Salvation is of the LORD

“Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works,

but according to his own purpose and grace,

which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.”

(2 Timothy 1:9)

It is the believer’s blessedness that each glorious person in the Godhead has a glorious hand in his salvation. God the Father saved, chose, sanctified [or set him apart] in Christ before the world was. God the Son took humanity into union to His personal Godhead and thus became incarnate, lived a holy life, suffered, bled, died a solemn death, rose again from the dead, ascended on high, having led captivity captive and is now exalted at the right hand of the Father, ever living to make intercession for him. Thus Christ has meritoriously saved the elect by His life, obedience, death, resurrection, exaltation and intercession. As it is written: He that spared not His own Son but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect?” God? No! For it is Christ that died; yea rather, that is risen again, Who is even at the right hand of God, Who also maketh intercession for us. Thus the Blessed Redeemer was delivered for our offences and raised again for our justification and bless His precious name, He has been the destruction of death, hell and sin. The Gloriously Blessed God-Man Mediator gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. So that, before the world was, the church was saved purposedly by God the Father and in time, meritoriously by the God-Man Mediator Who now lives above to make intercession for them, and in the day of God’s power, they are saved manifestively and vitally by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost.