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

“ But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father . Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.” –Galatians 4:4-7 [KJV] Christ Jesus came into the world, NOT TO TRY to redeem His people, but to redeem them as adopted children of God. By His death, He established the one ground upon which His people, sinners saved by grace, can and do approach God as “Abba, Father." -copied  

"Beloved of God, called to be saints." -Romans 1:7 [KJV] The very word "saint" has become, through man's perverseness and wickedness, a word of reproach and contempt. But God will honour it, let men dishonour it as they please. God has put a crown of glory upon it, let men despise it as they may. There is no privilege or blessing that God can confer so great and glorious as to crown you with the crown of saint. He might have given you titles without number; H e might have showered riches upon your head in the greatest profusion; rank, fame, talent, beauty, health, all might have been poured at your feet; but what would all these be compared to making you a saint of God?   But what is it to be a saint? It is to be sanctified by God the Father, set apart for H imself, to shew forth H is praise. It is to be washed in the atoning blood and clothed in the justifying righteousness of the Son, and to be regenerated by the Spirit of God. It is to be introduced into a...