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

" Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." —Matthew 5:3 [KJV] In the day of the Spirit's power "the lofty looks of man are humbled, the haughtiness of man is bowed down, and the L ORD alone is exalted in that day ." —Isaiah 2:11 . Then a man's own righteousness, wherein he trusted, is seen as filthy rags. His strength he boasted of, is found to be perfect weakness; his heart, in which he gloried as good, is found to be deceitful and desperately wicked. Then he becomes in his own eyes a POOR SINNER. He knows his poverty; he feels his wretchedness. Thus, when Jesus alone is exalted in his sight, he becomes little, vile, and mean in his own eyes; then he is poor in spirit, a mere BEGGAR, who must be wholly indebted to free-grace bounty and free-gift mercy.  Though he sees his state to be guilty, wretched, and desperate, yet he is blessed: Why so? Merely because he sees and knows himself to be wretched, poor, miserable...

Jesus, Not Just a Man by D.G. Miles McKee It’s not enough to believe that, as one preacher said, ‘Christ did something or other, which, somehow or other, had some connection or other with salvation.’ What a ridiculous statement.  The poor man had no clue about the Gospel and Christ’s Finished Work.  He and his congregation were going nowhere.  Why?  Because real faith, gospel faith, comes through the unadulterated preaching of the gospel (Romans 10:17). As the gospel is preached, the Holy Spirit generates faith. And genuine faith will cause us to embrace that God became a man. Not only did He become a man, He became our Man.  Faith sees that the God-Man, Christ Jesus, became our representative … the one who acted on our behalf.  Faith now causes us to say, “When He lived, I lived, when He died, I died and when He rose again, I rose again.” When the gospel is proclaimed and applied, faith sees we were in Christ when everything was redemp...