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

"For such an High Priest became us, Who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens." -Hebrews 7:26 [KJV]   What a sweet thought! surely, as a poor sinner, I need an High Priest to act for me. I cannot, I dare not, approach in myself, and with my poor polluted offerings, without one. But He that intercedes for me must be Himself holy, free from sin; His sacrifice holy, His obedience holy, and in all points suited to His office and my necessities.    Cherish, then, the thought, my soul—He that is thine High Priest is all this, and infinitely more. So holy in Himself, that not the shadow of sin was in Him. So harmless, that in His mouth was found no guile. So undefiled, that though He took all the sins of His people upon Him, yet in Himself He was free from all sin. So separate from sinners, that though He took the nature of man, yet wholly underived from man. And so much higher than the heavens, that His own personal holiness infi...

  Whom Exactly 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…." -I Timothy 1:12-13 [KJV]     Paul’s statement in 1Timothy 1:12-13 provides a very important reference to the Deity of Christ. The apostle, speaking of his life as a Pharisee, calls himself a blasphemer. So, when was Paul ever a blasphemer?  In case you are not aware, by definition, blasphemy is the act of insulting or attacking God or the act of claiming the attributes of deity.  We can discount the second part of the definition in Paul’s case for we have no record whatsoever of him ever claiming to possess the attributes of Deity within himself. Of all the charges leveled against the apostle this is not one of them!   So, according to Paul, he was an insulter and attacker of God.  He was a blasphemer. Bu...