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- HOW TO BE SAVED
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- by D.L. Moody
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- Remember, it was the ark that saved Noah. It was not his righteousness, not
- his feelings, not his tears, not even his prayers. One moment he was outside
- the ark - in mortal danger. The next moment he was inside - safe.
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- It was the blood that saved Moses and the Israelites. God didn't say, "when I
- see Moses' feelings, or the feelings of the people, I will pass over you,"
- nor, "When I see you praying and weeping, I will pass over you," but, "When I
- see the blood I will pass over you." A little child, sheltered behind that
- blood was just as safe as Moses.
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- Look ! See the Jew take hyssop, dip it in the blood of the slain lamb and
- strike it on the doorpost. A moment ago the blood was not there. Now it is
- there, and he and his family are saved. For God says, "When I see the blood I
- will pass over you."
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- That was instantaneous. Some people say, "If I were only as good as that
- minister, or as good as that saintly woman who has been praying fifty years
- for the poor and unfortunate, I should feel so safe." My friends, if you are
- behind the blood, you are as safe as anyone. Righteousness and good works
- never brought safety to any man. "When I see the blood I will pass over you."
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- Death came that night. In Egypt, wherever the blood was on the doorposts he
- passed over; but where the blood was not found, he entered and took one away.
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- Death makes no distinction except when a man is behind the blood.
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- Be wise, now, and shelter under the blood of the slain Lamb of God. His blood
- is on the mercy seat, and while it is there you can be saved.
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- "The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life." Who will
- have the gift, now?
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- Someone inquires. "But how about repentance?" What is repentance? It is a
- right-about-face. Everyone is born with his back toward God, as it were.
- Conversion turns him right round. You are in the broad path to hell. But turn,
- leave your old friends and unite yourself with God's people. Get out of
- Satan's service and get into the Lord's. Who will turn his feet toward God?
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- Yonder is the brazen serpent on the pole. God says to the Israelites, dying of
- the bite of the fiery serpents, "Look and live!" Merely looking at the piece
- of brass can't cure the bite. It is God who cures it. Looking is the
- requirement. And God expects obedience. One moment the sufferer is dying, the
- next he lives and is well. Don't look at the bite of sin, look to Jesus.
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- "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man
- be lifted up, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have
- everlasting life." Look! "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ." How long does it
- take a man to believe, or how long does it take a man to look?
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- Some believe in educating people to be Christians. But you need not go to
- college to learn how to look. How long do you educate a child to look? The
- mother merely says, "Look!" and her child responds.
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- Who will look, now, and live? Turn your eyes to Calvary; believe on the Lord
- Jesus Christ and be saved.
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- --arranged.
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