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

“For His merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.” -Psalm 117:2 [KJV] Sinners are unable to save themselves so if anyone is to be delivered from the curse of the law, from sin and from Satan, GOD MUST DO IT . You will concur with that, will you not? Since it is clear from Scripture and from experience that some are indeed saved, then God must have saved them. You are still in agreement with me, aren’t you? And, it being true that sinners are unable to save themselves and yet some are indeed saved and God must have saved them, then is it not evident that the Lord made a distinction between those who are saved and those who are not? That distinction is called divine election.  "For God saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy" [Romans 9:15] . -preacher Jim Byrd Thirteenth Street Baptist church of Ashland, Kentucky USA https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=13thstbaptist

"God is the L ORD , which hath shewed us light." -P SALM 118:27 a [KJV] If God the LORD hath shewed us light, He hath shewed us light both with respect to Himself and with respect to ourselves. He hath shewed us with respect to Himself who He is; He hath stamped something of Himself upon our consciences; He hath discovered something of His glorious character to our souls; and brought us, under the operation of the Holy Spirit, into His presence, there to receive communications of life out of Christ's inexhaustible fulness. Thus in this light we see and feel that we have to do with a heartsearching God; in this light we see and feel that we have to do with a sin-hating God; with a God who will not be mocked nor trifled with. In this light we see and feel that every secret of our heart, every working of our mind is open before Him; and in this light, so far as He is pleased to manifest it, we see what we are in His holy and pure eyes — a mass of sin, filth, and cor