NONE ELSE BUT CHRIST JESUS ALONE
"Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else"
-Jesus Christ, the LORD our righteousness (see Isaiah 45:21-24)
Salvation
is wholly of grace, not only undeserved but undesired by us until God
is pleased to awaken us to a sense of our need of it. And then we find
everything prepared that our wants require or our wishes conceive; yea,
that He has done exceedingly beyond what we could either ask or think.
Salvation is wholly of the Lord and bears those signatures of infinite
wisdom, power, and goodness which distinguish all His works from the
puny imitations of men. It is every way worthy of Himself, a great, a
free, a full, a sure salvation. It is great whether we consider the
objects (miserable, hell-deserving sinners), the end (the restoration of such alienated creatures to His image and favor, to immortal life and happiness) or the means (the incarnation, humiliation, sufferings and death of His beloved Son).
It is free, without exception of persons or cases, without any
conditions or qualifications, but such as He, Himself, performs in them
and bestows upon them.
-preacher John Newton (author of the hymn, Amazing Grace)
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