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

“ The moment the believer seeks to be better by doing or by applying to the law, we immediately give ourselves to the dominion of the law and from that moment until we are ‘plucked as firebrands from the burning, by grace’ we will become more weighted down by the fetters and shackles of sin..the remedy for such a life is to walk in the Spirit and being led by the Spirit you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, and you will not operate under the dominion of the law.”    -Gospel report by preacher Tim James Sequoyah Baptist Church in Cherokee, North Carolina USA Audio Sermons & Contact Information here:   https://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?SpeakerOnly=true&currSection=sermonsspeaker&keyword=Tim%5EJames

Each glorious person in the Godhead has a glorious part in our salvation. GOD THE FATHER chose, sanctified, and set us apart in Christ before the world was; GOD THE SON took our humanity into union to His personal Godhead, was made flesh, lived a perfect life, suffered and died a solemn death, rose again from the dead, and is now exalted at the right hand of the Father, ever living to make intercession for us; GOD THE SPIRIT awakened the dead and "called us with a holy calling" (II Timothy 1:9) . This call is the solemn, soul-quickening, heart-rending call of the Holy God from death to life, from darkness to light, from the power of sin and Satan to the kingdom of the Son of His love. So that, BEFORE THE WORLD WAS , the church was saved purposely by God the Father; IN TIME meritoriously by, the God-man, Christ Jesus, who now lives above, their Mediator, High Priest, and Advocate; and IN THE DAY OF GOD'S POWER (Psalm 110:3) they are saved manifestly...

There is nothing to this world for a believer. How true this is in one sense for we "are not of this world." The Christ that we love said, "The world hates you because it hates M e." If we were of the world, if our value system was the same as its, if our purposes and goals were the same and if our views of God, man, Christ and the way God saves sinners were the same, the world would love us! Since our only rule of what we believe and what we are to do is the Holy Scriptures, we are therein described as pilgrims and sojourners, just passing through this world. A wilderness it is but God, as He did for Israel, feeds us with manna from on high and spreads a table for us in this wilderness. It is THE GOSPEL FEAST that blesses us on this journey. It is the gospel wherein the righteousness of God is revealed to the faith He gives. Like the manna, we are awakened in the morning of spiritual new birth to find the gift of righteousness already there in ...