What Salvation Brings to Us (part 2)

4. Salvation gives us a new heart... Every spark of life from the old polluted nature is worthless, and the divine nature is born in us as a part of our very being.

 5. Salvation gives us grace to live day by day...  Salvation takes us out of prison, and provides for all our needs besides.

 6. It brings to us the help of the Holy Spirit, ... helping our infirmities and bringing grace for every time of need.

-- A. B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What Salvation Brings to Us (part 3)

7. It brings to us the care of God's providence, causing all things to work together for our good.  This is never true until we are saved: but when we are the children of God all things in earth and in heaven are on our side.
8. Salvation opens the way for all the blessings that follow it.  It is the stepping stone to sanctification and healing, and the peace that passeth understanding...
9. Salvation brings us to eternal life.  

-- A. B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What Salvation Brings to Us

1. It brings the forgiveness of all our sins and entirely removes them... They can never appear against us again.




2. It brings us justification in the sight of God, so that we stand before Him as righteous beings. We are accepted as though we had done everything He had commanded, and had perfectly kept the law in every particular.



3. It brings us into the favor and love of God, and secures us full acceptance in the person of Jesus. He loves us as He loves His only begotten Son.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What Salvation Does for Us

4. It delivers us also from our evil conscience. There is always a shadow left on our hearts by sin, and a feeling of remorse... It takes the shadow from the heart and the stinging memory of sin from the soul.

5. It delivers from an evil heart, which is the source of all the sin in the life... Salvation frees us from its power and gives us a new nature.

6. It frees us from the fear of death... The death-bed of God's children is to them the portal of heaven...

7. Salvation delivers us from Satan's power and kingdom...

8. Beyond all else, salvation delivers us from eternal death...

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Salvation Saves and Delivers

I. WHAT IT SAVES US FROM (continued)




2. Salvation saves us from the wrath of God. God hates evil and must punish it somehow. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness of men. But from this salvation delivers us.



3. Salvation delivers us from the curse of the law. . . Salvation delivers us from this curse through Him who was made a curse for us.



-- A. B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Intro to A.B. Simpson: The Four-fold Gospel

Today we begin a series of quotes by A.B. Simpson (1843-1919), prolific author and songwriter, editor, healer, college founder, and founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination. Simpson was the first well-known leader to teach that all of the First Corinthians 12 gifts of the Holy Spirit are available today, including tongues and healing. He taught that healing is in the Atonement. That is, that Christ died for our healing as well as dying for our sins. He taught that we can bring about Christ's soon return by increasing our efforts at world evangelism. The quotes are from The Four-fold Gospel, a book which established Alliance theology.




Let us look a little at what it means to be saved. It is not at all a little thing... Christ said that it was greater to have one's name written in heaven than to be able to cast out devils. What does salvation mean?



I. WHAT IT SAVES US FROM



1. It takes away the guilt of sin. It frees us from all liability and punishment for past offences. Sin deserves punishment. Salvation takes this all away. Is it not glorious to be saved? (to be continued)

He Preached Christ

We read that "when Philip was come down unto Samaria, he preached Christ unto them." He did not preach politics, social reform, community uplift, theories or doctrinal differences, but he preached CHRIST. -- Not a different Christ than He who walked the shores of Galilee, forgiving sin and healing the sick. Not a limited Christ whose power had waned, nor a far-off Christ who could not hear, but the Christ whose power was just the same -- a Christ who had said: "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."




-- Aimee Semple McPherson