Salvation Belongs to the Lord

Salvation belongs to the Lord
Posted by Bill Brown

Psalm 3:8 Salvation belongs to the LORD; Thy blessing be upon Thy people! Selah.

Charles Spurgeon writes:

This verse contains the sum and substance of Calvinistic doctrine. Search Scripture through, if you must, if you read it with a candid mind, be persuaded that the doctrine of salvation by grace alone is the greatest doctrine of the Word of God: Salvation belongeth unto the Lord. This is a point concerning which we are daily fighting. Our opponents say, “Salvation belongs to the free will of man; if not to man’s merit, yet at least to man’s will.” But we hold and teach that salvation from first to last, in every iota of it, belongs to the Most High God. It is God that chooses His people. He calls them by his grace; brings them life by his Spirit, and keeps them by his power. It is not of man, neither by man (Romans 9:16). May we all learn this truth in our experience, for our profound flesh and blood will never permit us to learn it any other way. In the last sentence the peculiarity and speciality of salvation are plainly stated: thy blessing is upon they people. Neither upon Egypt, nor upon Tyre, nor upon Nineveh; thy blessing is upon thy chosen, thy blood-bought, thine everlastingly-beloved people. Selah: lift up your hearts, and pause, and meditate upon this doctrine. “Thy blessing is upon they people.” Divine, discriminating, distinguishing, eternal, infinite, immutable love is a subject for constant adoration. Pause, my soul, at this Selah, and consider your own interest in the salvation of God; and if by humble faith you are enabled to see Jesus as yours by his own free gift of himself to you, if this greatest of all blessings is upon you, rise and sing “Hallelujah!”

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