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

"Beloved of God, called to be saints." -Romans 1:7 [KJV] The very word "saint" has become, through man's perverseness and wickedness, a word of reproach and contempt. But God will honour it, let men dishonour it as they please. God has put a crown of glory upon it, let men despise it as they may. There is no privilege or blessing that God can confer so great and glorious as to crown you with the crown of saint. He might have given you titles without number; H e might have showered riches upon your head in the greatest profusion; rank, fame, talent, beauty, health, all might have been poured at your feet; but what would all these be compared to making you a saint of God? But what is it to be a saint? It is to be sanctified by God the Father, set apart for H imself, to shew forth H is praise. It is to be washed in the atoning blood and clothed in the justifying righteousness of the Son, and to be regenerated by the Spirit of God. It ...

"He hath shined in our hearts to  give the light of the knowledge of  the glory of God in the face  of Jesus Christ" -II Corinthians 4:6 [KJV] The knowledge of the glory of God we now see in the face of Jesus Christ is THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL OF HIS GRACE; it is the glorious counsel and covenant mercies in Christ; it is that Gospel whereby He shows mercy to whom He will show mercy and is gracious to whom He will be gracious. The glory of God which He has revealed to our hearts is that righteous life and sin-offering which enables God to be just and justifier. This knowledge of the glory of God in Christ is not a mere head knowledge of fact and doctrines, but it is a life-giving, heart experience of the power, love, grace, and wisdom of God whereby we cry, "Father, Father." Christ has fully declared God, revealed Him, interpreted Him, and brought God out where He may be seen. Christ is the full revelation of the living God to which NO OTHER REVE...