 Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man lifted up, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, that those who are bitten by the old serpent may look unto Jesus and live. Our sinnership is that emptiness into which the Lord pours his mercy. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
| Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
| There are two great truths which from this platform I have proclaimed for many years. The first is that salvation is free to every man who will have it; the second is that God gives salvation to a people whom He has chosen; and these truths are not in conflict with each other in the least degree. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
| They believe the doctrine of election, but they have not the faith of God's elect. They swear by final perseverance, but persevere in unbelief. They confess all the five points of Calvinism, but they have not come to the one most needful point of looking unto Jesus, that they may be saved. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: 17.531. |
| Those children who are of sufficient years to sin and be saved by faith have to listen to the gospel and receive it by faith. And they can do this, God the Holy Spirit helping them. There is no doubt about it, because great numbers have done it. I will not say at what age children are first capable of receiving the knowledge of Christ, but it is much earlier than some fancy. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
| We say that Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved, but are saved, must be saved, and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but saved. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
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| When a man is saved by divine grace, he is not wholly cleansed from the corruption of his heart. When we believe in Jesus Christ all our sins are pardoned; yet the power of sin, albeit that it is weakened and kept under by the dominion of the new-born nature which God doth infuse into our souls, doth not cease, but still tarrieth in us, and will do so to our dying day. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Indwelling Sin, Sermon from Job 40:3-4. |
| You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences: Salvation is all of the grace of God. Damnation is all of the will of man. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
| For those who have not yet turned to the Lord for His salvation, their condition of suffering often creates compelling opportunities for them to cry out to God for His help. To those who do so in truth, He shows His mercy for their temporal plight and provides grace for their new life in Christ and their eternal destiny. Author: T.A. McMahon |
| Saving faith is not just believing that Jesus lived and died. Faith that saves is the confident, continuous confession of total dependence on, and trust in Jesus Christ to meet the requirements on your behalf to give you entrance into God's Eternal Kingdom. It's the surrender of your life in complete trust to Him to do what you cannot do. Author: John MacArthur |
| A person who is not concerned about having his present sins cleansed has good reason to doubt that his past sin has been forgiven. A person who has no desire to come to the Lord for continued cleansing has reason to doubt that he ever came to the Lord to receive salvation. Author: John MacArthur
Source: Matthew 1-7, p. 475. |
| Salvation by faith does not eliminate good works per se. It does away with works that are the result of human effort alone. It abolishes any attempt to merit God's favor by our works. But it does not deter God's foreordained purpose that our walk of faith should be characterized by good works. Author: John MacArthur
Source: The Gospel According to Jesus |
