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

"Salvation is wholly of grace, not only undeserved but undesired by us until God is pleased to awaken us to a sense of our need of it. And then we find everything prepared that our wants require or our wishes conceive; yea, that He has done exceedingly beyond what we could either ask or think. Salvation is wholly of the Lord and bears those signatures of infinite wisdom, power, and goodness which distinguish all His works from the puny imitations of men. It is every way worthy of Himself, a great, a free, a full, a sure salvation. It is great whether we consider the objects (miserable, hell-deserving sinners), the end (the restoration of such alienated creatures to His image and favor, to immortal life and happiness) or the means (the incarnation, humiliation, sufferings and death of His beloved Son). It is free, without exception of persons or cases, without any conditions or qualifications, but such as He, Himself, performs in them and bestows upon them." -preac

"Our fathers trusted in T hee: they trusted, and T hou didst deliver them. They cried unto T hee, and were delivered: they trusted in T hee, and were not confounded." -Psalm 22:4, 5 [KJV] O what a blessed thing it is to have in one's own bosom a secret trust in Jesus—that whilst so many are looking to something in themselves or in one another, resting their eternal salvation on works that really are but the sports of a child, the saint of God is reposing upon the Lord of life and glory! On Him he hangs his hope, and in Him he puts his trust. These the Lord will honour; nor will He ever disappoint their hope or put their confidence to shame. Whoever trusted in the Lord and was confounded? If you are enabled to trust in Him, to believe His faithful word, to discard all creature confidence and to hang the weight of your soul— and O what a weight is that!—upon a faithful, covenant- keeping God, He will never leave, fail, or forsake you. You may find it hard to trust in

CHRIST OUR REDEMPTION by D. G. Miles McKee We are not redeemed because we felt or experienced something. No indeed! We are redeemed because the Lord Christ bought and paid for us with His own blood some 2000 years ago. We are His purchased possession. He owns us. We have been bought with a price [I Corinthians 6:20 ] . In other words, we have been redeemed. Is it any wonder then that the hymn writer can declare; “Redeemed how I love to proclaim it, Redeemed by the blood of the L amb: Redeemed by H is infinite mercy, His child and forever I am.   Redeemed, redeemed, Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb; Redeemed, redeemed, His child and forever I am.” Romans 3:24 informs us that our redemption is “ in Christ Jesus. ” This means that Jesus didn’t come merely to pay the ransom, He came to be the ransom. He came to be our redemption. That´s why, in Ephesians 1:7 we read, “ In whom we have redemption through His blood …” We also see in 1 Corinthians 1:30, “Christ is m