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

  Redemption is the ransom of chosen sinners out from under the curse of God's broken law and offended justice by the sacrificial, substitutionary, sin-atoning death of our Lord Jesus. Redemption is the satisfaction of justice by the blood of Christ and the deliverance of God's elect from all possibility of condemnation (Eph esians 1:7; Gal atians 3:13; Col ossians 1:14; I Peter 1:18-20) . The redemption of our souls by Christ's shed blood also includes and guarantees the redemption ( deliverance ) of our souls from the bondage and dominion of sin (Isaiah 53:10-11) ; and the redemption of our bodies from the grave at the resurrection (I Cor inthians 1:30; Eph esians 1:14; 4:30) . ALL WHO WERE REDEEMED BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST MUST AND SHALL BE SAVED BY GOD’S GRACE IN HIM.   -preacher Donnie Bell https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=dleeb

"For we are strangers before T hee and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding." - I Chronicles 29:15 [KJV] If you possess the faith of Abraham, Isaac, and, Jacob, you, like them, confess that you are a stranger; and your confession springs out of a believing heart and a feeling experience. You feel yourself a stranger in this ungodly world; it is not your element, it is not your home. You are in it during God's appointed time, but you wander up and down this world a stranger to its company, a stranger to its maxims, a stranger to its fashions, a stranger to its principles, a stranger to its motives, a stranger to its lusts, its inclinations, and all in which this world moves as in its native element.   Grace has separated you by God's distinguishing power, that though you are in the world, you are not of it. I can tell you plainly, if you are at home in the world; if the things of time and sense be y...