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

3rd track off 'The Call's' 5th album "Into The Woods" from 1987 A.D.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh5uUfn_OvQ and, https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=3LXBC0ePlmc&list=PLLDkpVYSmCD8jKvnqCJrHURoDGye1qvcw

"...of whom I am chief."  -I Timothy 1:15 [KJV]   What a mighty change does grace make! The apostle was once, in his own eyes, the chief of saints. If but two went to heaven, he had no doubt but he should be one. Now, he is really an eminent saint in Christ: he confesses himself the chief of sinners. Why so? Did he love sin, lie down and wallow in sin, and glory in sin? No, far from it: he was now saved from all his sins. Hence he sees the exceeding preciousness of Christ, his Saviour; the exceeding sinfulness of sin, which dwelt in him; and the infinite holiness, spirituality, and perfection of the law of God . Therefore, he makes this public declaration: not, I have been, but, I now am the chief of sinners.    He, as it were, stands forth and challenges the whole race of sinners, and says, I will give place to no one: of all of you, I will be the first rate, and stand foremost in the rank. But is not this glorying in sin, which was his shame? Self-ri...

"And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled." -Acts 24:25 [KJV] And wherefore did Felix tremble? Did Paul, who was then preaching to him, charge him with any particular sins? It doth not appear that he did. Neither is it probable that a poor prisoner would have been permitted so to have done. But the truth is, God's holy word, by Paul's preaching, and the man's own guilty conscience, which Felix himself applied, so met together, that the conscious sinner could not refrain. The very thought of a future judgment, and a day of account, crossing the mind of a guilty conscience, will be enough to damp the mirth of the stoner in the midst of his jollity. Every man, more or less, must have thoughts now and then of an hereafter. Man, by nature, is a creature compelled to look forward. He is forever proposing to himself prospects that are to arise.    Hence, men of the world are sending out into the highways and lane...

"Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered." - Hebrews 5:8 [KJV] Our gracious Lord had to learn obedience to the will of God by a personal experience of suffering, and especially by an implicit submission to His heavenly Father's will. And what was this will? That He should take upon Himself the huge debt which His bride had incurred by original and actual transgression; that He should offer Himself as a ransom price to discharge and put it away; that He should bear our sins in His own body on the tree, with everything which was involved in being made a curse for us; that He should by death overcome Satan, who had the power of death, and deliver them who all their life, through fear of death, were subject to bondage; and that, whatever sorrows and sufferings should lie in His path, He should bear them all, and learn, in and by them, implicit submission to the will of God.    This was the will of God, for He was determined...