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

"...all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God . FOR HE HATH MADE HIM TO BE SIN FOR US, WHO KNEW NO SIN; THAT WE MIGHT BE MADE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM." -II Corinthians 5:18-21 [KJV]

"Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept." -I Corinthians 15:20 [KJV]   One view more, my soul, while thou art meditating upon this delightful subject of thy Redeemer's triumph over death and the grave, and now look at Jesus's resurrection as a sure pledge and confirmation of thine own. Did Jesus's holy body arise? Then so shall thine, sinful and polluted as it now is, but then made a glorified body by virtue of thy union with Him. For so saith the Holy Ghost, by His servant the apostle "He shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body. For if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies, by His Spirit that dwelleth in you" [Philippians 3:21 Romans 8:11] .     Pause then, my soul, and rejoice in this glorious and transporting doctrine. As sure as Jesus arose, so sur