Salvation

Opening Services

… Make glorious, oh our Savior King, The place where thus Your chosen sing. More grand the temple and the strain More sweet, when we Your Heaven shall gain …

Both Sides of the Shield

Exodus 17:8

… Let us comfort ourselves with our Savior's words, "What you know not now, you shall know hereafter." Some day the way will be made plain before us …

The Children and Their Hosannas

Matthew 21:15

… He was true all his life to it—no, he became a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ after being saved from his drunkenness! Oh, little children, you …

Thanksgiving And Prayer

Psalm 65:11

… you are not saved." But oh, what a joy, if this very day you should turn unto God and live! Remember, the way of salvation was freely proclaimed …

Vanity Deprecated

Psalm 119:37

… My soul faints for Your salvation: but I hope in Your word. The Psalmist was so full of longing, hungering, thirsting, for God's salvation that he had …

The Divine Discipline

Deuteronomy 32:11

… Some things about which they will not even consult their kindest and wisest human friends will be matters of consultation between them and their Savior. Oh, what mistakes …

The Broken Fence

Proverbs 24:30-32

… righteous scarcely are saved," who strive to serve their Lord—where will those appear who sleep on in defiance of the calls of God? Salvation is wholly and …

David's Prayer in the Cave

… Perhaps you have been trying to be saved by your good works. They are altogether worthless when you heap them together. Possibly you expect to be saved by …

A Holy and Homely Resolve

Psalm 101:2

… As to my outward actions, what do they signify? We are not saved by works, you know, it is all of Grace." Ah, but that is not the …

Marrow and Fatness

2 Samuel 7:18-22

… this subject because there are many among us who have lately found the Savior and it is well to let them see the happiness which belongs to them …

The Glory, Unity and Triumph of the Church

John 17:22-3

… the salvation of men. We would make all men see what is the fellowship of this mystery, for we would have all men to be saved and come …

A Question for Communicants

Exodus 12:26

… Here you say, "My Master, let me eat with You." If any of you have lost your first love and have grown spiritually cold, the Savior stands at …

A Preacher from the Dead

Luke 16:31

… And since without the agency of the Spirit, these testimonies are insufficient for salvation, it follows that no further declaration would avail. Salvation is ascribed wholly to God …

Sermons From Saintly Deathbeds No. 783

Genesis 49:33

… All Believers fall asleep in Jesus and in Him they are all saved. The precious blood has washed them. The hands of Christ keep them. The earnest of …

Reasons for Turning to the Lord

Hosea 6:1

… He makes and set the man upon his feet again, saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation. "Though He causes grief, yet will He have compassion according …

A Life-Long Occupation

Hebrews 13:15

… Behold your Savior in His passion, offered without the gate! Gaze upon His five bleeding wounds, His sacred head so wounded, His face so full of anguish, His …

Supposing Him to Have Been in the Company

Luke 2:44

… No human thought could ever have invented our Savior! We put it to all those who doubt the Inspiration of the four Evangelists—would they kindly write us …

The Question of Fear and the Answer of Faith

Job 23:6

… He is seeking salvation, but, when he is bidden to come before his God and find mercy, he is compelled by his intense anxiety to make the trembling …

The Wandering Bird

Proverbs 27:8

… feeling, rather as a Christian professor, or a minister, than as a sinner saved by Grace—but I find that I have to come back to that same …

'Feed My Sheep'

John 21:16

… Why did the Savior examine Peter rather than any other? Because Peter was in peculiar need of a re-ordination. Had he not received it from his Lord …

Life More Abundant

John 10:10

… If, then, you are, this day, seeking salvation, you are instructed as to the only source of it! Spiritual life is not the result of working—how can …

The Faculty of Impromptu Speech

… not found a tongue. “By grace are ye saved,” had been spoken of as indicating the source of salvation; who could not follow by describing the next clause …

God's Pupil, God's Preacher—an Autobiography

Psalm 71:17

… He can remove from you the depraving influence of sin and He can give you to understand those things which are essential to your peace and eternal salvation …

The Sinner'S Advocate

1 John 2:1

… Sinner is my name, sinner my nature, but thanks be to Him who came to save sinners, I am a sinner saved by Free Grace. II. I now …

Praise for Jesus

Genesis 49:8

… I have waited for Your salvation, O LORD. What a happy breathing space is this! When you and I, also, are near our journey's end, may we …

The Philosophy and Propriety of Abundant Praise

Psalm 145:7

… In this house, however, we worship Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—the God and Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ—and none other …

Idols Found Wanting, But Jehovah Found Faithful

Isaiah 46:1-4

… For my expectation is from Him." None but Jesus is the ground of salvation—none but the Eternal God is the disposer of Providence. Trust wholly in Him …

Lessons From the Malta Fire

Acts 28:2

… Above all, contrast yourselves with your dear Lord and Savior. He was a veritable flame of fire, but what are you? Alas! Alas, what am I? Cold, cold …

Christ and His Hearers

Luke 15:1

… I do not find our Savior ever trying to prove that there is a God. I do not find Him standing up and continually apologizing! His mode of …

A Bottle in the Smoke

Psalm 119:83

… Jesus Christ and be baptized, and thou shalt be saved.” If thou art no sinner, I have no salvation for thee; if thou art a Pharisee, and knowest …

Christ the Maker of All Things New

… If a man is merely enlightened in understanding, what is that? It is good, but it is not salvation! A new brain is not all that is needed …

The Sheep Before The Shearers

Isaiah 53:7

… He had reckoned on the uttermost expenditure and endured the Cross, despising the shame— "This was compassion like a God, That when the Savior knew The price of …

The Claims of God

Psalm 100:3

… When our Lord spoke to the woman about Living Water and the salvation of her soul, the evil spirit prompted her to ask concerning Gerizim and Zion—"Our …

Christ's Love to His Spouse

Ephesians 5:25

… Let us give to Him all our heart's selection, for He is a jealous Savior and He will have all our love. So let us render it …

Lukewarmness

Revelation 3:15

… that I will not give my heart to it." Did Jesus Christ think salvation of such importance that He must come from Heaven to earth to work it …

Figs and Olives

James 3:12

… With Toplady, he sings— "Because Your Sovereign Love Was bent the worst to save— Jesus who reigns enthroned above, The free salvation gave." "Ah," says another friend, "but …

The Known and the Unknown

Ecclesiastes 6:12

… It will give us something comforting and cheering to look back upon, if we have submitted to Him and laid hold upon His way of salvation in Christ …

All the Promises

2 Corinthians 1:20

… And whether we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether …

The Love of Our Espousals

Jeremiah 2:2

… Do you recollect your first love? Oh, how clear it was—how warm! How undivided! How wholly given up to Christ! Did you love the Savior? You had …

Our Ascended Lord

1 Peter 3:22

… Our Savior died, but He rose again. It is a sort of courtesy to death to speak of the period of our Lord's entombment as three days …