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

“ God forbid that I should glory ,  save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ ”     -Galatians 6:1 4 [KJV] David wrote, “The heavens declare the glory of God” (Psalm 19:1) , but the glories of redemption vastly outshine the magnificence of creation. All of the infinite perfections of God are harmoniously featured in the sacrificial, substitutionary death of Christ. At the cross we behold God’s determinate purpose, His everlasting love and His inflexible justice working together to bring about the salvation of unworthy sinners “to the praise of the glory of His grace” (Ephesians 1:6) . - Gospel report by preacher Jim Byrd, 13 th Street Baptist Church of Ashland, Kentucky USA Note: written (PDF) , audio Gospel messages & contact information here https://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?speakeronly=true&currsection=sermonsspeaker&keyword=Jim_Byrd

"For the word of God is quick, and powerful" -Hebrews 4:12 [KJV] What is meant by the word of God being "quick?" That it moves with swiftness and velocity? It is certainly said of God's word (Psalm 147:15) that "it runneth very swiftly;" but that is not the meaning of the word "quick" in the text. It there means "living," and corresponds with the expression "lively (or living) oracles," Acts 7:38 . It is an old English word signifying "living;" as in the expression, " W ho shall judge the quick and the dead" ( II Timothy 4:1) , that is, the living and the dead. So we read of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram "going down quick (that is, alive) into the pit" (Numbers 16:30) . So the Lord is said to have "quickened (that is, made spiritually alive) those who were dead in trespasses and sins" (Eph esians 2:1) . The word "quick," then, means not moving wit...