“I am saved tonight, sir” said a bright-faced negro boy at the close of a Gospel meeting in Jamaica. “Saved! are you; how did that come about?” I asked. “It was the word that you spoke, sir,” he answered. “Will you tell me what that word was?” I inquired.
“‘If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart that shalt be saved’ (Romans 10:99That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (Romans 10:9)). While you were preaching I believed in my heart what you said, and when you had finished I told Tommy about it,” was his ready reply, and close beside him stood Tommy to bear witness to the truth of what he had told me.
Has anything like this ever happened in your history, my reader? “THOU SHALT BE SAVED” are wonderful words when they come from the lips of God, and His salvation is much to be desired, but what are the terms? “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”