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

" Fools die for want of wisdom." -Proverbs of Solomon 10:21 [KJV] THERE is such a connection between true wisdom, which is "a knowledge of the holy" (Proverbs 30:3) and the fear of the Lord, and such a connection between ignorance of the Lord and sin, that saved saints are called "wise" and lost sinners are called "fools" not only in the Old Testament, as continually in the Proverbs, but in the New. Many of the Lord's people look with suspicion upon knowledge, from not seeing clearly the vast distinction between the spiritual, experimental knowledge for which we are now contending, and what is called "head knowledge."    They see that a man may have a well-furnished head and a graceless heart, that he may understand "all mysteries and all knowledge," and yet be "nothing" (I Corinthians 13:2) and as some of these all-knowing professors are the basest characters that can infest the churches of ...

" By the obedience of One, shall many be made righteous." -Romans 5:19 [KJV] St. Paul speaks of “Another Jesus, another Spirit, and another gospel” (II Corinthians 11:4.) Some talk of a Jesus, Who shed His blood for sinners, and yet leaves them to perish for want of righteousness: this is another Jesus than what the Scriptures reveal .  They speak of a Spirit, Who strives to make sinners righteous; but, meeting with so much unexpected, perverse wickedness in their nature, He gives over His attempt, and suffers them to perish in their sins: this is another Spirit, than that Spirit, Whose office it is to convince us of sin, and of the righteousness of Christ, to sanctify us in Him, and to glorify Jesus .  Again; they preach what they call gospel, which consists of certain terms to be fulfilled, and conditions performed by us, in order to obtain righteousness and eternal life: this is another gospel, than that good news of everlasting righteousness, life, and s...

"And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabacthani ; that is to say, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me ?" -Matthew 27:46 [KJV]   Mark, my soul! Jesus had hung upon the cross now for six hours. Think what agonies He sustained both in soul and body. The fury of hell had broke out upon Him, and in the cruelties of the men around Him, exercised upon His sacred person, manifested how extensive that fury was. But had this been all; had God the Father smiled upon Him, had the cup of trembling been taken away, some alleviation would have taken place in Jesus' sufferings; but so far was this from being the case, that the heaviest load of the sorrow His holy soul sustained, was the wrath of the Father due to sin, as the sinner's Surety. Angels, no doubt, looked on. All heaven stood amazed. And, at length, overpowered with the fulness of sorrow and anguish of soul, the dying Lamb cried out, "My God, My God, why h...

"As the truth is in Jesus." -Ephesians 4:21 [KJV] Without truth there is no regeneration; for it is by "the word of truth" that we are begotten and born again (James 1:18; I Peter 1:23) . Without truth there is no justification; for we are justified by faith , which faith consists in crediting God's truth, and so gives peace with God. Without the truth there is no sanctification; for the Lord Himself says, "Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth" (John 17:17.) And without the truth there is no salvation; for "God hath chosen us to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and BELIEF OF THE TRUTH" (II Thessalonians 2:13.) And as the truth is the instrumental cause of all these blessings, the divinely-appointed means whereby they become manifested mercies, so truth enters into and is received by all the graces of the Spirit as they come forth into living exercise. Thus, without the truth, there is no faith; fo...

" I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of God’s Word against my conscience, nor would do this day, if all that is in earth, whether it be honor, pleasure, or riches, might be given me." -preacher William Tyndale , (1494-1536 A.D.), Foxe’s Book of Martyrs , p.184

" Ye are fallen from grace." -Galatians 5:4 [KJV] Awful words! Enough to excite in us a holy fear, a godly jealously, and this earnest cry, “Lord, uphold me by Thy free Spirit.” What is here meant by grace? the doctrine of God’s free favour, to lost sinners in Christ? redeeming their souls from the curse of the law, by His blood; justifying their persons before God, by His righteousness, without any works of their own; and saving them, without any desert of theirs.  O, my Lord! what rich, what matchless grace is this! My soul shall love and praise Thee eternally in heaven for this! No! but, stop: thy joy is damped:—thou mayest fall from this grace; lose the favour of God; fall into hell. Who says this? Some say, St. Paul here does. No; it is as impossible for a saint in Christ Jesus thus to fall, as for a glorified saint in heaven to fall into hell.  Christ is God. It is impossible for God to lie. For Christ says, “My sheep shall never perish” (John 10:28.) ...

"And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say, unto thee, today shalt thou be with Me in Paradise ." -Luke 23:43 [KJV] My soul, hear the gracious words of thy Jesus. This was the third cry of the Redeemer on the cross. And Oh! how full of grace, rich, free, unmerited, unexpected, unlooked-for grace, to a poor lost perishing sinner, even in the very moment of death. Let the self-righteous pharisee behold this example of redeeming love, and wonder, and be confounded. Surely no one will venture to suppose that this man's good works were any recommendation, when the poor wretch was dying under the hands of justice.  What was it then that saved him but the complete salvation of Jesus? The Son of God was offering His soul on the cross a sacrifice for sin, and being between two notorious sinners, gave a rich display of the sovereignty of His grace, and His love to poor sinners; and in confirmation, snatched this one as a brand from the burning—took him from the very jaws o...