The Way of Salvation
What must I do to be saved? Saved
from what? What is it you wished to be saved from? Hell? That proves
nothing. Nobody wants to go there. The issue between God and man is SIN.
Do you wish to be saved from it? WHAT IS SIN? Sin is a species of
rebellion against God. It is self-pleasing; it is the utter ignoring of
God’s claims,- being completely indifferent whether my conduct pleases
or displeases Him.
Before God saves a man, He convicts
him of his sinner ship. By this I do not mean that he says with
everybody else, “Oh yes, we are all sinners, I know that.”
Rather do I mean that the Holy
Spirit makes me feel In my heart that I have been a life-long rebel
against God, and that my sins are many.
Have you ever had that experience?
Have you seen yourself to be totally unfit for heaven, and for the
presence of a Holy God? Do you now perceive that there is no good thing
in you, nothing good credited to your account, that all the way through
you have loved the things God hates and hated the things God loves?
Has the realization of this broken
your heart before God? Has it made you mourn that you have so despised
His mercies, misused, His blessings, broken His Sabbaths, neglected His
Word, and given Him no real place at all in your thoughts, affections
and life? If you have not yet seen and felt this personally, then at
present there is no hope for you, for God says, “EXCEPT YE REPENT, YE
SHALL ALL LIKEWISE PERISH” (Luke 13:3). And if you die in your present
condition, you will be lost forever.
But if you have been brought to the
place where sin is your greatest plague, where offending God is your
greatest grief, and where your deepest desire is now to please and honor
Him; then there is hope for you. “The Son of man came to seek and to
save tat which is lost” (Luke 19:10). And He will save you, providing
you are ready and willing to throw down the weapons of your warfare
against Him, bow to His Lordship, and surrender yourself to His control.
His blood can wash the foulest
clean. His grace can support and uphold the weakest. His power can
deliver the tried and tempted. “Behold now is the accepted time; behold,
now is the day salvation” (2 Cor 6:2). Yield yourself to Christ’s
claims. Give Him the throne of your heart. Turn over to Him the
regulation of your life. Trust in His atoning death. Love Him with all
your soul. Obey Him with all your might and He will conduct you to
heaven. “Believe on the LORD Jesus Christ and though shalt be saved”
(Acts 16:31).
-A. W. Pink (1935)
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