The Doctrine of Salvation Jesus Christ, the Only Savior of the Lost. Dearly
Bought, but Free Salvation By DR. RALPH ATKINSON
quarters I am afraid the word has been “scrapped” entirely. Nevertheless it is one of the great words of the Bible, and must ever be a word precious to God. It is found more than one hundred and fifty times in the scriptures. The term has a wide application in scripture. We confine it largely to cover the implication of the text. 1, Physical Salvation. Undoubtedly Peter has the cure of the impotent man in minid when he .uses the word. For over forty years the un named cripple had suffered from his in firmity. Money hdd been spent in the hope of effecting a cure but to no use. Was the belief general that Peter and John were directly responsible for the remarkable cure of the lame man? “By -what power or in what name have ye done this?” the rulers enquired. Peter’s answer is ready, “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth doth this man stand here before you whole.” “And in none other is there salvation”. Peter may have been the medium but Christ could have effected the man’s cure apart from Peter and John. So today, whether phy sicians and medicines are used or not the real healer of the believer’s body is the one who made it. 2. National Salvation.' Cannon Liddon has suggested that when Peter used the word he “meant the particular salvation which the Mes siah was to bring — the sal vation to which Israel as a nation was looking, forward. Israel was the real cripple after all and the rulers knew it. The Roman Conqueror had. broken his limbs and the nation lay bound and prostrate and powerless, i Israel, must be
Acts 4:12. “And in none other is there salvation”.
RRAIGNED BEFORE the Jew ish leaders and asked to ex plain the cure of the cripple, at the Gate Beautiful on the day
before, “Peter filled with the Holy Ghost (8-12), said unto them, Ye rulers of the. people, and elders of Israel, If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; Be it known unto you all, and to all. the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand before you whole. This is the stone which was set at naught of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we may be saved.” Not long before Jesus had declared Himself to be “the Way, the Truth and the Life” in suGh an emphatic manner that no other hope of salvation was left open to man, all avenues of approach to God being at' once closed by His declar- atiofa. Loyal to his Lord and true to his commission how splendidly the chief apostle holds these representatives of the Jewish people to the one great fact that salvation rests in Christ Jesus alone. Its Scope. Is it not true that the word “salva tion” has become somewhat obsolete, and is but infrequently heard from many evangelical pulpits today? In many
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