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

The Best of Men Are Only Men at Their Very Best While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him " (Matthew 17:5). Let us see in these words a striking lesson to the whole Church of Christ. There is a constant tendency in human nature to "hear man"...bishops, priests, deacons, popes, cardinals, councils, preachers, and ministers, are continually exalted to a place which God never intended them to fill, and made practically to usurp the honor of Christ. Against this tendency let us all watch, and be on our guard. Let these solemn words of the vision ever ring in our ears, Listen to Christ! The best of men are only men at their very best ...patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs, church fathers, reformers, puritans; all, all are sinners, who need a Savior. They may be holy, useful, honorable in their place; but they are sinners after all. T...