We always tend to forge tthat every New Testament letter was written to Christians and not to non-Christians; and the appeals in terms of ethics…
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Now that is obvious in any one of the Epistles, and it is equally obvious here. Take any Epistles you like. You will find that…
Starting yesterday, my Pastor is putting the pause button on his series in the Psalms and taking a bit of a detour. The new series…
I’m crossposting this on my blog and on Christian SOUL Food, but it’s a good post. Practical Predestination? by Octavius Winslow There are no guesses,…
What Is True Discipleship ? 1. Denial of self in order to follow Christ (Luke 9:23-26). Picking up one’s cross and denying oneself and following…
Transcribed from a sermon by Dan Phillips of Soaring Oaks Presbyterian in California: I think that some things are unique by a thin margin and…
Happy Independence Day, folks! I thought a good post on the believer’s liberation from SIN would be appropriate today. Here’s the latest from Christian Soul…
I posted this on the CSF devotional list, but figured I’d share here as well.
From Arthur Pink’s book “Studies in Saving Faith” – chapter 13, he writes:
Having before us the twofold objective named above, let us ask the question, Is a simple faith in Christ sufficient to save a soul for time and eternity? At the risk of some readers turning away from this article and refusing to read further, we unhesitatingly answer, No, it is not. The Lord Jesus Himself declared, “Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3). Repentance is just as essential to salvation as is believing. Again, we read that,
“wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead” (James 2:20).
A “simple faith” which remains alone, a faith which does not purify the heart (Acts 15:9), work by love (Galatians 5:6), and overcome the world (1 John 5:4), will save nobody.
Much confusion has been caused in many quarters through failure to define clearly what it is from which the sinner needs saving. Only too often the thought of many minds is restricted to Hell. But that is a very inadequate conception, and often proves most misleading. The only thing which can ever take any creature to Hell is unrepented and unforgiven sin. Now on the very first page of the N.T. the Holy Spirit has particularly recorded it that, the incarnate Son of God was named “Jesus” because “he shall save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21). Why is it that that which God has placed at the forefront is relegated to the rear by most of modern evangelists? To ask a person if he has been saved from Hell is much more ambiguous than to inquire if he has been saved from his sins.
Let us attempt to enlarge on this a little, for thousands of professing Christians in these days have but the vaguest idea of what it means to be saved from sin.
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Did you pray the sinner’s prayer before ?
Here’s why I ask…
No doubt, if you’ve been to church at least once in your life, you’ve heard something along the lines of ‘believe that you’re a sinner and Jesus died for you and ask Him to come into your life and save you.’ You were no doubt, given a scripted prayer that went along those same lines and told to ‘say it and really mean it’.
Immediately afterward (sometimes before the prayer), you may have been presented with the opportunity ‘come down the aisle’ or ‘come to the altar’ and make this a public declaration.
You were probably told that these two things (or any one of them by themselves) may have made you a Christian.
Sometimes, this presentation may have been given to us as children or at very young ages.
I have a few questions to ask you.