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

“ For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified .” - I CORINTHIANS 2:2 [KJV] Jesus Christ and Him crucified is the way in which God displays His perfections, unfolds His purposes, maintains His rights, confounds His foes, and secures His glory in the salvation of His people. Jesus Christ and Him crucified is the only way in which death is destroyed, sin is conquered, righteousness is established, rebels are reconciled, saints are sanctified, and Heaven is opened! – Author unknown

"Love is of God." -I JOHN 4:7 [KJV] Love is a gift which the risen Mediator has received that He may freely communicate it out of His fulness to His people. And we must be brought to feel that it is a gift. Could we produce or keep it alive in our own hearts, we should burn incense to our own skill or our own care. Some perhaps will scarcely believe that a child of God can feel enmity against Christ; but his carnal mind is unmitigated enmity against Him. And oh, what a cutting feeling it is for a follower of the Lamb to have a principle in him which hates Christ; hates, bitterly hates His Person, hates His holiness and purity; which could join in the cry, "Crucify H im, crucify H im," and push and strike Him with the Roman soldiers and the Jewish rabble. Unless painful experience convinced us that there was such a dreadful principle within, we could not believe that there was this devilish enmity in our heart against Him whom our souls desire to

“ Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; b ut with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” - I PETER 1:18- 19 [KJV] Christ redeems us from all sin and from all the consequences of sin. He endured the wrath of God to the uttermost for everyone who believes on Him. By this redemption justice is satisfied, wrath is pacified, grace is procured, all spiritual enemies are vanquished. Each child of God is redeemed from the love of sin, the guilt of sin, the dominion of sin, the damnatory power of sin, the power of Satan, the curse of the law, hell and wrath to come! The work of redemption was a great work. The greatness of the person employed in this work speaks out the work to be a great work. The great and invaluable price which was paid down for our redemption, speaks it out to be a great redemption. The price tha