Genuine Salvation (Pink)
Description
It is now almost universally supposed that saving faith is nothing more than an act of the human will, which any man is capable of performing: all that is needed is to bring before a sinner a few verses of Scripture which describe his lost condition, one or two which contain the word "believe," and then a little persuasion for him to "accept Christ," and the thing is done. And the awful thing is that so very, very few, see anything wrong with this - blind to the fact that such a process is only the devil's drug to lull thousands into a false peace.
Here, then is the explanation why true repentance is so little preached today. The sense of God's government supremacy has been lost, the claims of His righteousness are ignored, the unchanging demands of His holy Law are no longer recognized, hence, the unregenerate, not knowing God, having no sense of His infinite glory, and there being practically nothing in present-day preaching to instruct them therein, it follows that all their fancied reverence for and devotion to God takes its rise from merely selfish consideration, nothing but self-love lying at the bottom of the modern "Christianity."
Table of Contents:
Introduction by William C. Nichols
- Regeneration
- The Necessity of Regeneration
- The Nature of Regeneration
- The Effects of Regeneration
- The Essence of Regeneration
- Repentance
- The Necessity of Repentance
- The Nature of Repentance
- The Implications of Repentance
- The Fruits of Repentance
- Coming to Christ
- Obstacles in Coming to Christ
- Coming to Christ With Our Understandings
- Coming to Christ With Our Affections
- Coming to Christ with the Will
- Have You Really Come to Christ?
- Saving Faith
- The Counterfeits of Saving Faith
- The Nature of Saving Faith
- The Difficulty of Saving Faith
- The Communication of Saving Faith
- The Evidences of Saving Faith
- Signs of the Times
Author
A.W. Pink (1886-1952) served as a pastor for churches in Colorado, California, Kentucky, and South Carolina. His ministry brought him throughout the United States, Australia, and Great Britain.