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

"Put Me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified."   -Isaiah 43:26 [KJV] The Lord had just laid open the rich love of His gracious heart to poor sinners, in fully blotting out their transgressions and in not remembering their sins. To keep down their pride and exalt the riches of His mercy, He tells them plainly, I do all this, for My own sake. But He knows what is in man. He sees the abominable pride of our hearts, and how many would reject His free declaration, and not accept of free-grace mercy, by free-gift of love, without money and without price. Such will have some hand in procuring pardon and justification, by fulfilling terms, and performing conditions.  These words may be considered, (1st.) as a reflection upon such persons, and a derision upon their notions. Says the Lord, Put Me in remembrance . What spiritual act could you do, when dead in trespasses and in sins, in order to obtain life? What good works sprang ...

"It pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief." - Isaiah 53:10 [KJV] The depths of wisdom were explored to furnish redemption, and to find a person competent to accomplish it; and when found, the depths of love were broken up, to make it complete. My soul, read over the mysterious volume which the Lord hath in part opened before thee. It cost the Father His thoughts from all eternity, to appoint a plan, by which, consistently with His holiness and His justice, thou mightest be saved. It cost the Father His Son, His dear Son, His only Son, before that thou couldest be redeemed. Jesus must die ere thou canst live. Pause over the subject as it is here expressed. "It pleased the Father to bruise Him."  Jesus, who was in Himself holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; He, who knew no sin, must be made sin; He who never merited wrath, must be made a curse. Read on; Jesus must die! and by whom? Not by...

"Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth."  - Hebrews 12:6 [KJV] Does not James say, "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation?" And again, "Count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations?"       Why? Is there any joy in trials, any pleasure in sorrow? No, none. But in the deliverance from the Lord; in the power of God put forth to bring the soul out; there is joy there. And, therefore, we have to walk in a dark path to make the light dear to our eyes; we have to pass through trials to taste the sweetness of the promises when applied with power; we have to endure temptations, that we may enjoy the sweetness of deliverance. And this is the way, be sure of it, that God deals with His people. Is your conscience made honest? Does that monitor in your bosom speak the truth? Tell me what it says. Does it not say, "Few trials, few consolations; few sorrows, few joys; few difficulties, few testimonies from God;...

"I, even I am He, who blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins."   - Isaiah 43:25 [KJV] With tears of joy and emotions of love, my once dearly beloved and much honoured friend, now with Jesus, the late Mr. Jones, minister of St. Saviour’s, told me, the awful charges which precede, and the free and unmerited grace which is proclaimed in this text, made the first impressions of the Saviour’s love upon his heart. O that the Lord of all grace may give us some comfort from it to-night!  Here grace shines with meridian splendour; here grace gloriously reigns, over all the aboundings of sin: here grace sweetly triumphs over all the baseness and unworthiness of the sinner. In the two former verses, God arraigns the culprit, reads a black catalogue of indictment against him, and concludes with, “Thou hast made Me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied Me with thine iniquities.”  The sinner is struck dumb. He dare not deny it...

"Come, see the place where the Lord lay."   - Matthew 28:6 [KJV] Lord, I would desire grace to accept the call, for it is always profitable to have faith in lively exercise: I would pray that my meditation might frequently take wing, and view the memorable sepulchre of my Lord. Did Jesus once lay in the grave? Surely death never had such a prisoner before! But did Jesus lay so low for me? Am I shortly to lay there? Sweet consoling thought! The grave is now softened, and the chambers of death are perfumed with the fragrancy contracted from His holy incorruptible body. But is there not another place where the Lord lay? And doth not the angel invite His people to see Him there also? Yes, Jesus lay in the bosom of the Father from all eternity. And doth He not lay there now, and will He not through all eternity? But can I see him there? Yes;—for if by faith I behold Jesus as the Christ, the Sent, the Sealed of the Father; in seeing Him, I see the Father also.  He sai...

"For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me." -Psalm 109:22 [KJV] The needy is a character who is not merely poor, empty, and naked before God, but who is feelingly in want of spiritual blessings applied to his soul. Some persons can rest on temptations, and take temptations as evidences. Others can build on doubts and fears, and rest on doubts and fears as evidences. Some can take powerful past convictions, or present convictions, and lean on them as evidences. Others can look to a profession of religion, and take that as an evidence.  But a living soul must have heavenly blessings communicated immediately to his heart and conscience from the mouth of God. He must have deliverance manifested to his soul as a reality; he must have the blood of Jesus sprinkled on his conscience with divine power, to purge it from filth and dead works; he must have his eyes anointed with eye-salve to see Jesus; yea, his soul pants to be led up into sweet communion ...

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...