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

  "For H e is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us." -Ephesians 2:14 [KJV] "He is our peace." This necessarily springs from being reconciled and brought nigh by the blood of Christ. Sin has not only made us enemies to God, but made God an enemy to us. What peace, then, can there be between us whilst thus mutual enemies? Peace is between friends, not between foes. During this state of hostility and warfare, as there is no real, so there can be no felt or enjoyed peace. But the removal of the cause of the war brings about peace, first really and then experimentally. Christ has made peace through the blood of H is cross (Col ossians 1:20) . There is now no enmity on the part of God, for it was a law enmity. God always loved H is people in Christ; and as H e is unchanging and unchangeable, H e never could or did hate them. But as a judge is an enemy to a criminal, even were that criminal his own son, so, as

  “ Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and y e men of Israel; I will help y e , s aith the L ORD , and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. " -Isaiah 41:14 [KJV] This text gives us grace in two small words. What are the 2 words? They are, “Fear Not.” In the Middle East there is an ancient fable that Pestilence met a caravan on the way to Baghdad. “Why must you travel to Baghdad?” asked the Caravan Master. “To take five thousand lives,” he answered.  On the way back Pestilence again met the caravan. “You deceived me,” said the Caravan master. “You took 50,000 lives.” “No,’ insisted Pestilence. ‘I took 5,000 lives. Fear killed the rest.” That is a fable. But, here’s a fact … fear kills. At one time or another, most of us have been gripped with fear. It’s no wonder then that these two words, ‘Fear Not’ are found frequently throughout the scriptures.  In fact, the phrases, "Fear not" or "Be not afraid", occur more than 100 times in the King James Bible