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

  "Yet a little while, and the world seeth M e no more; but ye see M e: because I live, ye shall live also." - J OHN 14:19 [KJV] Communion with Christ rests on three things—seeing Him by faith, living upon His life, and experiencing His manifested presence. But all these three things depend on His resurrection and a knowledge of its power. As risen from the dead, the saints see Him; as risen from the dead, they live a life of faith upon Him; as risen from the dead, He manifests Himself unto them; and as life and feeling spring up in their souls from sweet communion with Him, the power of His resurrection becomes manifest in them. This communion, therefore, with the Lord Jesus as a risen Head all the reconciled and justified saints of God are pressing forward after, according to the measure of their grace and the life and power of God in their soul. It is indeed often sadly interrupted and grievously broken through by the sin that dwelleth in us. But the principle...

The seventeenth chapter of the gospel of John is saturated with giving. The Father has given the Son "power over all flesh." That ability and authority is His to "give eternal life." Eternal life is made sure because Christ "finished the work that Thou gavest M e to do." Then Christ says, "I have given them Thy word." It is a word of giving, the Word of the grace of God. All things given by God in Christ. Then He says, "And the glory which Thou gavest M e I have given them." "Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given M e be with M e where I am; that they may behold My glory, which Thou has given M e: for Thou lovest Me before the foundation of the world." But in verse six is the highlight of God's amazing grace. "I have manifested Thy name unto the men which thou gavest M e out of the world: T hine they were, and THOU GAVEST THEM ME: and they have kept Thy word." God has given to His Son a pe...