• Title Page
• Introduction
• The Nature of God
• The Nature of Moral Being
• The Nature of Sin
• The Nature of Moral Government
• The Nature of Justice
• The Nature of Mercy
• The Nature of Substitution
• The Nature of Grace
• The Nature of Salvation

The Nature of Salvation

Chapter IX

We have now seen how God has met and solved the problem of sin, and something of His provision for our complete and eternal salvation from its guilt, its power, and at last from its presence forever. It remains now to learn a few things on the meaning and receiving of such a salvation.

There is nothing difficult or complicated about it, for it is simplicity itself. It differs in no way from receiving a present and saying, Thank you, for it is a gift from God (Romans 6:23); just that and nothing else.

But Satan’s greatest activity with the unsaved is put forth at this very point. This is why their minds are in so much confusion and blindness, both on how to be saved, and how one may know when he is saved (II Corinthians 4:4). And so the way must be made so plain and simple that none can miss finding it.

One great reason why the lost are not eagerly seeking for some one to tell them how to be saved, is because they do not see their need of salvation. Satan suggests that they can get by with God without the need of anything more than a sincere desire to do right, and a proper regret when they fall into an “error” now and again.

Because sin is self-conceit “in person,” the lost are only too eager to believe this lie of their enemy, and many thus go out deceived into eternal night. Since they can think of numerous sins they would scorn to do, and since they believe they are