Three Things Worth Knowing

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I WAS SITTING in a gospel meeting one time when an old sailor got up and spoke. “I’ve been forty-two years learning three things,” he began.
I pricked up my ears. I thought, well, if I could learn in about three minutes what a man had taken forty-two years to learn, I should like to do so.
The first thing that he said he had learned was that he could do nothing towards his own salvation. “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” Romans 5:66For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. (Romans 5:6).
The second thing that he found out was that God did not require him to do anything. “Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” Romans 3:2424Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (Romans 3:24).
And the third thing was that the Lord Jesus had done it all, that the work of salvation was finished, and that all that he had to do was to TAKE IT and THANK GOD for it. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works lest any man should boast.” Eph. 2:8,98For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8‑9).
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