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

“ But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father . Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.” –Galatians 4:4-7 [KJV] Christ Jesus came into the world, NOT TO TRY to redeem His people, but to redeem them as adopted children of God. By His death, He established the one ground upon which His people, sinners saved by grace, can and do approach God as “Abba, Father." -copied  

"Beloved of God, called to be saints." -Romans 1:7 [KJV] The very word "saint" has become, through man's perverseness and wickedness, a word of reproach and contempt. But God will honour it, let men dishonour it as they please. God has put a crown of glory upon it, let men despise it as they may. There is no privilege or blessing that God can confer so great and glorious as to crown you with the crown of saint. He might have given you titles without number; H e might have showered riches upon your head in the greatest profusion; rank, fame, talent, beauty, health, all might have been poured at your feet; but what would all these be compared to making you a saint of God?   But what is it to be a saint? It is to be sanctified by God the Father, set apart for H imself, to shew forth H is praise. It is to be washed in the atoning blood and clothed in the justifying righteousness of the Son, and to be regenerated by the Spirit of God. It is to be introduced into a...

"What think ye of Christ?" -Matthew 22:42 [KJV]   I am ashamed of my thoughts of Him—they are so poor, and so unworthy of Him. He is so great, and so glorious, and so good, and so gracious—that I cannot think of Him as I desire to. Do you inquire what I think of His person? He is the chief among ten thousand, and the altogether lovely One! He unites in Himself Deity and Manhood— "All human beauties—all Divine, In my Beloved meet and shine!" Do you ask what I think of His work? It is perfect! His obedience is spotless! His atonement is complete! His work of redemption is accomplished, "It is Finished!" Do you ask what I think of His love? Ah, here it is that I am most at fault—and no wonder, for His love surpasses knowledge! Its height and depth, its length and its breadth—are immeasurable! His love is free, unchanging, and eternal. It is unparalleled—it is Dying love! He loved me—and gave Himself for me! Greater love has no man than this, tha...

That page is the brightest, in which most of Christ is found. That sermon is the brightest sermon, in which most of Christ is heard. That life is the brightest life, in which most of Christ is seen...without Christ religion is a sunless firmament; the home is no abode of peace; and prosperity is an adverse flood. Without Christ, birth is no boon, life is no gain, and death is a downfall into an unfathomable abyss. Can I know this and not beseech men to make Christ theirs? -preacher Henry Law (1797-1884 A.D.)

  "Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength ." -Isaiah 45:24 [KJV]   The same blessed Spirit who shines as with a ray of light and life into the conscience, to make it feel the guilt of sin, the curse of the law, and its own miserable state as a transgressor, leads it also into this secret, that it has no strength. Have you never felt that you were utterly powerless—that you would believe, but could not; would hope, but could not; would love, but could not; would keep God's word, but could not; would obey His commandments, but were not able? Has a sense of your own miserable impotency and thorough helplessness never pressed you down almost to despair?     You felt sure that there was a faith, a hope, a love, a blessing, and a blessedness in the truth of God; a pardon, a peace, a heavenly joy; an assurance of salvation, a union and communion with the Lord Jesus, which you saw, but could not reach. You felt that if you could be...

   Grace finds us beggars—and leaves us debtors. Nothing in my hand I bring—simply to Your cross I cling! When Christ entered into Jerusalem—the people spread garments in the way. When He enters into our hearts, we pull off our own righteousness, and not only lay it under Christ's feet but even trample upon it ourselves. Grace alone, makes the elect gracious. Grace alone, keeps them gracious. Grace alone, will render them everlastingly glorious in the Heaven of heavens. The church of the elect, which is partly militant on earth, and partly triumphant in Heaven—resembles a city built on both sides of a river. There is but the stream of death between grace and glory! The greatest judgment which God Himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man—is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted free-will. -preacher Augustus Toplady (1740–1778 A.D.)

  "Thus saith the L ORD , Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches; but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth M e ." -Jeremiah 9:23, 24 [KJV] So we are allowed to glory. But in what and in whom? Not in ourselves; that is for ever disannulled. The Lord has purposed to pour contempt upon all human glory, that none should glory in himself, whatever he be or whatever he have. But when a man has a view of the Son of God in His beauty, in His suitability, in His heavenly grace and divine glory, then he can and may glory in the Lord. He can say, "O what a Lord there is above! How glorious is He in His excellency, in His suitability, and in His blessedness; how glorious His wisdom, His righteousness, His sanctification, and His redemption. Let my whole glory be there; let me not take to myself a single atom of it. If I am wise, let me give Him the glory of...