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

"... One mediator between God and man, the man CHRIST JESUS." -I Timothy 2:5 [KJV] O my fellow sinners, I heartily congratulate your soul and my own for this blessed truth! Lord help us to live upon it in our consciences from day to day. For it is not a speculative, but an experimental truth. It enters into the very essence of our faith, is the very life of our hope—lies at the foundation of our peace—and is the very source of every blessing and comfort. If we are not continually looking to this ONE mediator JESUS, we lose the peace of faith, the comfort of hope, the fellowship of love, and get into perplexity of mind. Then, we do not draw nigh to God with confidence, stand before Him with boldness, nor cheerfully walk with Him in love and holiness.  Consider, (1st.) A mediator stands as a middle person, interposing between two parties at variance, to make peace and reconciliation. This, Christ hath perfectly done. He hath for ever made peace by the blood of His

" Justification is an act of God’s free grace, whereby He clears His people from sin, discharges them from condemnation, and reckons and accounts them righteous, for the sake of Christ’s righteousness which He has accepted of and imputes unto them." -preacher John Gill