Salvation

Effectual Calling

Luke 19:5

… inclined now to seek the Saviour? are you breathing a prayer now? are you saying, “Now or never! I must be saved now?” If you are, then I …

Struggles of Conscience

Job 13:23

… But some of it was unscriptural, because it took for its standard what the Christian felt and not what the Saviour said; the inference from a believer’s …

'Love and I' A Mystery

John 17:26

… That little knowledge which you received by grace when you found ‘life in a look at the Crucified One’ has saved you; but in these after years you …

Psalm 69

Psalm 69

… What, thy wife dearer to thee than thy Saviour! and thy land and oxen preferred to thy soul's salvation. O beware, that thy comforts prove not snares …

The Spiced Wine of My Pomegranate

… Therefore be always at His door, and the wants which you bemoan shall be remembrances to turn your heart unto your Saviour. Thirst makes the heart pant for …

The Treasure of Grace

Ephesians 1:7

… I walk at large, My Saviour’s blood my full discharge; At his dear feet my soul I lay, A sinner saved, and homage pay.” Having thus spoken …

A Desperate Case—How to Meet It

Matthew 17:19-21

… If God gives you the power to believe that any soul will be saved, it will be saved; there is no doubt about that. Still, our Saviour added …

Blessing on the Printed Sermons

… been graciously pleased to bless them to the salvation of my soul. I had almost begun to think my Saviour had forgotten me; I knew I had long …

Lions Lacking—But the Children Satisfied

Psalm 34:10

… Well, then, the man who is under a conviction of sin, and feels his need of a Saviour—what is he doing? What is his occupation, now that …

Christ in the Covenant

Isaiah 49:8

… WE all believe that our Saviour has very much to do with the covenant of eternal salvation. We have been accustomed to regard him as the Mediator of …

Faith and Repentance Inseparable

Mark 1:15

… you, and lament that you need to be saved, and mourn because this need of yours has put the Saviour to open shame, to frightful sufferings, and to …

The Evidence of Our Lord's Wounds

John 20:27

… Translated according to many, and I think translated correctly, our Saviour said, "Reach hither thy finger, and put it into the print of the nails; and become not …

The Joy of Harvest

… with us ever since it commenced—was when we found the Saviour , and so obtained salvation. You recollect for yourselves, brethren and sisters, the time of the ploughing …

Things That Accompany Salvation

Hebrews 6:9

… the great army of Salvation, it ordained the time when the sinner should be brought to Christ, the manner how he should be saved, the means that should …

A Lecture for Little-Faith

2 Thessalonians 1:3

… If any of you should in ignorance ask the question why it was that Paul should take so deep an interest in the salvation of these saints, and …

Election no Discouragement to Seeking Souls

Exodus 33:19

… my salvation depends entirely upon the will of God: is there a chance for me? We take down a list of those whom he has saved, and we …

The Shame and Spitting

Isaiah 50:6

… Or if we do not say this when we reject the Saviour we tell Him that we do not want Him, for we do not need a Saviour …

Real Contact With Jesus

… Yet, wherever one was blessed, our Saviour took note of it; it touched a chord in His soul. He never could be unaware when virtue had gone out …

Christ’s Prayer for His People

John 17:15

… of the salvation of their brethren. You would not, surely, wish to go out of the world if there were a soul to be saved by you. Methinks …

Psalm 24

Psalm 24

… He is in heaven as a Saviour. When he came from heaven it was in the character of a Saviour; when on earth he obtained eternal salvation; in …

The Day of Atonement

Leviticus 16:34

… The Jews had many striking ceremonies which marvellously set forth the death of Jesus Christ as the great expiation of our guilt and the salvation of our souls …

Psalm 22

Psalm 22

… Jew and Gentile saved by sovereign grace should be eager in the blessed work of magnifying the God of our salvation. All saints should unite in the song …

Salvation to the Uttermost

Hebrews 7:25

… I think I should like to be saved. I do not feel that I very much require salvation; I have always been a very honest, upright, moral man …

Spring in the Heart

… We think it is first seen in sincerely earnest desires after salvation . The man is not saved, in his own apprehension, but he longs to be. That which …

Daily Blessings for God's People

Psalm 68:19-20

… It is true I am sick, but I am saved. It is true I am obscure and unknown, but I am saved; and the salvation of God sweetens …

The Kingly Priesthood of the Saints

Revelation 5:10

… their own might; but they ascribe their salvation, from beginning to end, to God. Ask them how they were saved, and they reply, “The Lamb hath made us …

Love

1 John 4:19

… They all sing, “Salvation to our God and to the Lamb.” II. Love, then, has for its parent the love of God shed abroad in our hearts. But …

The Prodigal's Return

Luke 15:20

… salvation is a fallacy, and you are not addressed in the words of the text. It is the man who knows himself lost, but desires to be saved …

Justification by Faith—Illustrated by Abram’s Righteousness

Genesis 15:6

… who, having lived in unrighteousness, yet believeth on Jesus and is saved. If there be salvation for the dying thief, and others like him, it cannot be of …

Comfort for the Desponding

Job 29:2

… There are some of us, dearly beloved, who have not as much zeal for the glory of God and the salvation of men as we used to have …

Coming Judgment of the Secrets of Men

Romans 2:16

… If the Saviour condemns, and such a Saviour, who can plead for us? The owner of the vineyard was about to cut down the barren tree, when the …

The Shortest of the Seven Cries

John 19:28

… Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. Sister, thirst for the salvation of your class, thirst for the redemption of your family, thirst for the …

Our Miseries, Messengers of Mercy

Hosea 6:1-2

… I do believe; I will believe; I trust my Saviour with my soul.” This done, you are saved. Once more, may I not plead with you to return …

A Mystery! Saints Sorrowing and Jesus Glad!

John 11:14-15

… I walk at large, The Saviour’s blood’s my full discharge; At His dear feet my soul I lay, A sinner saved, and homage pay.” If this …

The Withered Fig Tree

Matthew 21:17-20

… Words’the words of Jesus’had been wasted; and even tears’tears of the Saviour’had been spilt in vain; it was time that the sign should be …

The Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem

… His ways are ways of pleasantness, and all his paths are peace. “Joy to the world, the Saviour comes, The Saviour promised long; Let every heart prepare a …

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

Luke 15:4-7

… up my jewels.’ Oh the glorious grace of our unfailing Saviour, who consecrates himself to our salvation, and concentrates upon that object all that he has and is …

Alive or Dead—Which?

1 John 5:12

… his salvation. “For ever here my rest shall be, Close to thy wounded side; This all my trust and all my plea, For me the Saviour died.” I …

On Raising Questions

… To me it seems very strange that men should hunt up difficulties as to their own salvation. If I were doomed to die, and I had a hint …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage

… Dear purchase of a Saviour’s blood, you are to me a Saviour’s gift, and my heart is full to overflowing with the thought of such continued …