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

" But Jesus stooped down, and with His finger wrote on the ground, as though He heard them not." -John 8:6 [KJV]  Note: Friends, also see the prophetic fulfillment of Christ's saying found in Jeremiah 17:13: as it is written, "O L ORD , the hope of Israel, all that forsake Thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters." Every, the most minute transaction of the life of Christ, should be precious to the faith of our hearts. For in all that He did in life, and by all that He suffered in death, He manifested Himself to be the Saviour of lost sinners. The love of His heart knows no bounds to such. He willingly came to seek, and to save them. It is His joy to find, and His glory to save the lost. O were it not so, the hand that writes must tremble, that holds the pen, drop it with terror, while his heart would be filled with distress, and his soul sink int...

"Christ is to be answerable for ALL those that are given to Him, at THE LAST DAY, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ’s charge and care of these that are given to Him extends even to the very day of their resurrection that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, “ I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day ” (John 6:39). -Gospel report by preacher Thomas Brooks (1608-1680 A.D.)