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

Note in Scripture how many times the blood is said to be "before the Lord" Whether any man saw it or not was of small account, for it was offered for sin "before the Lord." When the Passover lamb was slain in Egypt, where was the blood placed? It was on the OUTSIDE of the door, "before the Lord." He said, "When I see the blood I will pass over you." The suffering and death of Christ on behalf of His people was "before the Lord" - UNTO the Lord, to declare the Lord’s righteousness, to satisfy the Lord’s justice, to fulfill the Lord’s purpose, to glorify the Lord’s character, to enable the Lord to be both just and Justifier! The atonement does not change the NATURE and the character of God, but rather the atonement HONORS and MAGNIFIES the character of God. The death of Christ is NOT the cause of God’s love, but the result of it. God is not merciful because Christ died; Christ died because God is merciful. In order

  "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of M y hand." -J OHN 10:28 [KJV] The Lord said, "I give unto them (that is, My sheep) eternal life ;" not, "I will give them in the life to come; but I give it unto them now." We therefore read, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life" -- has it now, as a present, felt, and enjoyed possession. This life is given manifestly when Christ reveals Himself to the soul; for eternal life is then received out of His fulness as an enjoyed possession. All, then, who have truly fled for refuge, to lay hold of the hope set before them, embrace in so doing eternal life. They live, as being manifestly in Christ, for He is "our life;" and as they embrace it in Him they feel its sweet movements in their breast, in the joy it communicates, in the peace it imparts, in the prospects it opens, in the doubts it removes, in t