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

"Emmanuel, GOD with us."   - Matthew 1:23 [KJV]   This is the mystery which holy angels pry into, infernal devils envy, proud infidels reject with derision, humble sinners glory in, and which all the redeemed around the throne above are incessantly shouting, and everlastingly triumphing in. “Till God in human flesh I see, My thoughts no comfort find: The holy, just, and sacred Three Are terrors to my mind.” This is the language of every sin-convinced, spiritually-enlightened soul. O how did we talk of God in nature’s darkness, when we were without Christ, having no hope, and without God in the world, even Atheists! But now, O wonder of converting grace! we see, we believe, we know God with us. This is the chief glory of our faith, the chief joy of our hearts.    (1st.) God with us, in the eternal council and covenant before time. There He had our persons in view, our case at heart, and undertook to be our Surety, our Jesus. Lo, we were then given to Hi...

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us."   -John 1:14 [KJV]   Turn aside, my soul, this day, from every vain and worldly thought, as Moses did at the bush, and behold by faith the accomplishment of what he then saw in type and figure, of this great sight which the Lord hath made known unto thee. The Word, the uncreated Word, even the eternal Son of God, taking upon Him the nature of man, and uniting both in one Person, that by the union He might be a suitable Saviour for His people.    As God, He was mighty to save, and fully competent to the wonderful act. As man; He was a suitable Saviour, for the right of redemption belonged to Him. And as both, He, and He alone, could become a proper Mediator, to reconcile and bring together God and man, which by sin were at variance.   This was the glorious news angels posted down from heaven to proclaim. This was the song of heaven, for which they sung "glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace,...

"Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men." -Philippians 2:6, 7 [KJV] The humanity of our blessed Lord was actual flesh and blood from the moment of its conception, a perfect human body, to which was united a perfect human soul; both without sin, or else He could not be the Lamb without blemish; both without sin, or His pure humanity would not have been that " holy thing " born of the Virgin, which should be called the Son of God. Thus He came forth as the Lamb of God, without spot or blemish. Well indeed might the apostle say, "Great is the mystery of godliness." Here as in a glass we see the wonderful love of Jesus, that He who is the Sort of God, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and the Holy Ghost, a sharer of the Father's essence, of the Father's glory, should stoop so low to l...