How to Be Saved and How to Be Lost: The Way of Salvation and the Way of Condemnation Made as Plain as Day

by Reuben A. Torrey

Overview

The purpose of this book is to make the way of salvation as plain as day to men, women, and children, with the expectation that many of those who read the book will see the way, will take it, will be saved at once, and will obtain eternal life. The book goes out into the world for the same purpose that Jesus Christ came into it: to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10 AKJV).

Did you know that more people are shut out of Jesus Christ's saving grace, pardon, heaven, and eternal life because they won't come to Jesus Christ as sinners – plain, ugly, wretched sinners? Far more people are shut out of heaven by the pride that keeps them from crying, God be merciful to me a sinner, than are shut out by the enormity of their sins or by the stubbornness of their infidelity. It is as true today as it was when Jesus Christ first said it to the moralists of His own day: The publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you (Matthew 21:31).

Christ Jesus came not merely to save the sinner from the guilt of his sins and from the penalty of his sins, but to save him also from the power of sin. Yes, we have all known something about the bondage of sin, but listen to what Jesus Christ: If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:36 ASV). Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has all power . . . in heaven and in earth (Matthew 28:18 AKJV), and is therefore able to save to the uttermost all those who come to God through Him (Hebrews 7:25); He saves us from all the slavery of sin. He saves us from sin's power as well as from sin's guilt. That is what He came to do; that is what He does do.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160967523
Publisher:	Aneko Press
Publication date:	02/01/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	220,453
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Reuben Archer Torrey traveled all over the world leading evangelistic tours, preaching to the unsaved. It is believed that more than one hundred thousand were saved under his preaching. Torrey married Clara Smith in 1879, with whom he had five children. In 1908, he helped start the Montrose Bible Conference in Pennsylvania, which continues today. He became dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now Biola University) in 1912, and was the pastor of the Church of the Open Door in Los Angeles from 1915 to 1924. Torrey continued speaking all over the world and holding Bible conferences. He died in Asheville, North Carolina, on October 26, 1928.