Acts 16:30-31 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?… I. WHAT SINNERS MUST DO TO BE SAVED. 1. They must not imagine that they have nothing to do. 2. Not mistake what they have to do. 3. Not say or imagine that they cannot do what God requires. 4. Not procrastinate. 5. Not wait for God to do what He commands them to do. 6. Not wait for God to do anything whatever. God has either done all on His part already, or if anything more remains, He is ready and waiting this moment for you to do your duty that He may impart all needful grace. 7. Not flee to any refuge of lies. 8. Not seek for any self-indulgent method of salvation. 9. Not imagine you will ever have a more favourable time. 10. Not suppose that you will find another time as good, and one in which you can just as well repent as now. 11. Not wait to see what others will do or say. 12. Not indulge prejudices against God, His ministers, Christians, or anything religious. II. WHAT SINNERS MUST DO TO BE SAVED. You must — 1. Understand what you have to do. 2. Return and confess your sins to God. 3. Renounce yourself. In this is implied that you renounce — (1) Your own righteousness, forever discarding the very idea of having any righteousness in yourself. (2) The idea of having done any good which ought to commend you to God, or be ever thought of as a ground of your justification. (3) Your own will, and be ever ready to say not in word only, but in heart — "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." (4) Your own way and let God have His own way in everything. 4. Come to Christ. You must accept of Christ really and fully as your Saviour. 5. Seek supremely to please Christ, and not yourself. 6. Forsake all that you have, or you cannot be Christ's disciple. There must be absolute and total self-denial. 7. Believe the record God hath given of His Son. "This is the record that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son." (C. G. Finney, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?WEB: and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" |
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