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

Jesus  Our Redemption and Ransom by D. G Miles McKee We are not redeemed because we felt or experienced something.  No indeed! We are redeemed because the Lord Christ bought and paid for us with His own blood some 2,000 years ago.  We are His purchased possession.  He owns us.  We have been bought with the price of His blood (I Corinthians 6:20) .  Is it any wonder then that Fanny Crosby penned the lovely hymn,   “Redeemed how I love to proclaim it, Redeemed by the blood of the lamb: Redeemed by His infinite mercy, His child and forever I am. Redeemed, redeemed, Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb; Redeemed, redeemed, His child and forever I am.” Romans 3:24 states we are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus . Notice this scripture informs us that our redemption is “in Christ Jesus.” In addition,   Mark 10:45 and I Timothy 2:6  tell us that Jesus is not only our redemption but also ou...

" Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen: let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation." -Judges 10:14 [KJV] A severe sarcasm from the Lord to apostate sinners! It causes a hell upon earth to a renewed soul, to hear and feel just upbraidings from the Lord of heaven: this is one of His severest chastizings to His children. Here is an awful charge, and a severe reproof: the Lord keeps us clear of the one, that we fall not under the other.  Consider, (1st.) the charge: it is idolatry. They had gods of their own choosing. For the Lord’s sake, and for our soul’s sake, let us not think, we are in no danger of falling into this sin! It is committed by professors every day. Aged Paul wept over such. Though they professed Christ, yet they were enemies to His cross: their belly was their god: “Their hearts were set upon earthly things” (Philippians 3:19.) Such are not content with Christ as their own; to live in fellowship with Him: to walk in self-denied...

"There laid they Jesus." -John 19:42 [KJV] My soul, it is usual for the relations and friends of those that are deceased to attend the funeral. Art thou a friend, a relation, of Jesus? Oh yes; I trust thou art. He was, and is, the dearest of all friends, the nearest of all relations. He is at once all and every one—the Father, the Husband, the Brother. The invitation is therefore sent to thee, personally to thee . Every voice of affection calls thee to the tomb of Jesus, saying, "Come, see the place where the Lord lay." And if, like Mary Magdalene, from more abundant love, thou art asking, "Where have they laid Him?" —the answer immediately is returned, "Come and see." Yes, Thou dear Redeemer! By that faith Thou hast graciously given me, I will come and see. Let my faith take wing, and light down in Joseph of Arimethea's garden, and behold the place where the Lord lay. Was this the memorable spot? Did Jesus lay here? Did He here...

" Scripture teaches that Christians must not be conformed to this age, whether secular or religious. They must be transformed by the renewing of their minds that they might prove what is the will of God (see Romans 12:2) . This renewal is continuous." -preacher Wilbur Elias Best

"Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?" -Jeremiah 15:12 [KJV] You see that the Lord, when He is pointing out the trials His people are passing through, compares them to "iron." He does not diminish their weight; He does not at all lower their oppressive tendency. But, then, in order to administer a suitable remedy to Jeremiah's soul, he brings forward something much stronger. "Shall iron," He says, "break the northern iron and the steel?" No surely; the "northern iron and the steel" shall break through that. The common iron never can break through the northern iron, which is a metal of such a far superior nature; still less prevail against that keen well-tempered steel which can cut through everything it touches. Now if your hearts are exercised with iron sorrows, temptations, trials, and perplexities, I am sure you will want the almighty power of God in your souls to cut them asunder. And God can do it...

" Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." -Revelation 2:10 [KJV] This text has been seized by Arminian hands, dragged to their mint; the impress of man’s faithfulness struck on their minds, as his title to a crown of life; and pressed into their service, to militate against the electing love of God, and finished salvation by Christ only . O, Christian! does not your heart rise with indignation against such a self-exalting notion? It is the very dregs of unfaithfulness to Christ. Are you not ready to spurn it with a holy vehemence, saying, Get to hell, from whence you sprung? What! my faithfulness on earth the cause, the condition, the merit of my being crowned in heaven!  O, my law-fulfilling, justice-satisfying, sin-atoning Jesus! can I ever think so meanly of thy agony and bloody sweat; thy cross and passion; thy precious death and burial; thy glorious resurrection and ascension; and of the coming of the Holy Ghost? as though all thi...

"And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, He said, Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit : and having said thus, He gave up the ghost." -Luke 23:46 [KJV] My soul, ponder well these last of the last seven words of thy God and Saviour which He uttered on the cross; for surely they are most sweet and precious, and highly interesting, both on thy Saviour's account and thine own. And first remark, the manner in which the Lord Jesus thus breathed out His soul; not like a man spent and exhausted, after hanging so many hours on the cross, faint with loss of blood, and such agonies of soul as never one before endured; but it was with a loud voice, thereby proving what He had before declared— "No man taketh My life from Me; I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again" (John 10:18.) Precious Jesus, how sweet this assurance to Thy people. But wherefore cry with a loud voice? A whisper, nay, a thought of the soul only, if with an ...