The California Collection/TheCaliforniaCollection.cdr/his019/saved.txt

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                    GOD'S SIMPLE PLAN OF SALVATION


         My Friend: I am asking you the most important question
    of life. Your joy or sorrow for all ETERNITY depends upon it.
    The question is: Are you SAVED? I mean... ARE YOU SURE you
    will go to Heaven when you die? It is not: Are you a member
    of some church?... But, Are you SAVED? It is not: How good
    are you?...but, ARE YOU SAVED?

         No one can enjoy the blessings of God, nor go to Heaven
    without being saved. Jesus said to Nicodemus in John 3:7,
    "YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN." God gives us in His Word the ONLY
    plan for Salvation. The plan is simple. You can be saved
    TODAY.

         First, my friend, you must realize YOU ARE A SINNER.
    "There is none righteous,no,not one." "For there is no
    difference: For ALL have sinned, and come short of the glory
    of God." Romans 3:10,22,23

         There is NO CHANCE to be saved unless you come to
    realize you are a SINNER.

         Beacuse you are a sinner, you are CONDEMNED TO DIE.
         "For the wages of sin is death."  Romans 6:23
         "Sin, Bringeth forth death." James 1:15

         This means separation from God, in HELL, FOREVER. How
    terrible. Yes my friend, but it is true. But God loved you so
    much that HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, Jesus Christ, as
    your SUBSTITUTE, Who bare YOUR sin, and died in YOUR place.

         "He hath made HIM (Jesus) to be SIN for US, who knew no
    sin; that WE might BE MADE the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God in HIM."
    2 Corinthians 5:21

         "Who His OWN SELF bare OUR sins in HIS own body on the
    tree, that WE, being dead in our sins, should live unto
    ritheousness: by whose stripes YE WERE HEALED." 1 Peter 2:24

         Jesus had to die. He had to shed HIS BLOOD. "For the
    LIFE of the flesh IS IN THE BLOOD." Leviticus 17:11. "Without
    the SHEDDING OF BLOOD there is no remission." Hebrews 9:22

         Now we cannot understand how our sin was laid upon
    Jesus, but God says in HIS WORD that it was. SO YOUR SIN, my
    friend, was laid UPON JESUS and HE DIED IN YOUR PLACE. It is
    true. God cannot lie.

         The Philippian jailor asked Paul and Silas: "What must I
    DO to be SAVED?"

         "And they said, BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
    THOU SHALT BE SAVED, and thy house."  Acts 16:31

         Simply believe on Him as the one who bore YOUR SIN, DIED
    in YOUR PLACE, was buried and was raised for YOUR
    JUSTIFICATION. Now call upon Him.

         "For WHOSOEVER shall call upon the name of the Lord,
    SHALL BE SAVED."  Romans 10:13

         The first prayer for a SINNER to pray is given in Luke
    18:13-- "God be merciful TO ME A SINNER." Now you are a
    sinner and surely you are sorry because of it. Right NOW,
    whereever you are lift your heart to God in prayer. It does
    not take a long, loud prayer, for God is ANXIOUS to save you.
    Just say: Oh God, I am a sinner, I am sorry, I repent, have
    MERCY upon me, and SAVE me for Jesus' sake. Now just take HIM
    at his word.

         "For WHOSOEVER, (that includes you) shall call upon the
    name of the Lord, SHALL BE SAVED,(SHALL BE, not might or can,
    but) SHALL BE SAVED."  Romans 10:13

         Just take God at His WORD. When you have done what He
    has asked, CLAIM SALVATION BY FAITH, according to HIS WORD.
    BELIEVE AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED. No church, no lodge, no good
    works, NO ONE BUT JESUS ONLY CAN SAVE YOU.

         The simple plan os salvation is: YOU ARE A SINNER;
    because you are a sinner you MUST DIE or else believe on
    Christ who was YOUR SUBSTITUTE and died in YOUR PLACE, was
    buried and was raised again. Just call upon GOD, REALIZING
    you are a sinner and ask Him to have mercy upon you and save
    you for JESUS' SAKE. Then jus take HIM AT HIS WORD and BY
    FAITH CLAIM SALVATION. You say, "Surely that is not all that
    is necessary to do to be saved." Yes it is, absolutely all.
    Thank God many have been won tyo Christ by this simple plan.
    It is SCRIPTURAL. IT IS GOD'S PLAN. My friend, BELIEVE IT AND
    FOLLOW IT TODAY. Now is the time-- Today is the day.

         "Behold, NOW is the accepted time; behold, NOW is the
    day of salvation."  2 Corinthians 6:2.

         "Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not
    what a day may bring forth."  Proverbs 27:1.

         If it is not perfectly clear, READ IT OVER and OVER
    until you understand it. Do not quit until you do. YOUR SOUL
    is worth more than all the world.

         "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the
    whole world, and lose HIS OWN SOUL? Or what shall a man give
    in exchange for his soul?" --Mark 8:36,37.

         BE SURE YOU ARE SAVED. YOU NEED SALVATION ABOVE
    EVERYTHING ELSE. IF YOU LOSE YOU SOUL YOU MISS HEAVEN AND
    LOSS ALL. GOD HELP YOU TO BE SAVED TODAY.

         He will save you and also KEEP YOU!

         "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is
    common to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you
    to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the
    temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to
    bear it." -- 1 Corinthians 10:13

         DO NOT trust your feelings. They change. STAND on GOD'S
    PROMISES. They NEVER change.

         AFTER YOU ARE SAVED THERE ARE THREE THINGS TO PRACTICE
    DAILY FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH:

         PRAY--You talk to God. READ YOUR BIBLE--God talks to
    you. WITNESS--You talk for God. THEN YOU SHOULD BE BAPTIZED
    and unite with a Bible-believing church.

         "Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him
    will I confess also before My Father which is in Heaven"
                                           Matthew 10:32

         AMEN AND AMEN