{"id":6086,"date":"2012-09-22T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=6086"},"modified":"2012-09-21T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T18:23:23","slug":"salvation-is-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2012\/09\/22\/salvation-is-of-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvation is of the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Charles Haddon Spurgeon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From <strong>Jonah 2:9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Salvation is the work of God. It is He alone who quickens the soul &#8216;dead in trespasses and sins,&#8217; and it is He also who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both &#8216;Alpha and Omega.&#8217; &#8216;Salvation is of the Lord.&#8217; If I am prayerful, God makes me prayerful; if I have graces, they are God&#8217;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. Wherein I sin, that is my own; but wherein I act rightly, that is of God, wholly and completely. If I have repulsed a spiritual enemy, the Lord&#8217;s strength nerved my arm. Do I live before men a consecrated life? It is not I, but Christ who liveth in me. Am I sanctified? I did not cleanse myself: God&#8217;s Holy Spirit sanctifies me. Am I weaned from the world? I am weaned by <em>God&#8217;s<\/em> 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. &#8216;He only is my rock and my salvation.&#8217; 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 which 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 cometh from heaven&#8217;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: &#8216;Salvation is of the Lord.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>2.26a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Charles Haddon Spurgeon From Jonah 2:9 Salvation is the work of God. It is He alone who quickens the soul &#8216;dead in trespasses and sins,&#8217; and it is He also who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both &#8216;Alpha and Omega.&#8217; &#8216;Salvation is of the Lord.&#8217; If I am prayerful, God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spurgeon-saturday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6087,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions\/6087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}