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

"For by one offering H e hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." -Hebrews 10:14 [KJV]   To be "sanctified" is to be made a partaker of that holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord; to be made a new creature; to "put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness;" in a word, to be "made a partaker of the divine nature," and thus have the holiness of God breathed into and communicated to the soul. Without this inward sanctification, none can enter the gates of heaven. To be made meet, therefore, for the heavenly inheritance, you must have a heavenly heart and a praising, adoring, loving spirit; you must delight yourself in the Lord as being so holy and yet so gracious, so pure and yet so loving, so bright and glorious and yet so condescending and sympathising. Now this meetness for the holiness, happiness, and employments of heaven is communicated at regeneration, in which the ne...

“ Every declaration of God to the sinner is on the principle of Grace and Gift, NOT AN OFFER, which implies there is some capability in man to make use of the benefit offered. The "offer" of salvation is a denial of man's total depravity and ignores the Gospel truth of the new birth by the power of God .” -Gospel report by preacher John Hazelton (1853–1924 A.D.) IMPORTANT GOSPEL SERMON , “Offers and Invitations” by preacher Gary Shepard on SUN/10MAR19: https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=3101919541029

There has never been a time when the eternal Jehovah did not look to Christ, the Lamb slain, as the ground of all His blessings to and the salvation of His elect. As He said of that earthly people that picture His redeemed, " When I see the blood I will pass over you " (Exodus 12:13) . It was not when they saw it but when He saw it! When did God "see" the blood of His Son as the justice-satisfying sacrifice for the sins of His people?  "When" really doesn't apply to God Who beholds everything in all of time and eternity with one all-encompassing view. Without a doubt there is a progressive manifestation and revelation of the purpose and will of God's grace in Christ, but the unchanging God of eternal glory views and always has viewed all His grace children in Christ. Looking to Christ crucified, He loved them, chose them, established His everlasting covenant concerning them, all with an eye to "the blood." Looking to ...