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

" Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me, shall never die: believest thou this?" -John 11:26 [KJV] Under great declining of strength, dejection of spirits, and in consideration of the near approach of death, these precious words of our dear dying Lord were brought to my mind: they were as a comforting, reviving, draught to my spirits. Lord! I bless Thee for them. O, my soul! dwell on them. Am I a sinner, born to die? Is death the wages of sin? Must these eyes, which now read Thy precious sayings, be soon closed by death? Must the hand, which now directs this pen, be shortly still and motionless? Yet dost Thou, my Lord, say, “Living and believing in Thee, I shall never die?” Dost Thou ask me, “Believest thou this?” “Lord, Thou knowest all things!” knowest, that, by thy grace, I can say, “Thou art the Son of God:”—Thou hast fulfilled Thine own promise, “O death, I will be thy plague! O grave, I will be thy destruction!” (Hosea 13:14.)  “Death is swallowed up in v...

"Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations." -I Peter 1:6 [KJV] My soul! it is too difficult a task to flesh and blood, but it is among the most blessed triumphs of grace, to glory in tribulation, that the power of Jesus may rest upon the soul. Pause over the subject, and see whether in the little exercises of thy life, such things are among thine experiences. A soul must be truly taught of God the Father; truly acquainted with Jesus, and living near to Him; and truly receiving the sweet and constant influences of the Holy Ghost; when, in the absence of the streams of all creature comforts, he is solacing himself at the Fountain-Head; and, amidst also the fiery darts of temptations! But, my soul, if this be thy happy portion, thou must have acquired it in the school of grace. There are some precious marks by which thou wilt ascertain these things. As, first - I must see that the manifold temp...

"I and My Father are one." - John 10:30 (see also Deuteronomy 6:4 ) KJV There is a great deal of cavilling in some men's minds about the expression, "the blood of God." "How," say they, "could the Godhead bleed? How could the Godhead suffer?" But if it is not the blood of Him who was God, I might just as well rely for salvation on the blood of one of the thieves that were crucified with Him. What is Christ's human nature? That is the rock on which many gallant ships have struck. It is not a person, having a distinct existence apart from the Deity of Christ; but it is a nature: what the Holy Ghost calls a "Holy Thing" (Luke 1:35) ; "a body that God had prepared for Him" (Hebrews 10:5) , taken into intimate, mysterious, and inexplicable union with the Person of the Son of God. So that, whatever that human nature did and suffered, from its intimacy and union with the Son of God, the Son of God did and suf...

  THERE IS BUT ONE SAVIOR   If you look to your repentance and faith for acceptance with God, you will die in your sins.  I hope that statement grabs your attention.  Men tend to run to repentance or faith as the foundation and assurance for their salvation, instead of fleeing to Christ Himself .  They look to what they have done, felt and experienced, rather than looking to the Lord of glory.   This is a fatal mistake.  To be sure, I would never minimize the importance of true repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.  How merciful of the Lord that He grants us repentance to turn from our idols and dead works and gives us faith to embrace the Lord Jesus Christ as our Prophet, Priest and King.   Still, neither repentance nor faith are saviors.  There is but ONE SAVIOR from sin and His name is Jesus Christ.   He is the only Mediator between a holy God and sinful men.  He Alone bore the sins ...

“Is there a God, beside Me? Yea, there is no God; I know not any” (Isaiah 44:8) .  He is the eternal, the self-existent, the omniscient, the omnipresent Being.  If I paused for one moment over this statement, I trust it will be successful in drawing our spirits to regard the glory of the Being we are met to worship.   He is the eternal God – “From everlasting to everlasting Thou art God” – omniscient, pervading everything on earth, and penetrating the recesses of every heart – omnipresent, about our path and about our bed, about our lying down and our rising up; owing His being to none and all beings owing their existence to Him.  Giving an account of none of His matters, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders; doing whatsoever seemeth to Him good in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; none can stay His hand or say, What doest Thou?             ...

How blest are those whose sin and guilt Are fully washed away; They need not fear the wrath of God,   When comes the Judgment Day.   Vindictive justice fell on Christ, Who for the guilty died; And by His bloody sacrifice, Poor souls were justified.   ‘Tis with the death of Christ the Lord, That God is satisfied; The Savior magnified the law, When on the cross He died.   Since Jesus bore their load of guilt, Upon the rugged tree; The ransomed of the Lord are safe For all eternity.   How can we know that Jesus died, And suffered in our place? ‘Tis in this way, if we by faith, The Son of God embrace.

" Perfecting holiness in the fear of God." -II Corinthians 7:1 [KJV] Who are thus exhorted? saints in Christ. What for? To labour to get perfect holiness, to obtain the favour of God? No: they are already perfectly justified in His sight, and sanctified to His glory. But some reject this: they legalize the gospel, (if I may so speak) under a specious shew for holiness, as though that was to procure more for us from God, than the blood and righteousness of His dear Son. This is aiming to perfect holiness, in ignorance and unbelief: this eclipses the glory of Christ’s work for us, inverts the order of gospel economy, and brings perplexity and distress upon God’s children. For, this is the glory of the gospel,—that moment a sinner is justified by the faith of Christ, he is sanctified by the Spirit of Christ.  Our title to heaven, and our meetness for glory, come together by the same rich grace: being brought into the sense of God’s favour, we have also suitable dis...