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

The Gospel of God gloriously declares the Father to have eternally purposed, in Christ, to show mercy to His people in electing grace.  It gloriously declares the Lord Jesus to have procured, by His precious life and death, the redemption and salvation of all that the Father gave Him in that electing grace, and gloriously reveals the Surety and application of all Christ procured, for His people, by the Holy Spirit. - Gospel report by preacher Marvin Stalnaker

The Scripture encourages the believer to trust and hope in the mercy of God at all times! It does not say, 'If any man be holy, prayerful, always faithful, he has an Advocate,' but it says, "If any man SIN, he has an advocate with the Father." It does not say, 'If any man sins, he forfeits his right to Christ's advocacy.' Grace that can be forfeited because of human failure is not grace at all. Mercy that is conditioned on the merit of the creature is not mercy at all. If my title to glory rests upon my works, either BEFORE OR AFTER conversion, it is a total failure. The Scripture declares that at all times, under all circumstances, Jesus Christ is our righteousness, our sanctification, our Advocate, our redemption. So, when I sin, when I consider my past or present and come creeping into my closet with a guilty conscience and an aching heart, I can rejoice in the mercy of my Father, for I have an Advocate, "JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS!" - G...

"In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit." -E PHESIANS 2:22 [KJV] These words will apply both to the whole body of Christ viewed collectively, and to each separate member of that body viewed individually; and what the Church of God is in its completeness in Christ, as it will be in heaven above, and what it is in its visible and militant state on earth now, so is every individual member of that Church in this time state; and it is this solemn truth which makes the words before us to have such a forcible application to every individual believer. As we shall all have to answer for ourselves, "to die," as one said, "alone," and as religion is a personal matter, how careful should it make each individual believer so to walk before God and man that he may have both an inward and outward evidence that his body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [I CORINTHIANS 6:19 ] , and that he is a habitation of God by the Spirit. ...