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

     Christ is the Rock of the church, the foundation stone upon which the church is built and the chief cornerstone by which the church is measured and held together. The elect of God are the little stones which make up the walls of the church.  The grace, truth, and love of Christ make up the mortar by which all the little stones are held together. In all this, we see how “the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in Whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit” (Ephesians 2:21-22) .  When men deny or ignore the grace of God in Christ, when they leave the truth of God in Christ, or when they act  without grace, truth, and love in Christ, the church is divided. But rest assured that the true church of the living God cannot and will not be destroyed because as Christ goes, so goes the church – “upon this Rock I will build MY church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matt...

"Forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord."   -I Corinthians 15:58 [KJV] Christian knowledge is the source of comfort, and the spring of obedience. The knowledge of God’s love to us in Christ, received into the heart by faith, animates us to be, and to do, what the Lord calls us to in our lives. St. Paul appeals to Christians, Ye know—what? that you are called, not to loiter, but to labour: not to stand idle, but to work: not merely to talk of the truths of Christianity, but to walk in the ways of the Lord. But what constitutes it the sweetest of all labouring, working, and walking, it is the labour of love, the work of faith, and the walk of hope. And we have Christ’s presence and power in all. We know, we are fully persuaded, we are divinely assured, our labour is not in vain: for it is in the Lord. It is begun by His grace, tarried on by His power, IN sweet fellowship with Him, IN love to Him, IN dependence on him, IN assurance that we are accepted ...

"They made me keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept." -Song of Solomon 1:6 [KJV] My soul, now the day is over, sit down, and look back on the employments of it. What a day hath it been? What portion of it hath been engaged in the service of thy Lord, and the improvement of thy soul? How wholly occupied in the busy and imperious demands of the world, the care of the body, and in procuring the bread that perisheth! Surely the complaint of the church is thine also. Keeper of the vineyards of others, thine own goeth to waste! And of what avail, in the path of grace, if though occupied by a thousand things in the aid of others, thou art making no progress in the heavenly road by thine own soul?    Are not the peace of thy life, and the glorious expectation of a better, to be advanced in the knowledge and enjoyment of Jesus? If I lose sight of Thee, Thou dear Immanuel; if the lively actings of faith upon Thee be remitted, will the recollection of attention...

"And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment."  -Philippians 1:9 [KJV]   Love is especially the effect of knowledge; and love we know is a fruit of the blessed Spirit. As then the Lord the Spirit is pleased to open up the precious truth of God to the soul, love embraces what the Holy Ghost reveals. Thus there is a knowledge of the only true God by the teaching of the Spirit. But our love is to abound not only in knowledge, which is the foundation of it, because if there is no knowledge of the Lord there can be no love to the Lord or His people, but also in all feeling, in all sense, in all experience. Spiritual knowledge, therefore, and experimental feeling are the two feeders of Christian love; the two streams, as it were, that run side by side out of the very throne of the most High, and meet and melt into that boundless river, love. And it is by this union of knowledge and experience, of divine light and heavenly life, of t...

He Will Make It Good   Look to Christ and not to yourself! He is our Surety from everlasting to everlasting. In the covenant of mercy He assumed full responsibility for our, redemption, and He will make it good. His righteous­ness is perfect, and in Him it is mine. His atone­ment is sufficient to cleanse me from all sin. His intercession, based upon His person and work, must prevail with our reconciled God. " By His stripes we are healed ."                        -preacher Henry T. Mahan     Disobedience     One word explains sin: Disobedience.   Romans 5:19 says, “For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners…”   One man. One act of disobedience. And through that one act, many were made sinners. All sin is, at its core, an act of rebellion against God. Because of Adam’s disobedience, sin entered the world, and there is nothing any son o...

“But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags...” (Isaiah 64:6) I came before God with nothing to offer Him. Even my righteousness was nothing but filthy rags. But what I could never provide for myself, Christ provided for me. He took my sin and gave me His righteousness. He took my guilt and gave me His peace. He took my poverty and made me rich in grace.   “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.” —II Corinthians 8:9 Salvation is the great exchange: my rags for His righteousness, my debt for His payment, my poverty for His riches.   I brought nothing to Christ but my need. He gave me everything in Himself.                               -preacher David Eddmenson

“Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation (- atonement ) for the sins of the people."   - Hebrews 2:17 [KJV]   Those who are blessed to hear and believe the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ do not embrace or prescribe to a theory of atonement. In the Lord Jesus Christ and Him crucified we have a glorious atonement for all our sins by His precious blood (I John 4:10) . We don't have an "attemptment" we have an effectual and full atonement. Here are four things we know about His redeeming sacrifice and High Priestly work.   1). It is particular. The Lord Jesus laid down His life for His covenant people, all those chosen and given to Him in eternity (Matthew 1:21; John 6:37; 10:15-18; Ephesians 1:3-6) .   2). It is powerful. His blood sacrifice puts away all sins of His elect to the complete satisfaction of the holy Law and in...