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

"But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour."  -Hebrews 2:9 [KJV] Mark, my soul, the very sweet and peculiar manner in which God the Holy Ghost here speaks of Jesus. He was "made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death." Yes! a body, such as ours, was given Him, for the express purpose of suffering. Our nature, by reason of sin, required a sacrifice for sin. It behoved Him, therefore, to be in all things like unto His brethren. But when He had made His soul an offering for sin, He for ever sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. To none of the angels was it ever said, "Sit Thou on My right hand until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool." Now ponder these blessed things, and then say, whether thou hast so seen Jesus? If so, thou hast seen thy nature, in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, not only exalted above all principality and power, and might ...

"And what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places." - Ephesians 1:19-20 [KJV] It is no great mystery that the Son of God should be exalted to the throne of power. It is but a step from the bosom of the Father to His right hand. But that one in our nature should be exalted to that seat of pre-eminence and power; that the Mediator between God and man should be the man Christ Jesus; that the hands which once were nailed to the cross should now hold the sceptre, and that the feet which once walked on Lake Gennesaret, which were weary and dust-soiled at Jacob's well, which were washed with a sinful woman's tears and kissed in penitential grief and love with polluted lips—that these very feet should now have all things put under them both in heaven and earth,  there  is the mystery.   An...