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

“My heart,” says David, “shews me the wickedness of the ungodly.”  As face answers to face in a glass, so the heart of man to man.  When a believer considers the vileness of his own heart by nature, he does not wonder so much that others fall, as that he himself is kept from falling.  -Mr. Madan

" Save yourselves from this untoward generation." -Acts 2:40 [KJV] Some, from a warm zeal for free-will, and a strong opposition to salvation by grace, have been weak enough to cite this passage to prove, that we have a hand in our own salvation; because we are here called upon to save ourselves. They might with equal propriety have inferred, that we are here exhorted to new create ourselves. But there is a sense, in which this exhortation is peculiarly applicable, to every saved sinner, every justified believer in Christ.  For the honour and glory of our Saviour, and for the peace and comfort of our souls, let us attend to it. Wisdom informs us, There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet not washed from their filthiness. O how filthy are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up (see Proverbs 30:12,13 KJV.) Now these are at enmity against, “That seed that serve the Lord, and which are counted to Him for a generation” (Psalm 22:30.) It w...

  ‘Tis not that I did choose Thee for Lord that could not be This heart would still refuse Thee Had’st Thou not chosen me Thou from the sin that stained me hast cleansed and set me free Of old Thou hast ordained me that I should live to Thee.   Your love had no beginning, no cause in me was found That you should choose to save me, a sinner strongly bound But grace not earned or sought for was purposed for my soul For me, salvation wrought; for Christ paid the dreadful toll.   ‘Twas sovereign mercy called me and taught my opening mind The world had else enthralled me to heav’nly glories blind My heart owns none before Thee for Thy rich grace I thirst This knowing if I loved Thee, Thou must have loved me first.  

"Let the lying lips be put to silence, which speak grievous things, proudly and contemptuously against the righteous." -Psalm 31:18 [KJV] The language of natural reason is, If I am righteous, God will love me: the language of faith is, Though I am a sinner, yet God loves me; and, because He loves me, therefore He makes me righteous. How? The pen of inspiration answers: David, describing the character of a sinner, renewed by grace, and made meet to dwell with God, saith, “He shall receive righteousness from the God of his salvation” (Psalm 24:5.)   Here we see plainly, that righteousness is a gift; that it is received, not worked out by the sinner; that it is given by the God of our salvation. It is the glorious robe, our elder brother, Jesus, wrought out for us; our heavenly Father imputes to us, and puts upon us. God the Holy Spirit enables us, by faith, to receive it, rejoice in it, and boast of it. For, we see ourselves made infinitely and everlastingly rig...

Salvation is not a question of feeling, as so many would make it. It is entirely a matter of faith in a Person ( the man, Christ JESUS ), in an accomplished fact, faith-wrought in the soul of a sinner by the power of the Holy Ghost. This faith is something quite different from a mere feeling of the person or an assent of the intellect.  Mere feeling and sentimentality (or emotion) can never rise above the source from whence they come and that source is self; but faith has to do with God and His eternal Word, and is a living link, connecting the heart that possesses it with God Who gives it. Feelings and sentiments can never connect with the soul of God.  No doubt, faith will produce feeling and sentiments (spiritual feelings and truthful sentiments)—but the fruits of faith must never be confounded with faith itself. He can only be known by His own revelation and by the faith which He Himself imparts. -preacher Scott Richardson

" Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.  My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.  God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day." -Psalm 7:9-11 [KJV]

Was  Yahweh Ever Pierced? by D. G. Miles McKee   “The head that once was crowned with thorns Is crowned with glory now A royal Diadem adorns The mighty Victor’s brow.”   Thank God for the Old Testament prophets, prophets like Zechariah who exactly identifies the Lord Jesus.  Listen as the seer gives a message from Yahweh foretelling events of the last day. He writes,   “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.”   (Zechariah 12:10).   Did you catch that? The one from whom the message comes is Yahweh and notice what He claims! He asserts that He has been pierced!  He says, “ they shall look upon  me  whom they have pierced .”  In other words, the p...