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

"I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one." -John 17:23 [KJV]   Think, my soul, to what a transcendant honour, to what a state of unspeakable happiness, the truly regenerated believer in Jesus is begotten. Who shall declare it; what heart shall fully conceive it? Mark, my soul, how graciously thy Redeemer hath pointed it out, in those sweet words. Observe the foundation of the whole, in that glorious mystery of union between the Father and the Son.  This is at the bottom of all our mercies, and becomes the source and spring of every other. " Thou in Me ," saith Jesus; not only as One in the nature and essence of the Godhead, in a sameness of nature, of design, of will, of perfections, and in all the attributes which constitute the distinguishing properties of Jehovah; but peculiarly as Mediator, the head of the church and people, in communicating all the fulness of the Godhead to dwell bodily in Jesus, as the Glory-man, the God-man, the Anoin...

Whom Did Paul Blaspheme? by D.G. Miles McKee   “And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.”  -1 Timothy 1:12-13     Paul’s statement in 1 Timothy 1:12-13 provides another very important reference to the Deity of Christ. The apostle, speaking of his life as a Pharisee before his conversion, says, “Who was before a blasphemer.”   Paul, a blasphemer? When was Paul ever a blasphemer?   According to the dictionary definition, blasphemy is the act of insulting or attacking God or the act of claiming the attributes of deity. So, when did Paul do that?   We can discount the second part of the definition in Paul’s case for we have no record of him ever claiming to possess the attributes of Deity in himself.  Of all the charges leveled against the apostle, thi...