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

  "Way back in old eternity,   In council of the Trinity;  To save a people God agreed,  His saving purpose was decreed.  O praise the Lord His Name adore,  Give Him the glory evermore;  By matchless, free and sovereign grace,  Our God has saved a chosen race.  Into this world Christ Jesus came,  To save His people, praise His Name;  He was the Father’s Sacrifice,  Who fully paid our ransom price.  O what a wondrous mystery,  That Christ would bare iniquity;  The Holy One who is our Head,  Was punished in His people’s stead.  Christ Jesus died but now He lives,  And life to us He freely gives;  We trust the Lord our Righteousness,  Who cleansed us from our sinfulness.  Soon Christ shall come to claim His own,  And then before His great, white throne;  All of the ransomed, holy throng,  Shall join and sing redemption’s song."  Tune: “Sweet Hour of Prayer,” (LM/Double)  Words by preacher Jim Byrd https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=13thstbaptist

"No man has a true desire for the salvation of men's souls who does not first have a desire for God to be honored and glorified above all things. The individual who believes or preaches a gospel in which God is not glorified, one in which His justice is not fully satisfied as His grace is shown, not only doesn't truly desire to see men's souls saved but most likely is not saved himself.  A salvation which does not begin with God, which is not provided for altogether by God, which does not save all whom He purposes to save and which does not keep all He saves...DOES NOT GLORIFY GOD. The chief end of all things in salvation as well as in general is the glory of God." -preacher Gary Shepard https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=allsovgrace

  "And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, He said, Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit : and having said thus, He gave up the ghost." -Luke 23:46 [KJV]   My soul, ponder well these last of the last seven words of thy God and Saviour which He uttered on the cross; for surely they are most sweet and precious, and highly interesting, both on thy Saviour's account and thine own. And first remark, the   manner   in which the Lord Jesus thus breathed out His soul; not like a man spent and exhausted, after hanging so many hours on the cross, faint with loss of blood, and such agonies of soul as never one before endured; but it was with a loud voice, thereby proving what He had before declared— "No man taketh My life from Me; I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again." Precious Jesus, how sweet this assurance to Thy people.       But wherefore cry with a loud voice? A whisper, nay, a thought of the soul only, if with an eye of communic