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

"...Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that He Himself also is compassed with infirmity" -Hebrews 5:2 [ KJ V] Thanks be unto God for our compassionate and faithful High Priest, Jesus Christ ( Heb rews 2:17 ) . Our blessed Saviour knows our frame; He knows that we are but sinful dust ( Psalm 103:13-14 ) . But in spite of all that we are ( Psalm 39:5 ) and all that we have done ( Rom ans 3:23 ) the Lord is longsuffering and compassionate toward His children ( II Peter 3:9 ) . So much that He loves the unlovely ( Rom ans 5:8 ) , so much that Christ justifies the ungodly ( Rom ans 4:5 ) , so much that the Redeemer died to save sinners ( Rom ans 5:6 ) . We read that His compassions fail not and are new every morning ( Lam entations 3:22 ) . We read when He saw a multitude of sinners as sheep that were scattered having no shepherd, He was moved with compassion ( Matt hew 9:36 ) . What a blessed Shepherd

"There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus" -Romans 8:1 [KJV] The freedom of the believer is just what it is declared to be - entire exemption from condemnation. From all which that word of significant and solemn import implies, he is, by his relation to Christ, delivered. Sin does not condemn him, the law does not condemn him, the curse does not condemn him, hell does not condemn him, God does not condemn him. He is under no power from these, beneath whose accumulated and tremendous woe all others wither. A brief and simple argument will, perhaps, be sufficient to establish this fact. The pardon of sin necessarily includes the negation of its condemnatory power. There being no sin legally alleged, there can be no condemnation justly pronounced. Now, by the sacrifice of Christ all the sins of the Church are entirely put away. He, the sinless Lamb of God, took them up and bore them away into a land of oblivion, where e