44. Free Salvation

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“G. H.” Ezek. 3:20,20Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. (Ezekiel 3:20) and many kindred passages, present man in responsibility under the government of God; they cannot, therefore, be applied to one who is the subject of free, sovereign and unqualified grace. The gospel meets me as an utterly lost shinier, as one condemned under the law. It brings me a full and an unconditional salvation. It gives me eternal life, not temporary or conditional life. It is truly wonderful how men, with the Bible in their hands, can talk about “the possibility of a believer in Jesus being lost.” It shows very plainly that they neither understand the totality of man's ruin, nor the reality of God's salvation. As to James 2:14,14What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? (James 2:14) the little word “say” is the key to it, and to the entire context. The apostle does not say, “What cloth it profit though a man have faith?” Mere lip profession is valueless to God and man. Of what use is it to say, “I go, sir,” if we do not go Oh! for reality! May the Lord stir up our hearts, and lead us forth in genuine devotion to Christ! We live in a day of widespread profession. The doctrines of the gospel are too much taken up in the intellect, without any true exercise of soul before God, and the result is a merely worldly profession, which is really paving the way for infidelity. What we want is whole-hearted consecration; and we ask you, dear friend, and all our Christian readers, to join us in waiting on the Lord for more spiritual energy—more depth of work in the soul more separation from everything that tends to hinder our testimony to our absent Lord. May God grant us these things more and more abundantly, to the praise of His holy name!