Salvation Saves and Delivers 7/4 Thursday Thoughts

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's Four-fold Gospel 7/3 Wed. Wisdom

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 both Alliance and Pentecostal 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)

Know-So Salvation 7/2 Tuesday Truth

To be a successful evangelist or soul-winner, we, too, must have a definite testimony of know-so Salvation -- a definite knowledge of sins forgiven and of the hour when we were born again and all things became new.


--Aimee Semple McPherson

This will be the last of the Aimee Semple McPherson quotes. Starting tomorrow: Quotes from A.B. Simpson, The Fourfold Gospel. We will be covering the topics Christ our Savior, Sanctifier, Healer, and Coming King.

Why Not? 7/1 Monday Meditation

If, as you say, the Lord sends diseases, creates suffering bodies and sorrowing homes to make us better Christians, why not get some vials of germs, diphtheria, TB, infantile paralysis, etc., from the laboratories and scatter them over the congregation to make us all more patient and Christlike? If a little is good, would not more be better?




-- Aimee Semple McPherson

Sickness Sent by God? 6/28 Friday Faith

Q: May it not be that much of our sickness is sent from the hand of the Lord to make us better Christians or to keep us from wandering away?




A: This is an old and oft advanced theory but it is without foundation in the Word of God. The thought of our tender, sympathizing Jesus planting within His children cruel cancers to burn and gnaw and eat their way into the very heart of the sufferer, or paralysis to the limbs of little children that they can run and play no more, or blindness to the eyes of the father that he can no more more earn his daily bread. . .



This is not the work of our Lord but of the archfiend Satan whose work Jesus came to destroy. When the Lord made the world, it was pure, innocent, free from sin and sickness. 'Twas the devil who sowed these seeds but there is deliverance through the triune God for body, soul and Spirit.



-- Aimee Semple McPherson

No Such Handicap 6/27 Thursday Thoughts

(This follows on the heels of yesterday's meditation.)




How handicapped would Philip have been had he been obliged to preach a different Christ -- a limited Christ. He would needs have said unto Samaria:



"Now, dear people, while I am preaching Christ to you and telling of the things He did whilst on this earth, you must not expect to see them now, for the light of the supernatural and miraculous demonstrations of the power of Christ is passed away with His ascension."



Somehow I do not believe that the revival would have been nearly as great and wonderful. Do you? But, praise the Lord, he knew no such handicap and, as he preached Christ unto them, he was able to say:



"Come, dear sinner, come to the living Jesus now. Forsake your sin. Give Him your entire being, seek ye His face, believe on Him with the whole heart and even now He will be your Saviour."



-- Aimee Semple McPherson

He Preached Christ 6/26 Wednesday Wisdom

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