Salvation

Appreciative Correspondents, 1855-1890

… For many years, not a week passed, and scarcely a day, without tidings reaching him that his sermons or other printed works had been blessed to the salvation …

Songs of Deliverance

Judges 5:11

… we have a far richer theme for music; we have been delivered from worse enemies, and saved by a greater salvation. Let our gratitude be deeper; let our …

No Compromise

Genesis 24:5-8

… believeth and is baptized shall be saved." Will you believe him? Will you be baptized into his name? If so, salvation is yours; but if not, he himself …

Who Can Tell?

Jonah 3:9

… lay hold on it and be saved. “Who can tell?” But once again, the people of Nineveh lacked another encouragement which you and I have. They had never …

The Doctrines of Grace Do Not Lead to Sin

Romans 6:14

… heavenly alphabet, everything in salvation is of grace, and grace alone; all is of free favour, nothing of merit. “By grace are ye saved through faith; and that …

Natural or Spiritual?

1 Corinthians 2:14

… The eye of the Christian is his faith; but the natural man, being destitute of a living faith in thy living Saviour, is like a man without eyes …

The Cleansing of the Leper

Leviticus 13:12-13

… virtual salvation was accomplished for all the elect when Christ died for them upon the tree. It is the joy of every Christian to stand here saved by …

The True Tabernacle, and Its Glory of Grace and Peace

John 1:14

… He was Himself not only man's Saviour, but his salvation. He gave Himself for us. He was indeed full of grace when He bore our sins in …

Love's Labours

1 Corinthians 13:7

… his faith is great in the salvation of men, and he goes forth to it believing that sinners shall be saved. I delight in the deep, calm faith …

The Sluggard’s Farm

… Or are you a Christian? Are you really saved, and are you negligent in the Lord’s work? Then, indeed, whatever you may be, I cannot help saying …

Commendation for the Steadfast

Revelation 3:8

… As God bears testimony in his word to his own dear Son, believe that testimony; accept the Saviour whom he has given, and find immediate salvation: find it …

The Scales of Judgment

Daniel 5:27

… God also heareth me witness, that my trust is fixed alone in him who is the Saviour of sinners, for salvation and justification. If I be not awfully …

Psalm 42

Psalm 42

… The saddest countenance shall yet be made to shine, if there be a taking of God at his word and an expectation of his salvation. "For yet I …

Psalm 129

Psalm 129

… How shall this carelessness be broken? How convince them that they stand in need of a Saviour as the first and deepest want of their being, and that …

Mysterious Visits

… For our Lord to visit us is something more than for us to have the assurance of our salvation, though that is very delightful, and none of us …

In Him: Like Him

1 John 2:6

… cross to be our salvation we took it also to be our heavenly burden. When we yielded ourselves up to Christ to be saved by him, we in …

Baptism’A Burial

Romans 6:3-4

… We hereby confess that all our salvation lies in the death of Jesus, which death we accept as having been incurred on our account. But this is not …

Later Sermonettes

… Not so in themselves, but quite the reverse; yet they are so in the eyes of their Lord and Saviour. They are His special favourites. They are His …

Redeemed Souls Freed From Fear

… Herein was the tremendous difficulty—How can God be just, and yet the Saviour of sinners? How can He fulfil His threatenings, and yet forgive sin? If that …

The Ceremony of Laying the...

… And for many years to come, yea until thy second advent, thou long-expected Messias, may ministers of a full, free, and finished salvation, occupy its pulpit! And …

Psalm 124

Psalm 124

… There is no doubt as to our deliverer, we cannot ascribe our salvation to any second cause, for it would not have been equal to the emergency; nothing …

Later Literary Works

… Spurgeon, or her son Charles, who has undertaken the onerous task of superintending this department of service for the Saviour. He will be glad to enrol any readers …

Psalm 99

Psalm 99

… Although the enemies of the Church of God are in a tumult, and the whole earth is moved, do you nevertheless with joyful spirit entrust your salvation to …

In the Sunny South (Continued)

… Spurgeon, I have read your sermons for years, and I have learned to trust the Saviour ! I know I cannot live long, but I am very sad as …

Under His Shadow

… Inexpressibly dear to my soul is the deep cool rock-shade of my blessed Lord, as I stand in Him a sinner saved; yet is there more. II …

Psalm 34

Psalm 34

… Faith is the mark of the ransomed, and wherever it is seen, though in the least and meanest of the saints, it ensures eternal salvation. Believer, thou shalt …

A Traveller’s Letters Home

… She is my palace, my throne, my empress, my Rome, my world; yet I have more, my Saviour, my Heaven! Bless you, my own! To-day is the …

Psalm 6

Psalm 6

… A pardoned sinner will hate the sins which cost the Saviour his blood. Grace and sin are quarrelsome neighbours, and one or the other must go to the …

Psalm 15

Psalm 15

… Impertinent curiosity frequently desires to know who and how many shall be saved; if those who thus ask the question, "Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?" would …

Psalm 51

Psalm 51

… Salvation he had known, and had known it as the Lord's own; he had also felt the joy which arises from being saved in the Lord, but …

Psalm 81

Psalm 81

… How typical all this is of the believer's deliverance from legal bondage, when, through faith, the burden of sin glides into the Saviour's sepulchre, and the …

Psalm 7

Psalm 7

… What the probationer disciple said to our Saviour, "Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest," that a good conscience says to the believing soul; I will stand …

Psalm 121

Psalm 121

… To Heaven I lift mine eye, To Heaven, Jehovah's throne, For there my Saviour sits on high, And thence shall strength and aid supply To all He …

Psalm 122

Psalm 122

… Outside the gates all is danger, and one day all will be destruction; but within the gates all is safely, seclusion, serenity, salvation, and glory. The gates are …

Psalm 11

Psalm 11

… Thus, when the chief priests mocked our Saviour (Matthew 27:43), "He trusted in God, let him deliver him now if he will have him." Christ trusted in …

The Well-Beloved's Vineyard

… No, the sin which has been forgiven us should make us love our Saviour exceeding much. The sin which has been prevented in other cases should make us …

The Last Three Months at Mentone;–and Afterwards

… 22 : " Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth ; "— the text which, on January 6, 1850, had been blessed to his conversion. The …

Psalm 54

Psalm 54

… Thou art my Saviour; all around me are my foes and their eager helpers. No shelter is permitted me. Every land rejects me and denies me rest. But …

Open-Air Preaching — A Sketch of Its History

… It may suffice us, however, to go back as far as the origin of our own holy faith, and there we hear the forerunner of the Saviour crying …

Baptismal Regeneration

Mark 16:15-16

… TO SALVATION. “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned.” Faith is the one indispensable requisite for salvation. This faith …