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

Thy promise, Lord, is perfect peace, And yet my trials still increase; Till fears at times my soul assail, That Satan's rage must yet prevail. Then, Savior, then I fly to Thee, And in Thy grace my refuge see; Thou heard'st me from Thy holy hill, And Thou wilt hear and help me still. Beneath Thy wings secure I sleep; What foe can harm while Thou dost keep? I wake, and find Thee at my side, My omnipresent Guard and Guide! Oh why should earth or hell distress, With God so strong, so nigh to bless? From Him alone salvation flows; On Him alone, my soul, repose. Hymn, “Just As I Am” -Words by Henry F. Lyte and William H Bradbury

SALVATION BY SUBSTITUTION WAS EMBODIED IN THE FIRST PROMISE regarding the woman's seed and His bruised heel. Victory over our great enemy, by His subjecting Himself to the bruising of that enemy, is then and there proclaimed. - The clothing of our first parents with that which had passed through death, in preference to the fig leaves which had not so done, showed the element of SUBSTITUTION as that on which God had begun to act in His treatment of fallen man. - Abel's sacrifice revealed the same truth, especially as contrasted with Cain's. For that which made Abel's acceptable, and himself accepted, was the death of the victim as SUBSTITUTED FOR HIS OWN; that which rendered Cain's hateful, and himself rejected, was the absence of that death and blood. - The slain firstling was accepted by God as (symbolically) Abel’s SUBSTITUTE, laid on the altar till He should come, the “woman’s seed,” “...made of a woman, made under the law, to redee...

“ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast ” -Ephesians 2:8-9 [KJV] "BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED." There is no present salvation except that which begins and ends with grace! No man can preach or possess a present salvation except those who preach and believe that we are saved by grace alone! The Work is finished! Any other way of salvation is dependent on the sinner and it will fail. -Gospel report by preacher Henry Mahan Audio Gospel Sermon, “Jesus – Friend of Sinners” here: [33 min, 16 sec] https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=11180521541