SAVED BY CHRIST
“If
salvation depends upon our being or doing anything, we shall
inevitably be lost. Thank God, it does not; for the great fundamental
principle of the gospel is that Christ is all: man is nothing.
It is
not a mixture of Christ and man---it is all of Christ. The peace of
the gospel does not rest in part on Christ's work and in part on
man's work; it rests wholly on Christ's work, because that work is
perfect, perfect forever; and it renders all who put their trust in
Him as perfect as Himself!
Christ
must either be a whole Saviour or no Saviour at all. The moment a man
says, 'Except you be this or that, you cannot be saved,' he totally
subverts the gospel; for in the gospel I find Christ coming down to
me, just as I am--a lost, guilty, self-destroyed sinner; and coming,
moreover, with a full remission of all my sins, and a full salvation
from my lost estate, all perfectly wrought by Himself on the
cross.”
-Gospel
report by preacher C. H. Mackintosh (1820–1896 A.D.)
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