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

Living in the Truth! by D. G. Miles McKee Speaking of one of his political opponents Winston Churchill said, “He occasionally stumbles across the truth but manages to pick himself up and hurries off as though nothing had happened.” Alas, some professing believers are also like that. For the gospel centred believer, however, truth is of utmost importance.  It´s neither optional nor the prisoner of subjective interpretation. In the Bible we encounter such expressions as,  "Those that know the  truth ;" (1 Timothy 4:3b), "Those that obey not the  truth ;" (Romans 2:8; Galatians 3:1; Galatians 5:7), "The  truth  as it is in Jesus;" (Ephesians 4:21), "Belief of the  truth ;" (2 Thessalonians 2:13), "Acknowledging of the  truth ;" (2 Timothy 2:25), "The way of  truth ;" (2 Peter 2:2), "We are of the  truth ;" (1 John 3:19),  "Destitute of the  truth ;" (1 Timothy 6:5), "Sanctify them through thy  trut...

" Thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the L ORD shall name." —Isaiah 62:2 [KJV] This is predicted of the church of God; which, according to covenant-transactions of the glorious Trinity, stands in the nearest and dearest relation to JESUS her Head. She is here spoken of as a single person, THOU : she is called "Christ's body," — Colossians 1:24, and "the bride, the Lamb's wife," —Revelation 21:9, of whom, saith God the Father, "I have loved thee with an everlasting love," —Jeremiah 31:3. Yea, saith the Son of God to His Father, of all His beloved members, "Thou hast loved them as Thou hast loved Me. . . .and Thou lovest Me before the foundation of the world , " —John 17:23, 24.  O most comforting truths of God's word! how ancient is the love of God to His church! That God should love us miserable sinners at all is amazing; but that He should love us with the very same everlasting unchang...

"Jesus Christ; the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever." -Hebrews 8:8 [KJV] Precious truth to open the year with, and to keep constantly in view amidst all the fluctuating and changeable circumstances arising both within and without, and all around! My soul, meditate upon it: fold it up in thy bosom to have recourse to as may be required. Contemplate thy Redeemer as He is here described. He is Jesus, thy Jesus; a Saviour, for He shall save His people from their sins. He is Christ also; God thy Father's Christ, and thy Christ: the Anointed, the Sent, the Sealed of Jehovah. He is the same in His glorious Person, the same in His great salvation:— "Yesterday;" looking back to everlasting: "Today;" equally so through all the periods of time: "For ever;" looking forward to the eternity to come.  And, blessed thought, He is the same in His love, in the efficacy of His redemption; His blood to cleanse, His righteousness to justif...

"Hold up my goings in Thy paths, that my footsteps slip not." -Psalm 17:5 [KJV] Without scrupulously or superstitiously observing "days, and months, and times, and years," few of us altogether pass by so marked an epoch as the dawning of another year upon our path without some acknowledgment of it both to God and man. When we open our eyes on the first morning of the year, we almost instinctively say, "This is New-year’s day." Nor is this, at least this should not be, all the notice we take, all the acknowledgment we make of that opening year of which we may not see the close.  When we bend our knees before the throne of grace, we mingle with thankful acknowledgment for the mercies of the past year, both in providence and in grace, earnest petitions for similar mercies to be experienced and enjoyed through the present. Last evening witnessed our confessions of the many, many grievous sins, wanderings, backslidings, and departings from the l...

Winston Churchill said, “Truth is incontrovertible.  Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, and malice may distort it, but there it is.”  Let me use similar words with respect to the truth of God.   The gospel is irrefutable!  Man’s pride may resent it, his ignorance may reject it, and his wisdom may despise it, but there it is. “ The word of the Lord endureth forever.  And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.”   -I Peter 1:25 [KJV]

" He who endureth to the end shall be saved." -Matthew 10:22 [KJV] We have now arrived to the end of another year. Look back with humility. Look up with hope. Look forward with joy. For consider what great things God hath done for us. “Now is our salvation nearer, than when we first believed , ” (Romans 13:11.) Salvation, O the joyful sound! But, before the Sun of righteousness arose upon us, and displayed the glory of His finished salvation to our hearts, alas! what dark, proud, ignorant notions of salvation, did we entertain? Instead of seeing righteousness as a gift by Jesus Christ, and justification of life coming by free gift, and eternal life the gift of God, through Jesus Christ, (Romans 5:17-18 & 6:23.) we vainly thought that salvation was to be obtained by our fulfilling certain terms and conditions.  In our natural state of blindness, before we saw Jesus, we thought, enduring to the end, was the condition of being saved. Now we see we are “saved ...

"All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away; but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." -I Peter 1:24, 25 [KJV] All flesh, and everything that springs from the flesh, and is connected with the flesh, is as grass, which, for a time, looks green and flourishing, but touched with the mower's scythe, or scorched by the midday sun, soon withers and fades away. Such is all flesh, without exception, from the highest to the lowest. As in nature, some grass grows thicker and longer than other, and makes, for a while, a brighter show, yet the scythe makes no distinction between the light crop and the heavy, so the scythe of death mows down with equal sweep the rich and the poor, and lays in one common grave all the children of men. You have seen sometimes in the early spring the grass in flower, and you have noticed t...