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

Before the throne of God above, I have a strong, a perfect plea; The Great High Priest, whose name is love, Will ever live and plead for me. My name is graven on His hands; My name is written on His heart; I know that while in heaven He reigns, No tongue can bid me to depart. Because the sinless Saviour died, My sinful soul is counted Free; For God, the Just, is satisfied To look on Him and pardon me. Behold Him there, the worthy Lamb! My perfect, spotless righteousness, The great unchangeable "I AM," The KING of glory and of grace. Tune: “Doxology”

"For it became H im, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." -Hebrews 2:10 [KJV] When, with believing eyes, we can view God the Son as the eternal salvation of all whom the Father gave unto Him; when we can see Him, by the eye of faith, coming down into this lower world, taking our nature into union with His own Divine Person; when, by faith, we can accompany the Man of Sorrows into the gloomy garden of Gethsemane, or behold Him groaning, bleeding, and dying on the cross, an object of ignominy and shame, and believe that in this way, and this alone, salvation could be wrought out, O, what a view it gives us of the demerit and awful nature of sin, that nothing short of the incarnation of God's only begotten Son, nothing short of such a tremendous sacrifice could put away sin, and bring the elect back unto God!   On the one hand, as we take a glance at the...