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

Most "churches" teach and preach a man-centered gospel. As though the "happiness of man" was God's chief concern. God's chief concern is His own Glory. In fact, reality exists for ONE purpose – That God would be glorified in the death of His Son, demonstrating to all of creation that He is a JUST God and a Savior .   —Kenneth Halloran

There is no doubt that the Bible teaches that God has an elect people chosen by Him in free and sovereign grace in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world. They are known by being brought by the Holy Spirit to hear and believe the Gospel of God’s grace in Christ Jesus wherein the righteousness of God (the entire merit of Christ’s obedience unto death as their Surety and Substitute) is revealed to them and received by them.  They all without exception believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as He is revealed in the Gospel (1 Thess. 1:4-5; 2 Thess. 2:13-14), However, the Gospel does not address lost sinners as being either elect or non-elect. It addresses them as sinners who have nothing to recommend them unto God and who are in need of God’s free sovereign grace in the Lord Jesus Christ to save them.  It addresses them as who are totally depraved, dead in sin, and in need of righteousness they cannot produce. It commands all who hear it to believe in Christ as H...

"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus." -Romans 8:1 [KJV] There is not a more blessed declaration than this in the whole word of truth. It is the sweetest note sounded by the gospel trumpet, for it is the very crown of the whole jubilee. Is not condemnation the bitterest drop in the cup of trembling? the most thrilling, piercing note of that terrible trumpet which sounded so long and so loud from Sinai's blazing top that all the people that were in the camp trembled? (Exodus 19:13, 16) Condemnation is the final execution of God's righteous law, and therefore carries with it all that arms death with its sting and the grave with its terror. The apprehension of this; the dread and fear of being banished for ever from the presence of God; of being lost, and that without remedy; of sinking under the blazing indignation of Him who is a consuming fire, has filled thousands of hearts with horror. And it must be so as long as the law speaks...

" I will greatly rejoice in the L ORD : my soul shall be joyful in my God: for He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation; He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness." -Isaiah 61:10 [KJV] It would be surprising to see a malefactor going to execution, singing and rejoicing all the way. But, if, when he came to the fatal place, he should produce the king’s free pardon, with royal promises of being admitted to his presence and appearing at court, in the richest robe of the king’s providing, our wonder would cease. We should own that he really had abundant cause for joy. Come, my fellow-condemned malefactors, though sin has stripped you of your innocent dress of righteous clothing; though you are under the sentence of death, yet behold, here is a pardon for you, the best robe to put upon you, and a sure promise of admission into the king’s presence.  Read it and rejoice. “Grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life” (Romans 5:21.) The God ...

" Fear ye not. Stand still and see the salvation of the L ORD ." - Exodus 14:13 [KJV] The people of God were now in a great strait, even at their wits end. Perish they must, to all human appearance. A wide ocean is before them. Inaccessible mountains surround them. An enraged monarch pursues them. Death in various shapes presents itself to them. Yet, for all this says Moses, “Fear not.” Peevish unbelief and carnal reason might suggest, what! not be afraid, when inevitable destruction must be our doom? Why will Moses talk to us after this mad, enthusiastic rate?  But in the view of apparent destruction, Moses tells them of a certain salvation, and commands them to stand still and behold it. We do not hear one word from Moses, to soothe their fears, or comfort their minds, from any considerations of what they were in themselves, what good works they had done, what terms and conditions they had performed to entitle them to the Lord’s favour, etc. No. But they were...

GOD IS SATISFIED, AND SO AM I. by D.G. Miles McKee There’s a wonderful verse in Romans 4:5 … “To him that worketh not but believes ( trusts ) on Him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”   This amazing statement tells us that God acquits the ungodly , not the godly. But how can He do it, and yet remain righteous?  After all, He is, "… of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity" (Habakkuk 1:13).  Has God changed?  Impossible! (Malachi 3:6). But, as Romans 3:21-26 teaches us, God is just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus. This is an amazing truth!  Through the blood-shedding of our Lord Jesus Christ, God can now, in perfect consistency with Himself, justify the ungodly. And this blessing comes to those that “work not,” but believe.  Therefore, the way to be saved is neither by our good works, nor by becoming good and certainly not by deserving it.  If those ways were true, we...

Head's-Up friends ~ great cheer to follow... The only way that God could accept us and receive us and save us is for Him to have viewed all our sins to be on our Surety and dealt with by our Substitute bearing in His own body our sins on that tree, and now He doesn't see them anymore. Is that right? Is that too good to be true?   It scares people to death. I'm telling you, people who rest in their works and most especially these VILE FALSE RELIGIONISTS AND PREACHERS WHO PREACH SALVATION BY WORKS, it scares them to death for somebody to say that God does not see the sins of His people in them.  But I'm gonna tell you this: before a just God, He cannot see as that old hymn-writer said, He cannot see my sins in me and my sins in my Substitute at the same time. Impossibility. Paul says, "This is the Gospel, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them."   Did you hear that? That word " impute ...