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

Jesus the Go-Between by D.G. Miles McKee   1Timothy 2:5. ¨For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.¨ Between the all-holy God and sin-filled man there stands the awesome sinless person of the Lord Jesus Christ. The genius of the gospel is that Christ is Himself both God and man and thus is a fitting and qualified mediator between us and the Almighty. In Christ, man encounters the all-holy God and in Christ, God encounters the perfect man. Jesus, therefore, because He is both God and man, is the only one exclusively qualified to be our mediator. Indeed, He must be both God and man to qualify as an effective representative of both parties. If He was merely man, He could not represent God: If God only, He could not represent man. So, what is a mediator? In disputes, people often call upon the services of a mediator to help settle arguments where opposing groups feel hard done by. There are offences on both sides and the mediator care...

" O Lord! Thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; Thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, and every one mocketh me." -Jeremiah 20:7 [KJV] A poor deluded perfectionist lately made a great noise in London: he blasphemously pretended to be as holy as God Himself, to have revelations from Him, and peremptorily fixed upon a day when the world was to be destroyed. He deceived many, and alarmed more. But time proved how artfully he had been deceived himself; and now, what is most awful, he has cast off all sense of religion, ridicules it, charges all his delusion upon God, and quotes these very words of Jeremiah, to prove that God had deceived him. One would not mention this by way of reflection, or triumph over this unhappy man; but, as a caution against this mad, wildfire notion of sinless perfection, which so spreads itself among a certain description of professors.  But did God really deceive Jeremiah? Can we suppose that he charge...