THE TRUTH AND EXPERIENCE OF GOD’S SALVATION

THE TRUTH AND EXPERIENCE OF GOD’S SALVATION

Lesson Thirty

IV. How to be Saved

B. From death

3. By calling on the Lord’s Name – Rom. 10:13; Matt. 1:21b

Burden to Impart:

The previous lesson on being born again talks about the initial way to be saved from death. This lesson goes on to show the way to continue being saved from death. We need to be saved from death daily, even moment by moment. We need to see that calling on the Lord is a practical way to be saved from death. There will be another lesson in six weeks which will also cover calling on the Lord’s name. The emphasis in this lesson is that calling on the Lord’s name saves us from death. Calling on the Lord’s name is vitally necessary in order for us, the believers in Christ, to participate in and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ. It is God's commandment and desire that His people call on Him. This is the joyful way to drink from the fountain of God's salvation and the enjoyable way to delight oneself in God, that is, to enjoy Him. Hence, God's people must call upon Him daily.

Memory Verse: “For ‘whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’” (Romans 10:13)

Facts to Teach:

1. Calling on the name of the Lord is the secret to our salvation from death. It is also the secret to our enjoyment of the Lord's riches.

2. As God's chosen and redeemed ones we may enjoy Christ's redemption and salvation and all His riches by means of this secret.

3. Lamentations 3:55-56 indicates that our calling on the Lord is our breathing. To be saved from the death of our physical body, we need to breathe constantly. To be saved from inward death, we also need to breathe constantly. To breathe Christ in as our breath, we need to call on Him.

4. Isaiah 12:3-4 indicates that our calling on the Lord is our drinking. To drink Christ as our living water we need to call on Him. Drinking is a vital function to maintain our life. Encourage the young people to drink often during the day.

5. The human life is full of all kinds of suffering and death. We have a real need of enjoyment to be saved from this death. Calling on the name of the Lord is the joyful way to drink from the fountain of God's salvation and the enjoyable way to delight oneself in God, that is, to enjoy Him. Calling on the name of the Lord will make you joyful! Calling on the name of the Lord is enjoyable! Calling on the name of the Lord is delightful! The young people need to learn to delight themselves in God!

6. If time allows, there are lots of examples of men who called on the Lord (beginning from the third generation of mankind) in footnote 21¹ in Acts 2.

[See Gospel Outlines, by W. Lee, Subject 158; also Hymns 1083]

1. Calling on the name of the Lord is the secret to our salvation from death. It is also the secret to our enjoyment of the Lord's riches.

2. As God's chosen and redeemed ones we may enjoy Christ's redemption and salvation and all His riches by means of this secret.

3. Lamentations 3:55-56 indicates that our calling on the Lord is our breathing. To be saved from the death of our physical body, we need to breathe constantly. To be saved from inward death, we also need to breathe constantly. To breathe Christ in as our breath, we need to call on Him.

4. Isaiah 12:3-4 indicates that our calling on the Lord is our drinking. To drink Christ as our living water we need to call on Him. Drinking is a vital function to maintain our life. Encourage the young people to drink often during the day.

6. If time allows, there are lots of examples of men who called on the Lord (beginning from the third generation of mankind) in footnote 211 in Acts 2.

6. If time allows, there are lots of examples of men who called on the Lord (beginning from the third generation of mankind) in footnote 21¹ in Acts 2.