Our Lord Jesus Christ is The Truth and all He says is true. He warns us of future troubles to prepare us for them. He tells us what is expedient and necessary for our salvation. He calls us to trust Him and lean on Him in all our ways.

Our union with the Lord Jesus Christ has gained us many blessings and benefits. By grace and the work of God we are a spiritual people, redeemed by blood and prepared for glory. We are not of this world but look for a city whose builder and maker is God.

The love of the Lord Jesus for His people is a rare and special blessing. Here the Saviour tells us how He loves us as His Father loves Him.

The Lord Jesus is the True Vine. All our spiritual life, grace and blessing comes as we abide in Him. Believers do abide in Him and He promises to freely supply all we need to make our lives fruitful for His Father’s glory.

The Lord Jesus adds promise upon promise, gift upon gift, blessing upon blessing to His troubled disciples as He prepares them for His suffering and departure.

God in three Persons; Father, Son and Holy Spirit are promised to every believer to live in our heart and unite with our soul. The Lord Jesus Christ tells His disciples that that they will be comforted upon His going away from them by the spiritual presence of the Holy Spirit and the coming of the Father and Son to abide with them.

The Apostles were called to preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Church was provided with the method, the men and the message to be preached. We do well to follow this pattern.

The Lord Jesus Christ is encouraging His disciples prior to leaving them at the time of His death. He teaches them the beautiful doctrine of His union with His Father and how their faith is to be directed to Him as the divine person and provider of all their needs. He will accomplish all His will and purpose and provide them the tools to secure the end.

The Lord Jesus comforts His disciples as they learn about His imminent death and departure. He comforts all His children with promises of His heavenly glory, His presence with us on earth and His divine power to accomplish our full salvation.

Guilt will silence a believer’s worship and witness. It did for David. He pleads therefore that the Lord would grant him evangelical repentance, which is a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart. When the Lord grants repentance for sin He will not despise or deny the appeal for forgiveness and the peace of conscience that a child of God seeks.

David pleaded for cleansing from his sin but he also asked that the Lord would restore to him the joy of salvation; the joy and gladness that the psalmist-prophet had lost. Here we consider what the essence of spiritual joy is, how Satan tries to trick us out of its experience and how it is to be recovered by those who have fallen into sin.

David's sins were great but His Saviour's grace is greater. In Psalm 51 the broken and humiliated sinner sought forgiveness from the LORD upon the promises of God's own covenant mercy and with an eye to the Lord Jesus Christ. David is an example for us all.

Jonah’s little book teaches us much about God’s sovereignty and dominion in this world. This is God's world and He is doing His good pleasure in it to do His people good and accomplish His purpose. May we all have a sense of the precious value of a soul that the Lord Jesus came to die for.

Jonah's anger at the Lord seems astonishing. How can such a thing be justified? It cannot. Nevertheless, we all are prone to Jonah's sin for our own personal reasons when Satan temps us to despair and we look for someone to blame. May we learn from Jonah and be protected by the same God who patiently cared for His wayward prophet.

By the free and sovereign grace of God the Gentile inhabitants of Nineveh were saved. God gifted them a faithful preacher in Jonah, repentance for their sin, forgiveness and faith in the blood of Christ and deliverance from judgment. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and for ever.

Jonah preached God’s gospel to Nineveh and the people of the city believed God. Here we see God’s mercy at work in the life of Jonah and in the lives of multitudes of Gentile sinners. The history of Jonah and Nineveh is an encouragement for us all to seek the grace of our merciful God.

When Jonah was in the belly of the fish he prayed and was heard by God. He confessed his sin, asked for deliverance and thanked God for his salvation. He declared 'Salvation is of the Lord'. This is the testimony of all who are delivered by the Lord Jesus Christ from their sins.

When Jonah was in the belly of the fish he cried to the Lord and the Lord heard him. The Lord will hear all who cry to him in faith from their afflictions. Here are some lessons from Jonah’s prayer.

The sign of Jonas points to the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Men and women say they are seek a sign by which they can  be convinced to believe in Jesus. There shall be no sign given beyond the death and resurrection of Christ. If you will not believe that you will not believe at all.

Jonah was a type of the Lord Jesus Christ. Here we hear Jonah’s testimony, see Him as a picture of Christ’s ransom and discover his comfort for those who die in the Lord.