Salvation

There never was a man who could walk into salvation erect. We must go to Christ on bended knees; for, though he is a door big enough for the greatest sinner to come in, he is a door so low that men must stoop if they would be saved.

Nothing in Scripture teaches us that there is any salvation save the one salvation of Jesus Christ; nothing tells us of any other power super-excellent and surpassing the power of the Holy Spirit.

Every man who comes to Christ will find that Christ is able to save him to the uttermost extent of his sin, unto the uttermost length of his trials, the uttermost depth of his sorrows, unto the uttermost duration of his existence.

What we have to obtain, as absolutely necessary to salvation, is a special calling, made in us, not to our ears, but to our hearts; not to our mere fleshly understanding, but to the inner man, by the power of the Spirit.

Salvation is a doctrine peculiar to revelation. Revelation affords a complete history of it; nowhere else can we find any trace thereof. God has written many books, but only one book has had for its aim the teaching of the ways of mercy.

The Son could not save without the Father any more than the Father without the Son; and, if the Son redeems, the Holy Ghost regenerates. It is he who makes us new creatures in Christ, begets us again unto a lively hope, purifies our soul, sanctifies our spirit, and at last presents us spotless and faultless before the throne “accepted in the Beloved.” When thou say est, “Saviour,” remember there is a Trinity in that word — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, this Saviour being three persons under one name.

I find salvation written nowhere till, in the volume of my Father’s grace, I see his blessed love unfolded towards the great human family, teaching them that they are lost, but that he can save them, and that in saving them he can be “just, and yet the justifier of the ungodly.”

There is no way of salvation apart from the satisfaction of Divine justice. Either the sinner must die, or else some one must die for him. God has a debt against us, and he never remits that debt; he will have it paid. Christ pays it, and then the sinner goes free.

A sentence of condemnation is passed on all, that the free grace of God might come upon many to salvation. “Look! Look! Look!” This is the simple method of salvation. “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth.”

Some divines want a week to tell you what you are to do to be saved; but God the Holy Ghost only wants four letters to do it. “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth.”

However far you may have gone — if you have gone to the very Arctic regions of vice, where the sun of mercy seems to scatter but a few oblique rays — there can the light of salvation reach you.

The great platform of salvation was, so to speak, the balcony on which God stepped to show himself to man — the balcony of salvation. Here it is he manifests himself by saving men’s souls.

How many have postponed the day of salvation until the day of damnation has come, before they have repented. Take heed of procrastination; delays are dangerous, and some delays are damnable!

If you are willing to be saved, God has made you willing, and therein he has given you the very germ of salvation; for your willingness to be saved in God’s way is the very essence of being saved.

If I had a stone to lift, to work my own salvation, without God’s help to do that, I must be lost, though it were ever so little. There is nought that we can do without the power of God.

Salvation is not a selfish thing. God does not give it for us to keep to ourselves, but that we may thereby be made the means of blessing others; and the great day shall declare that there is not a man on the surface of the earth but has received a blessing in some way or other through God’s gift of the gospel

The way of salvation is no great mystery, it is very plain; it is, “Believe and live.”

If the righteous and good are not saved, if they reject the gospel, there are others who are to be called, others who shall be rescued; for Christ will not lose the merits of his agonies, or the purchase of his blood.

If one sinner is not saved, another shall be. The Jew and the Greek shall never depopulate heaven. The choirs of glory shall not lose a single songster by all the opposition of Jews and Greeks; for God hath said it; some shall be called; some shall be saved; some shall be rescued.

The tempest of law compels men to put back to the harbour of free grace, and saves them from a moat terrible destruction, which would otherwise overwhelm them. The law never came to save men. It came to make the evidence complete that salvation by works is impossible, and thus to drive the elect of God to rely wholly on the finished salvation of the gospel

People who have vague and mysterious ideas of salvation when the sunshine comes into their hearts will see, as plain as a pike-staff, as clear as the noonday sun, bright as the heavens, those blessed words, “Believe and Live.”

The call which saves is like that of Jesus when he said, “Mary,” and she said unto him, “Rabboni.”

Behold, O trembling penitent, the means of thy deliverance. Turn thy tearful eye to yonder Mount of Calvary! See the victim of justice — the sacrifice of atonement for thy transgression. View the Saviour with streams of blood purchasing thy soul, and with intensest agonies enduring thy punishment. He died for thee, if now thou dost confess thy guilt. Oh, come, condemned one, self-condemned, and turn thine eye this way, for one look will save.

How strangely some think of God! They say, “I wish to be saved, but am afraid God will not save me.” It is treason to the Almighty to talk thus, for if you wished to be saved God gave you that wish; and if he gave you the wish he will not let it die, — for if thou desirest God, he desires thee.

Thou art on the door-step of Paradise, sitting at the gate of mercy, and salvation is come into thy house; though as yet it has not grasped you by the hand, and thou hast not yet greeted it as a welcome guest, it is on the door-step, it is on the threshold, about to enter thy habitation, and to abide there for ever. If you weep for want of Jesus, anxious to be saved by him, and him alone, you are” not far from the kingdom of heaven. 19

Salvation for enemies must be by an ambassador — by an atonement — yea, by Christ.