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

What a Magnificent Name , Part I by DG Miles McKee   The Lord Jesus Christ!  ---What a magnificent name.    When we call our Master the Lord, we are declaring He is the Sovereign.   When we call Him Jesus, we are declaring He is the Savior.   When we call Him Christ, we are declaring that He is the Sufficient One.   He is Sovereign, Savior and Sufficient. What a marvelous combination of saving power and wisdom.   To say that someone is ‘LORD’ is to admit that they are the one in charge.   Jesus continually demonstrated His Lordship and sovereignty over all things thus proving continually that He was and is God.     He was Lord over all nature and with a single word calmed a storm.     He demonstrated that He was Lord over death by raising the dead.   He demonstrated His sovereignty over Satan each time He cast out demons.   Sovereignty is God’s domain! Is it any wonder then that Jesus gave a continual demonstrati...

"Nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine."  -I Timothy 4:6 [KJV] Many a soul is saying, Alas! I hear and hear again, and do not see that I am profited. I obtain little or no comfort from what I hear.  Consider, (1st.) what you hear. Is it the words of faith, and of good doctrine? There is more danger in words than we are aware of. Words convey corrupt ideas to the mind, and nourish vain hopes and false confidences in the heart. They subvert the promises, and pervert the soul. Many words of this sort have obtained amongst us. Such as the merit of works—perhaps you start at that. You would not hear preachers who use the phrase. But these amount to just the same thing, the terms of the gospel—the conditions of salvation. These are not the words of faith, nor of good doctrine; not the words which the Holy Ghost teaches. They are the words of man’s proud wisdom.  They were hatched in the church of Rome, and are contended for by the greatest enemies...

"Whether our brethren be inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ."   -II Corinthians 8:23 [KJV] What a blessed account is here given of the children of God to all inquiries concerning them. See, my soul, whether thy experience corresponds to it, and mark their character. They are not only brethren to one another, but to Christ also; for we are told that He is not ashamed to call them brethren . Precious condescending, Saviour! Moreover, they are the messengers of the churches. What is that? A messenger, in scripture, is called also an angel. And if the brethren of Jesus do know, and can speak of Him as His people should, then are they like angels come down from the court of heaven, to relate what they have seen and known, of the King in His beauty, and their hearts glow with a warmth of earnestness to proclaim His glory, and His love to poor sinful creatures here below.  Neither is this all. For they are the glory of Chri...

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." -I John 1:9 [KJV] “He is faithful and just.”  Oh, what a word is that! There is scarcely to my mind such a word in the Bible as that; so great, so glorious, so comforting: “He is faithful and just.”  “Just” say you, “why I know that God’s mercy and God’s grace can pardon sinners; but how can God be just, and pardon transgressors? Does not God’s justice demand the punishment of sin? Does not God's justice blaze forth in eternal lightnings against the soul that transgresses His holy law? How, then, can it be true, that God can be just, and yet forgive a confessing sinner?" But it is true, divinely True, blessedly, eternally true. And in it is locked up that grand mystery of redemption by the blood and obedience of God's co-equal Son. It is locked up in this one word—"just." "But how?" it may be asked. In this way. The Lor...

"The times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the LORD." - Acts 3:19 [KJV] Who shall these times come to? Every sinner that repents and turns to Christ for salvation. From whence shall they come? From the presence of the Lord. Here then it is manifest, whether you have repented and turned to the Lord.  If so, (1st.) your soul will delight in God’s presence.  (2d.) You will earnestly long for and highly prize these refreshing seasons.  (3d.) You will say with David, “Thou art my God; my times are in Thy hands. I will bless the LORD at all times: His praise shall be continually in my mouth”   (Psalm 31:14-15 & 34:1.)  Hence, (4th.) you will turn from your sins, your self-righteous hopes, carnal pleasures, and worldly vanities, to seek all your happiness in the enjoyment of the presence of the Lord.  And, (5th.) you will wait in the patience of faith, for the coming of refreshing seasons, believing they shall come. Is it now a ...

"It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto Me." -John 6:45 [KJV] Mark, my soul, these precious words of thy Jesus. It was one of the old testament promises, that all God's children should be taught of Him. And as this condescension of God, in teaching, implied the Father, so the blessed consequence and effect of it should be, that every one thus taught proved his being a child, and inclined his heart to come to God in Christ as a Father. My soul, art thou come? Art thou looking to, leaning upon, trusting in, walking with, and seeking for Jesus? Is He the LORD thy righteousness , thine only righteousness, thine only hope, thine only confidence? Dost thou, like the apostle, count all things else but dung and dross to win Christ, and to be found in Him? Courage then, my soul!  These are blessed tokens of thine adoption character. None but God the Father,...

"That He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." -Romans 3:26 [KJV] Every created thing, every finite intelligence, must sooner be annihilated, than Jehovah can sacrifice, or suffer the slightest tarnish to come over any one of His eternal attributes. Yet God can be just, infinitely just, scrupulously just, unchangeably just - and yet, preserving His attribute of justice unchanging and unchangeable, He can still be "the justifer of him which believeth in Jesus."  The way by which this was effected will take a countless eternity to understand, and a boundless eternity to admire and adore. But what is meant by the expression "the justifier?" "The justifer"  means, that God can count man as righteous, can freely pardon his sins, can graciously accept his person, can impute to him righteousness without works, and can bring him to the eternal enjoyment of Himself. And who is the character that He thus brings to...