Articles and thoughts by Steve Green.

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February 26th, 2010

Salvation is the work of God. It is He alone who quickens the soul “dead in trespasses and sins,” and it is He also who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both “Alpha and Omega.” “Salvation is of the Lord.”If I am prayerful, God makes me prayerful; if I have graces, they are God’s gifts to me; if I hold on in a consistent life, it is because He upholds me with His hand. I do nothing whatever towards my own preservation, except what God Himself first does in me. Whatever I have, all my goodness is of the Lord alone. Where I sin, that is my own; but where I act rightly, that is of God, wholly and completely. If I have resisted a spiritual enemy, the Lord’s strength nerved my arm. Do I live before men a consecrated life? It is not I, but Christ who lives in me. Am I sanctified? I did not cleanse myself: God’s Holy Spirit sanctifies me. Am I weaned from the world? I am weaned by God’s chastisements sanctified to my good. Do I grow in knowledge? The great Instructor teaches me. All my jewels were fashioned by heavenly art. I find in God all that I want; but I find in myself nothing but sin and misery. “He only is my rock and my salvation.” Do I feed on the Word? That Word would be no food for me unless the Lord made it food for my soul, and helped me to feed upon it. Do I live on the manna that comes down from heaven? What is that manna but Jesus Christ himself incarnate, whose body and whose blood I eat and drink? Am I continually receiving fresh increase of strength? Where do I gather my might? My help comes from heaven’s hills: without Jesus I can do nothing. As a branch cannot bring forth fruit except it abide in the vine, no more can I, except I abide in Him. What Jonah learned in the great deep, let me learn this morning in my closet: “Salvation is of the Lord.” - Charles Spurgeon

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  1. Thank you so much for sharing this. I love C. Spurgeon. In a time where I am feeling inadequate to serve God because of physical problems, this is a great encouragement to me that I can do anything God wants me to do through the power of Christ. God bless you!

    Comment by Bethany — February 26, 2010 @ 6:47 pm

  2. “I believe in the doctrine of election because I am quite certain that, if God had not chosen me, I should never have chosen Him; and I am sure He chose me before I was born, or else He never would have chosen me afterwards; and He must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why He should have looked upon me with a special love.”
    Charles Spurgeon

    “If anyone should ask me what I mean by a Calvinist, I should reply, ‘He is one who says, Salvation is of the Lord.’”
    Charles Spurgeon

    Comment by Elizabeth Davis — February 28, 2010 @ 4:18 pm

  3. “It’s not what we’re going through that matters as much as where we’re going to.” That being said, I believe the journey is still important but it must be a journey made in the knowledge and grace of Christ sacrifice on our behalf. We must be like clay ready for the molding. Unfortunately, I must confess that I’ve “hardened” sometimes before God could finish molding me. That’s why it’s important to remain fresh (and soft like unhardened clay) in the fountain of his love and mercy. Thanks for sharing Steve.

    Comment by Mark La Flamme — March 11, 2010 @ 6:04 pm

  4. We are told scores of times in the New Testament to believe the gospel. What must I do to be saved? Believe the gospel.

    Comment by Joe La Bianca — December 3, 2010 @ 6:39 pm

  5. Thanks Steve for your music. God from His Word has taught me the hard way that all knowledge is a tool God uses to bless the righteous and the un-righteous alike, and that believing is a work. I’ve found the Grace that I hunger for through God’s Son cannot be through my knowledge or by my believing if its going to be Perfect and Trustworthy to lift my soul into paradise. So I found myself trembling at every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God beyond the milk of the word as the Spirit of Truth guides me into comparing spiritual things with spiritual, with meekness and humility. To make a very long story short it lead me to May 21, 2011 as the actual day of Judgment which like in Noah’s day will be mostly ignored by the world, and will be mocked by the religious.

    Comment by Scott — March 2, 2011 @ 1:22 am

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