3:3.) This chapter is like a touch-stone. Herein our Lord tries His disciples, to see who are real sterling, and who not. Many are His professed, but few His real disciples. Sifting times will come. They make manifest. The hottest place in hell is prepared for those who turn their backs upon the Son of God on earth.  Lord, grant that our faces may be set like a flint towards Thee. For, blessed be Thy name, Thou hast said of those who continue with Thee in Thy temptations: “I appoint unto you a kingdom: ye shall eat and drink at My table” (Luke 22:29, 30.) But those who are not agreed with Christ, have not the mind of Christ: will not walk long with Him. See this exemplified.  (1st.) “Some of these disciples followed Christ for the loaves and fishes,” verse 26 . Those who follo...

" Honour the Lord with thy substance." -Proverbs 3:9 [KJV] O may this be the daily study of our hearts, and the constant practice of our lives! “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to the Lord: for the marriage of the Lamb is come” (Revelation 19:7.) He is our husband: we are espoused to Him by faith. Consider the work of honouring the Lord, and the reasons for it.  (1st.) The work. What! can I, a worm of the earth, honour the Lord of heaven: Yes; thou art called to it, and formed for it. This honour have all His saints. It is our greatest honour on earth to honour our Lord in heaven. “All Thy works shall praise Thee, O Lord! and Thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of Thy kingdom, and talk of Thy power: to make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom” (Psalm 145:10, 11, 12.)  So they honoured the Lord of old, in displaying the glory of His grace. This work you are called to, if you have s...

"Salvation is wholly of grace; not only undeserved, but undesired by us, till He is pleased to awaken us to a sense of our need of it. And then we find everything prepared that our wants require, or our wishes conceive; yea, that He has done exceedingly beyond what we could either ask or think.  Salvation is wholly of the LORD, and bears those signatures of infinite wisdom, power, and goodness, which distinguish all His works from the puny imitations of men. It is every way worthy of Himself, a great, a free, a full, a sure salvation.  It is great, whether we consider the objects, miserable and hell-deserving sinners; the end, (being) the restoration of such alienated creatures to His image and favour, to immortal life and happiness; or the means, the incarnation, humiliation, sufferings, and death of His beloved Son.  It is free, without exception of persons, or cases, without any conditions or qualifications, but such as He Himself performs in them, and best...

  Saved by the Death of a Lamb                                      by D. G. Miles McKee   Many years ago, in Germany, a steeplejack was doing work on the top of a church spire.  In the course of his work he lost his footing, slipped, and fell. He frantically tried to save himself by clutching onto one of the ledges but to no avail. It seemed as if he was going to lose his life because he was plunging hastily towards the ground. But the church building at which he was working was in a country parish and sheep generally ran freely in the church-yard. In the providence of God on the day that he fell there was a large lamb on the ground below him. The lamb broke his fall and saved his life. When he recovered from the shock of the fall and was able to get back on his feet, he was amazed to find that his injuries were minimal but by contrast the lamb was dead. The story bec...

" Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the L ORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.  Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and ye perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him." -Psalm 2:10-12 [KJV]

" I will come again, and receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there ye may be also." -John 14:3 [KJV] Our Lord spake these words to His disciples, who had faith in Him, and yet had troubled hearts. Is this your case? They are suited to all such. They are to strengthen the faith and comfort the hearts of disciples. O this coming again of Christ will be the crowning work of all! To whom? awful to think of! The greatest part of the world believe nothing of Christ’s first coming, and care nothing about His second coming. It will be a dreadful coming to them.  “I will come again.” A second coming implies a first. If Christ has come in the power of His Spirit to our hearts, so that we have seen His glory, and believed on Him, we shall look with pleasure, and long with joy, for His coming again. This is a sure mark, that we shall “receive a crown of righteousness, if we love the appearing of Christ” (II Timothy 4:8.)  Now, to your hearts by faith: hereafter, by ...

"El ection,  redemption, and regeneration all spring from God’s sovereign will; they are accomplished by His Divine power and disposed to His glory." -preacher W. E. Best