Please read the following GOOD NEWS by Ford Porter

+ God's Simple Plan of Salvation +

MY FRIEND I am asking you the most important question of life. Your

joy or your sorrow for all ETERNITY depends upon it. The question is:

Are you saved? I mean... ARE YOU SURE you will go to Heaven when you

die? It is not: Are you a member of some church?...but, are you saved?

It is not: How good are you?... but, are you saved?

No one can enjoy the blessings of God, nor go to Heaven without

being saved. Jesus said to Nicodemus in John 3:7, "Ye must be born

again." God gives us in His word the ONLY plan for Salvation. The plan

is simple! You can be saved TODAY.

First, my friend, you must realize YOU ARE A SINNER. "There is none

righteous, no, not one." "For there is no difference: For ALL have

sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:10, 22, 23).

There is NO CHANCE to be saved unless you come to realize you are a

SINNER.

Because you are a sinner, you are CONDEMNED TO DIE. "For the wages

of sin is death" (Romans 6:23). "Sin...bringeth forth death" (James

1:15).

This means separation from God, in HELL FOREVER. How terrible! Yes,

my friend, but it is true. But God loved you so much that HE GAVE HIS

ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, Jesus Christ, as your SUBSTITUTE, who bore YOUR sin

and died in YOUR place.

"He hath made HIM [Jesus] to be sin for US, who knew no sin; that WE

might BE MADE the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God in HIM"(2 Corinthians 5:21).

"Who his OWN SELF bare OUR sins in HIS own body on the tree, that WE,

being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes YE

WERE HEALED" (1 Peter 2:24)

Jesus had to die. He had to shed HIS BLOOD. "For the LIFE of the

flesh IS IN THE BLOOD" (Leviticus 17:11) "Without the SHEDDING OF BLOOD

there is no remission" (Hebrews 9:22).

Now we cannot understand how sin was laid upon Jesus, but God says

in HIS WORD that it was. SO YOUR SIN, my friend, was laid UPON JESUS

and HE DIED IN YOUR PLACE. It is true. God cannot lie.

The Phillippian jailer asked Paul and Silas: "What must I DO to be

SAVED?"

"And they said, BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ, and THOU SHALL BE

SAVED, and thy house" (Acts 16:31).

Simply believe on Him as the one who bore YOUR SIN, DIED, only you

are sorry because of it.

Right NOW, wherever you are, lift your heart to God in prayer. It

does not take a long, loud prayer, for God is ANXIOUS to save you. Just

say: "Oh, God, I am a sinner, I am sorry, I repent; have MERCY upon me,

and save me for Jesus' sake." Now just take HIM at His word.

"For WHOSOEVER [that includes YOU] shall call upon the name of the

Lord SHALL BE SAVED" (Romans 10:13). Whosoever...shall be saved (not

might or can) but SHALL BE SAVED.

Just take God at His WORD. When you have done what He has asked,

CLAIM SALVATION BY FAITH, according to HIS WORD. BELIEVE AND YOU SHALL

BE SAVED. No church, no lodge, no good works, NO ONE BUT JESUS ONLY CAN

SAVE YOU.

The simple plan of salvation is: YOU ARE A SINNER, and because you

are a sinner, you MUST DIE or else believe on Christ, who was YOUR

SUBSTITUTE, who died in YOUR PLACE, and who was buried and raised

again. Just call upon GOD, REALIZING you are a sinner and ask Him to

have mercy upon you for JESUS' SAKE. Then take HIM AT HIS WORD and BY

FAITH CLAIM SALVATION. You say, "Surely that is not all that is

necessary to do to be saved." Yes it is, absolutely all. Thank God many

have been won to Christ by this simple plan. It is SCRIPTURAL. IT IS

GOD'S PLAN. My friend, BELIEVE IT AND FOLLOW IT TODAY. Now is the time

- today is the day.

"Behold, NOW is the accepted time; behold. NOW is the day of

salvation" (2 Corinthians 6:2). "Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for

thou knowest not what a day may bring forth" (Proverbs 27:1).

If it is not perfectly clear, READ IT OVER and OVER until you

understand it. Do not lay this tract down until you do. YOUR SOUL is

worth more than all the world.

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world,

and lose HIS OWN SOUL? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his

soul?" (Mark 8:36, 37).

BE SURE YOU ARE SAVED. YOU NEED SALVATION ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE. IF

YOU LOSE YOUR SOUL, YOU MISS HEAVEN AND LOSE ALL. GOD HELP YOU TO BE

SAVED TODAY.

He will save you and also KEEP YOU!

"There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man;

but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that

ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape,

that ye may be able to bear it" (1 Corinthians 10:13).

DO NOT trust your feelings. They change. STAND on GOD'S PROMISES.

They NEVER change.

AFTER YOU ARE SAVED, THERE ARE THREE THINGS TO PRACTICE DAILY FOR

SPIRITUAL GROWTH:

PRAY - you talk to God. READ YOUR BIBLE - God talks to you. WITNESS

- you talk for God. THEN YOU SHOULD BE BAPTIZED and unite with a

Bible-believing church.

"Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess

also before my Father which is in heaven" (Matthew 10:32).

FORD PORTER