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

The Gospel & Authentic New  Testament Ministry , Part III by D Miles McKee         It is sad to say but the gospel is often quietly rejected in many of today’s churches. Indeed, the appeal of many modern preachers can be positively anti-gospel. . “We must move on to the deep things,” they tell us as they hurriedly turn to Hebrews 6:1 and following verses. “See what it says,” they declare with full confidence, “It says, “ Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ let us go unto perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and faith towards God, of the doctrine of baptisms and the laying on of hands and of the resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment.”   Yes indeed, that is exactly what we should do! We are called to go on to perfection, and a thorough reading of Hebrews shows us that Christ and His New Covenant are the perfection spoken of.   The book of Hebrews was written to Je...

"Therefore will I look unto the LORD: I will wait for the GOD of my salvation: my GOD will hear me."   - Micah 7:7 [KJV] Here is a soul exclaiming against the very worst of foes. “A man’s enemies are the men of his own house.”  Under such experience, behold and imitate the conduct before us. Here are two acts of the mind, and the cry of faith.  (1st.) I will look . The Lord is the object looked to. Blessed be the Spirit, He opens our eyes to see Him, and our hearts to believe His love to us and care for us. Then we know the voice of Christ and obey it. He says, “Look unto Me, and be ye saved , ”   (Isaiah 45:22.) Whenever distressed with enemies from within and without, sin, Satan, or the world, here is our warrant, to look unto the Lord . He assures us of salvation from them. We shall find and feel these enemies, to the end of life.  Therefore looking unto the Lord, is to be the constant work of life. O the special mercy to have such a Lord to look...

"The King hath brought me into His chambers."   -Song of Solomon 1:4 [KJV] Yes, He who is King of nations, King of saints, is my God and King also; for He hath an universal empire, being one with the Father over all, blessed for ever. Amen . To Him I bow the knee, and humbly and gratefully desire to put the crown of my salvation on His adorable head. And what hath this Sovereign done for thee, my soul? Oh record His praise; tell it to saints and sinners all around.    This great, and glorious, and condescending King, hath not only brought thee out of darkness and the shadow of death, but hath brought thee into His chambers. What chambers? Chambers of sweet communion and fellowship; chambers of love, of grace, of mercy, of redemption, of ordinances, and of all covenant blessings. He hath taught me of His love, and my privileges in Him, and so assured me of my everlasting safety in Him and His finished salvation, that by and by, when from those outward chambers o...

"A time to weep, and a time to laugh." -Ecclesiastes 3:4 [KJV] Does a man only weep once in his life? Does not the time of weeping run, more or less, through a Christian's life? Does not mourning run parallel with his existence in this tabernacle of clay? for "man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upwards."  Then "a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up"  must run parallel with a Christian's life, just as much as "a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance."   Living souls will know many times to weep; they will have often to sigh and cry over their base hearts; to mourn with tears of godly sorrow their backslidings from God; to weep over their broken idols, faded hopes, and marred prospects; to weep at having so grieved the Spirit of God by their disobedience, carnality, and worldliness; to be melted into contrition at the feet of a dying Lord, so as...

"Love is of God." -I John 4:7 [KJV] Love is a gift which the risen Mediator has received that He may freely communicate it out of His fulness to His people. And we must be brought to feel that it is a gift. Could we produce or keep it alive in our own hearts, we should burn incense to our own skill or our own care. Some perhaps will scarcely believe that a child of God can feel enmity against Christ; but his carnal mind is unmitigated enmity against him.  And oh, what a cutting feeling it is for a follower of the Lamb to have a principle in him which hates Christ; hates, bitterly hates His Person, hates His holiness and purity; which could join in the cry, "Crucify Him, crucify Him," and push and strike him with the Roman soldiers and the Jewish rabble. Unless painful experience convinced us that there was such a dreadful principle within, we could not believe that there was this devilish enmity in our heart against Him whom our souls desire to love and...

"We believe, and are sure..."   - John 6:69 [KJV] Here is both faith and assurance. I wish to the Lord I had them, is the language of many a doubting heart, while they have both this very faith and assurance. This assurance is of the essence of faith. Without it faith has no existence.  Consider, (1st.) The nature of this faith and assurance. “We believe and are sure.”  Of what? That their names were written in heaven, that they were sure they were the elect of God? No. But, says St. Peter to our Lord, “We believe, and are sure, that Thou art Christ the Son of the living God, and that Thou hast the words of eternal life.”  Their minds were as sure of this truth, as of their existence. So must ours at all times, and under all circumstances. But is this faith and assurance? Then, blessed be God, I am a partaker of both.  I do believe, I am sure, that Christ is the Son of God, and that He, and He alone, hath the words of eternal life. But I want to be s...

"For I know that ye seek Jesus which was crucified."   -Matthew 28:5 [KJV] Is it indeed known unto my Lord that I seek Him? Doth Jesus know that I desire Him more than my necessary food? Ye angels of light that watched over His sepulchre, do ye witness for me that He is more precious to me than gold, yea, than the golden wedge of Ophir. And can I, do I, humbly appeal to Him that readeth the heart, and knoweth all things, and say, "Thou knowest, Lord, that I love Thee!" Be comforted, then, my soul: He whom thou seekest will soon be found of thee. He is near at hand. He hath never been a wilderness to His people; neither hath He ever said to the praying seed of Jacob, "Seek ye My face in vain."  While thou art seeking Him, He is looking on thee. And the very desire in thine heart of seeking Him, it is Jesus hath kindled. And nothing can be more sure than that He who kindled them in thine heart, did not kindle them in vain. Sweet thought; I bless...