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

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world." - I JOHN 2:15 [KJV] This is a very wide sentence. It stretches forth a hand of vast grasp. It places us, as it were, upon a high mountain, such as the Lord stood upon when tempted of Satan, and it says to us, "Look around you: now there is not one of these things which you must love." It takes us, again, to the streets of a crowded city; it shews us shop windows filled with objects of beauty and ornament; it points us to all the wealth and grandeur of the rich and noble, and everything that the human heart admires and loves. And having thus set before us, as Satan did before our Lord upon the high mountain, the kingdoms of the world, it says, not as he did, "All this will I give you," but, "All this I take from you. None of these things are for you. You must not love one of these glittering baubles; you must not touch one of them, or scarcely look at them, lest, as with Ac...

  There is no other. “There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” All the types and symbols of the Savior teach you this. There was one ark in the flood - but one; and all perished save those who sailed in it. There was one altar in the temple - but one; and no sacrifices were accepted but those offered there - “the altar,” as the Bible says, that “sanctified the gift.” There was one way through the depths of the Red Sea - but one; and only where the water, held back by the hand of God, stood up in crystals walls, was a passage opened for those that were ready to perish. And even so, there is but “One mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” The only Redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ . -Gospel report by preacher Thomas Guthrie (1803 – 1873 A.D.)