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

“ ... H E [ Christ ] SAVED THEM from the hand of him that hated them, and REDEEMED THEM from the hand of the enemy .” -Psalm 106:10 [KJV] “ Due to Adam’s disobedience, I was judicially constituted by God to be a sinner. Due to Christ’s obedience unto death, I was judicially constituted by God to be a saint. I was made unrighteous in the one, and I was made righteous in the Other. I am a sinner due to the fall of Adam; I am a saint due to the life, death and resurrection of * the last Adam ( the Lord Jesus Christ ).”   - Gospel report by preacher Jim Byrd *see I Corinthians 15:45-49 [KJV]

“ We won't make much headway in finding a solution if we do not understand the problem. A cure is not likely to be found if we have no knowledge of the disease. In the matter of salvation the problem is man's sin; the solution is God's grace. The disease is moral depravity and spiritual inability; the remedy is God's mercy in Christ. If a man is near-sighted, he only needs corrective glasses but if he is blind, he needs the miracle of sight! If a man is sick, he only needs medicinal aid, but if he is dead, he needs the miracle of life! If man has only strayed from the way, he needs directions, but if he is completely lost, he needs to be found! Here is the question to be settled by preachers and people 'What happened in the garden?' When one feels obliged to come to some conclusions on the subjects of election, irresistible grace and particular redemption, it would be wise for him to first determine the condition of the sinner who is to be saved. I

"For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty." -Isaiah 44:3 [KJV] Thirst, as a feeling of the soul, in a spiritual sense, is certainly indicative of divine life. It is as impossible, spiritually viewed, for a man dead in sin to thirst after a living God, as for a corpse in the graveyard to thirst after a draught of cold water from the well. I know for myself that such a feeling as thirsting after God had no place in my bosom until the Lord was pleased to quicken my soul into spiritual life. I had heard of God by the hearing of the ear. I had seen Him in creation, in the starry sky, in the roaring sea, in the teeming earth; I had read of Him in the Bible; I had learnt His existence by education and tradition; and I had some apprehensions of His holiness in my natural conscience; but as to any spiritual thirsting after Him, any earnest desire to fear Him, know Him, believe in Him, or love Him,— no such experience or feeling, I can say for myself, ever dwelt in m