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

  NO OTHER ONE BUT JESUS   Tune:  “O for a Thousand Tongues” Words by Jim Byrd   O what a Savior Jesus is, How suited to our need; He died to save us from our sins, For so it was decreed.   No other One could rescue us, No other One could save; To cleanse us from our guilt and shame, His life He freely gave.   Who else but Jesus Christ alone, The law could satisfy; He died upon the bloody tree, Our souls to justify.   Who else but God the Father’s Son, For us could intercede? His Name alone prevails with God, No other Name we plead.   O may the blood and righteousness, Of Jesus ever be; Our only trust and confidence, Our only hope and plea.   -------O-------          “…Blessed be Thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.  Thou, even Thou, art LORD alone; Thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all t...

     Last time we asked, “...where are your sins?” The answer came “He Himself ( Jesus ) has purged them!” That means they are gone! Our sins and their filth have been effectively taken away, once for all! Look around you, where are your sins? —They don’t exist—they are purged—they have been, not merely forgiven, they have been paid for and put away by blood, the blood of the God/Man.  Because of the cross we have been rendered clean! So where are your sins? I’ll tell you where. God said, “I will cast all their sins behind My back”   (Isaiah 38:17). But where is that?   Spurgeon, with his usual clarity tells us where. He says  “It is nowhere, for God is everywhere present, seeing everything. So that is where my sins have gone; I speak with the utmost reverence when I say that they have gone where Jehovah Himself can never see them. Christ has so purged them that they have ceased to be.” Our sins are now done away with in Him.  Believe this ...

"My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad." -Psalm 34:2 [KJV]   There was a poor, vainglorious boaster, who had arrived to the summit of his happiness, and attained the zenith of his glory. The sun of prosperity shone with great splendour upon him. He bid adieu to all care. Down he sat to solace himself. “Soul!” said he, “thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease: eat, drink, and be merry.” But, awful moment! solemn speech! God said unto him, “Thou fool! this night thy soul shall be required of thee” (Luke 12:20.) O how many such fools are there, who think the soul can be made happy, in outward ease, eating and drinking, and carnal enjoyments. Alas! one moment dashes the honey of their comforts, into the gall of disappointment.    Not so, that soul who boasts in the Lord. This was not a transient fit of David’s, caused by a warm frame of the passions. For, says he, “I will bless the Lord at all times: His ...

"The house of the Rechabites." -Jeremiah 35:2 [KJV]   My soul, as the prophet had his commission from the Lord, to go unto the house of the Rechabites, and the Holy Ghost hath been pleased to have the event of the visit recorded; do thou go down to it also, and see what instructions thou canst gather there, under His gracious teachings, for thine evening meditation.    The house of the Rechabites drank no wine. And was not this to intimate the law of the Nazarites? Surely there was a reference, in this prohibition, to the one glorious Nazarite, even Jesus! The Rechabites had no fixed dwelling-place, but lived in moveable tents; and believers in Jesus, like their Lord Himself, have "here no abiding city, but are seeking one to come." Hence, when the King of Babylon came into the land where the Rechabites had no fixed abode, they had no attachment to the place, and therefore the more readily took their departure.   Such, my soul, will be the case with thee, in the l...

"I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Thy servant; for I do not forget Thy commandments." -Psalm 119:176 [KJV] If the Lord did not seek us, we should never seek the Lord. That is most certain. If you are one that seeks the Lord in prayer, in supplication, in secret desire, with many a heart rending groan, and often by night and by day, be well assured, that you would never have sought the Lord, had not the Lord first sought you. He is now seeking you. It may be (as you fear), some time before He finds you; but He will find you at last. How sweetly the Lord has set this forth in the parable of the lost sheep! The poor sheep has gone astray; and having once left the fold, it is pretty sure to have got into some strange place or other. It has fallen down a rock, or has rolled into a ditch, or is hidden beneath a bush, or has crept into a cave, or is lying in some deep, distant ravine, where none but an experienced eye and hand can find it out.    And so with the Lord'...

     "We cannot be spiritually strong unless we know truth and then act upon the truth we say we love. As a man loves so he lives. If a man loves his wife, he lives for her, provides for her, and protects her. If a man loves his church, he lives for it. If he loves Jesus Christ, which precedes everything, he lives for Christ. As a man believes so he behaves. If his love is the love that has been shed abroad in his heart in regeneration, he will love Jesus Christ and will love living for Christ. Faith and love will not spoil the believer in any kind of secular work. It will make him sacred in the midst of all the dangers of secularity." -preacher Wilbur Elias Best, excerpt from a message entitled,   Letter to the Church at Sardis

"For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come, it will not tarry." -Habakkuk 2:3 [KJV] My soul, there is always a set time to favour Zion. It may not be so early as we could wish; it may not come at the time we look for it; yea, it may be deferred until our impatience hath given over the very expectation of it; nevertheless, "it will surely come; it will not tarry." We are like children, who wish to gather the fruit before it is ripe; but there is no haste with God. He stops until the mercy, intended to be given us, is fully prepared, and our souls as fully ready to receive it. And what endears the mercy ( be it what it may ) yet more, is, that from everlasting it hath been appointed . "The vision is for an appointed time." So that, however tedious it may seem in coming, it will neither go a moment beyond the appointment, nor come a moment before: and ...