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

Our modern English word atonement derives from the Middle English word meaning at-one-ment . It speaks of reconciliation between two estranged parties, making the two to become one. This concept is set forth in expressions like “the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him” (Leviticus 4:26, et.al.). When an Israelite sinned, he estranged himself from God. He therefore brought a sacrificial animal to the priest, who offered it before God upon His altar, and its blood covered the offender’s offense, obtained his forgiveness from God, and reconciled him unto God. All this was typical of what Jesus Christ, the High Priest over God’s people, has done for them. The atonement wrought by Jesus Christ is a gracious atonement. We see three proofs of this in Isaiah chapter 53, a foremost passage in Holy Scriptures regarding the atonement.      1. No one deserved this atonement (v.6a): “All we like sheep hav...

" I beg the reader to remark the burden of the angelic message: ‘ Glory to GOD in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men’ [LUKE 2:14] . Yes! the whole glory is GOD’S; because it is all founded in GOD; carried on in GOD; completed in GOD; and man is but the receiver of the mercies. Oh! that this was well understood by men! What an end would it put to all the pharisaical righteousness and pride of men!" - Gospel report by preacher Robert Hawker (1753-1827 A.D.)

"The love of Christ, which passeth knowledge." -E PHESIANS 3:19 [KJV]   That eminent saint, the Apostle Paul, who had been in the third heaven, and there saw glorious sights, and heard unspeakable words, though he exhausted human language to set forth the surpassing excellency of the love of Christ, comes at last to this point: "It passeth knowledge." Indeed it must pass knowledge. Is it not infinite? What measure, then, can be assigned to the love of Christ? If Christ be God, and as such the equal of the Father, His love is as infinite as Deity. Our love is the love of the creature; the love of God is as great as Deity, as infinite as the self-existent I Am; it must needs therefore pass knowledge. You may wonder sometimes—and it is a wonder that will fill heaven itself with anthems of eternal praise—how such a glorious Jesus as this can ever look down from heaven upon such crawling reptiles, on such worms of earth,—what is more, upon such sinner...

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." - P SALM 46:1 [KJV]   The Christian who has ever known what it is to worship God in spirit and in truth has a God to help him in his direst extremities; for as long as the spirit of prayer abides in his bosom—and that spirit once given is never taken away—he can at times and seasons pour out his heart before God, and find help and strength in him. This, then, is one of his blessed resources, that he has a God to go to, the Lord of Sabaoth, into whose ears his cries may enter. But besides this, all the promises are on his side, which are yea and amen in Christ Jesus. Nor is he without sword or shield, or the whole armour of God. Nor is he without faith and hope, or secret supplies of strength made perfect in weakness. Nor is he without a knowledge of the truth, nor destitute of evidences of an interest in it. Thus, let a Christian be involved in the greatest perplexity, there is still the voi...