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

"His soul was not left in hell, neither His flesh did see corruption."   -Acts 2:31 [KJV]  Two sweet, but distinct thoughts, arise out of this scripture: one, concerns the soul of Christ; the other, respects His body; and both are most blessed to the believer in the review. My soul! Thou hast attended to the parched state of thy Redeemer, as represented on the cross, and made it the subject of thy morning meditation; do thou now behold what this scripture states, under all His humiliating circumstances, that neither hell nor the grave can have dominion over Him. His soul shall not be long in a way of separation from the body, in the invisible state; for very shortly it shall arise from hades, the hell here mentioned. And His body is too holy, harmless, and undefiled, to admit of putrefaction; yea, it must be presented before the Lord for a sweet-smelling savour.   Precious thought to the believer! Jesus needed not to lie long under the dominion of death: He had fully paid the

"But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."   -I Corinthians 15:20-22 [KJV] Christ risen is the firstfruits of that mighty crop of buried dead whose remains still sleep in the silent dust, and who will be joined by successive ranks of those who die in Him, till all are together wakened up in the resurrection morn. The figure is that of the sheaf of the firstfruits which was waved before the Lord before the harvest was allowed to be reaped (Leviticus 23:10, 11) . This offering of the wave sheaf was the consecration and dedication of the whole crop in the field to the Lord, as well as the manifest pledge that the harvest was fully ripe for the reaper's sickle.   The firstfruits represented the whole of the crop, as Christ is the representative of His saints; the offering of them sanctified

Jesus: The Wonderful One by D.G Miles McKee His name shall be called ‘Wonderful’ (Isaiah 9:6). “Wonderful” comes from the root word “wonder.” It can also be translated as ‘amazing,’ ‘surprising,’ ‘astonishing’ or ‘awe-inspiring.’  Jesus is all these things!  Does Jesus bring wonder to our lives?  I hope so!  May we always find wonderfully surprising and astonishing things in Him.   Being that His name is Wonderful it is not strange to see there are so many wonderful things associated with Him.  Salvation, for example, belongs to Him and He gives it to lost people (Luke 19:10). He doesn’t charge them, He freely gives. That’s wonderful.  Not only so, but look at those to whom He gives this Salvation … He gives it to the ungodly (Romans 4:5). That again is wonderful!   There has never been anyone as wonderful as Jesus. But, think about it, He was either wonderful or arrogant.   He came and pointed out our sins but acknowledged no sin of His own. That is either arrogant or wonderful? He