Salvation: The Gospel Message

“You will never have peace in death; I do not see how you are to have solid rest in life without a sharp, crisp, clearly-cut idea of how Christ is the salvation of God!”–1893, Sermon 2293

“If it were certain that God did not pardon sin, everybody would despair, and so, again, there would be nobody to fear Him, for a despairing heart grows hard like the nether millstone. Because they have no hope, men go on to sin worse and worse. But there is forgiveness with God that He may be feared. The devils never repent, for there is no par- don for them. There is no Gospel preached in hell and, consequently, there is no relenting, no repenting, no turning towards God among lost spirits. But there is forgiveness with Him that He may be feared by you. What a wonderful effect pardon has upon a man!”–1895, Sermon 2422

“At this time, the salvation of our Lord Jesus Christ is the same as it was in all ages. Jesus Christ still saves sinners from the guilt, the power, the punishment, and the defilement of sin. Still, ‘there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved’ (Act 4:12). Jesus Christ still makes all things new. He creates new hearts and right spirits in the sons of men and engraves His Law upon the tablets which once were stone, but which He has turned into flesh. There is no new salvation! Some may talk as if there were, but there is not! Salvation means to you today just what it meant to Saul of Tarsus on the way to Damascus. If you think it has another meaning, you have missed it altogether!”–1894, Sermon  2358

“If you ask for wealth, you may not get it; for it is a small and paltry thing which the Lord may not care to give you. But if you ask for eternal life, you shall have it; for this is a great thing and God delights to give the greatest blessings to those who come to Him by Christ Jesus, so that what might seem to hinder should now encourage!”–1894, Sermon 2380

​“If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it your- selves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.”–1893, Sermon 2300

“O Lord Jesus, hold Your Cross before my closing eyes! O blessed Redeemer, what will a man do in death who has not Your death to be the death of his sin? How can a man live who has never seen You lay down Your life in His place, ‘the Just for the unjust, to bring us to God’?”–1891, Sermon 2207

“There is the same power with God to forgive sin as there used to be, for the blood of Jesus is as powerful to cleanse as it ever was! Note also that there is the same power of the Holy Spirit to change your nature as there ever was. He who turned Saul of Tarsus from an enemy into an Apostle can do just the same with you. Of old, conversion was likened to the raising of the dead; and He Who has quickened many a dead soul can quicken your dead soul and raise you from the dead! It was also called a new creation, and He Who made all things new in other men can make all things new in you! ”–1895, Sermon 2411

“I have heard all the news I need when I have heard of eternal salvation by Jesus Christ!”–1893,  Sermon 2293

“A man who is asleep cannot be said to look, and yet it is ‘unto them that look for Him’ (Heb 9:28) that the Lord comes with salvation. We must be wide awake to look!...It ought to be a daily disappointment when our Lord does not come—instead of being, as I fear it is, a kind of foregone conclusion that He will not come just yet.”–1891, Sermon 2194

“I remember when the Lord put that precious ointment upon my wounded spirit. Nothing ever healed me until I understood that He died in my place—died that I might not die! And now, today, my heart would bleed itself to death were it not that I believe that He, ‘his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree’ ” (1Pe 2:24)–1892, Sermon 2260

“When you receive Christ into your heart, He cannot be taken away from  you!”–1894,
Sermon 2350

“If our preaching does not turn men from drunkenness to sobriety, from thieving to honesty, from unchastity to purity, then our Gospel is not worth a button! But if it does all this, then this shall be the evidence that it comes from God, seeing that in the world so sorely diseased by sin, it works the wondrous miracle of curing men of these deadly evils!”–1894, Sermon 2352

“Christ and His Gospel will always be spoken against. If you know a gospel which is approved by the age and patronized by the learned, that gospel is a lie!”–1893, Sermon 2293