“While we must always remember that it is our responsibility to proclaim salvation, we must never forget that it is God who saves. It is God who brings men and women under the sound of the gospel, and it is God who brings them to faith in Christ. Our evangelistic work is the instrument that He uses for this purpose, but the power that saves is not in the instrument: it is in the hand of the One who uses the instrument. We must not at any stage forget that. For if we forget that it is God’s prerogative to give results when the gospel is preached, we shall start to think that it is our responsibility to secure them. And if we forget that only Good can give faith, we shall start to think that the making of converts depends, in the last analysis, not on God, but on us, and that the decisive factor is the way in which we evangelize” (Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God [Downers Grove: IVP, 1961], p. 27).


I thank God that He does not depend on my eloquence or persuasiveness to save sinners. God tells us in Jonah 2:9 that “Salvation is of the Lord.” My responsibility is to share the gospel (Mark 16:15). Jesus saves!

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