Real Salvation and Whole-Hearted Service
Overview
Beginning with questions found in the book of Genesis, Torrey’s passionate sermons move to explore various themes and doctrines in the Bible, methods of spreading the good news of Christ, and the dangers of rejecting Christ.
Top Highlights
“Men will give you many reasons why they are sceptics, many reasons why they are infidels and agnostics and atheists, but in the great majority of cases the real reason is this—men hope by the denial of the existence of God to hide themselves from the discomfort of God’s acknowledged presence.” (Page 10)
“‘Oh, Brother Norris, I have been a professing Christian for forty years. I am now dying, and have just found out in my dying hour that I was never saved at all.’ ’” (Page 17)
“nobody can be saved who will not accept Jesus Christ as his Saviour.” (Page 129)
“God tells us in His Word, and we know it from experience, that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked (Jer. 27:9). There is nothing that the human heart is so deceitful about as about our moral and spiritual condition. Every man and woman by nature is very sharp-sighted to the faults of others, and very blind to their own faults. What we need is to face this question in prayer. You will never know where you stand until God shows you. Not till we pray at least the substance of David’s prayer, ‘Search me, O God, and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me,’ and God sheds the light of His Holy Spirit into our hearts, and shows us ourselves as He sees us, will we ever know ourselves as we really are.” (Pages 15–16)
“God has given to you and me only one safe chart and compass to guide us on our voyage through life toward eternity. That chart and compass is the Bible—the book I hold in my hand. If you steer your course according to this book, you steer safely; if you steer your course according to your own feelings, according to the speculation of the petty philosopher or the theologian, according to anything but the clear declaration of the only book of God, you steer your course to shipwreck. Any hope that is not founded on the clear, unmistakable teaching of God’s Word is absolutely worthless.” (Pages 17–18)
- Title: Real Salvation and Whole-Hearted Service
- Author: R. A. Torrey
- Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
- Publication Date: 1905
- Pages: 267
Reuben Archer Torrey (1856–1928) was an American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer. Torrey studied at Yale University, Yale Divinity School, Leipzig University, Erlangen University and received a doctorate degree from Wheaton College.
Soon after becoming a congregational minister, Torrey joined Dwight L. Moody in his evangelistic work in Chicago. Torrey became the superintendent of the Bible Institute of the Chicago Evangelization Society (now Moody Bible Institute).
He later became pastor of the Chicago Avenue Church (now the Moody Church). Torrey later served as a chaplain with the YMCA and dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now Biola University).
Torrey authored over 40 books in his lifetime. The classic four-volume set The Fundamentals includes over 90 articles by leading Christian scholars. The R. A. Torrey Collection features 15 titles of biblical doctrine and teaching from Torrey.