WHATEVER our circumstances, whatever our experience, we all have this common need, that we should find salvation from sin; that we should know that power which gives us victory in time of temptation, which delivers us in time of fear, which enables us to conquer death, and which brings us safely into the eternal kingdom of God. In all our study of the gospel, we should never let any other truth overshadow this, because this is the essential thing in our experience. Any teaching of the gospel of Christ which fails to emphasize this power of God unto salvation from sin, is not emphasizing for us the gospel as it should, because whatever may be our views as to the fulfilment of prophecy, whatever may be our views as to certain doctrines or rites or ceremonies, if we fail by personal faith to lay hold upon the gospel of Christ to save us from sin, then rites, ceremonies, doctrines, creeds of any kind, the most cordial assent to the plainest teachings of the prophecies of God’s Word, will not save us from sin apart from personal faith. “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else.” This is the Lord’s constant invitation. This gospel of salvation from sin never changes in its essential features. The original provision for salvation was for personal faith in the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world; that is, God’s righteousness should be imputed to us through the gift of Jesus, his Son, as our Saviour; that is, his taking the flesh and revealing divine power in humanity brought unto us salvation; he made that union between the divine and the human that brings to humanity power for salvation from sin. To believe this, to lay hold upon this, to apply this experience for our experience, is to be saved from sin. But at various times in the development of the gospel truth in the earth there have been crises, as it were, when there was to be borne, with special clearness and with special application to the very time then present, such a message of the gospel of salvation from sin, such a teaching of the righteousness of God through personal faith in Christ, as would save from the special temptation upon the people at that time, would save from the special danger of the hour. Such times are readily recalled in past history. Such a time was the time of the flood. Such a time was the time in the experience of Nineveh when Jonah was sent with his message of present salvation, a salvation that must come to them within forty days. Such a time was the first advent, when John the Baptist preached this same gospel of salvation from sin with special reference to the fact that according to prophecy the time was fulfilled; the kingdom of God was at hand, and he was the forerunner to preach that gospel in such a way that the way of the Lord might be prepared; to present in such a way the truth concerning Jesus and his salvation, that when Jesus should be revealed in the flesh, he should be recognized as the Messiah, and the people should receive him. To-day we face the near advent of our Lord. According to the fulfilment of many prophecies, according to the plain teaching of God’s Word which5comes to us, we live to-day in the last generation, and we face, as the immediate imminent event, the second coming of our Lord in glory. There must be in this generation a teaching of the gospel of salvation from sin that shall save from sin in this generation; such a teaching of the gospel of salvation from sin as shall expose the false teaching of the gospel; as shall expose, in whatever form it may be presented to the people, that message which in many phrases has been taught and is being taught,—the gospel of salvation of man, instead of the gospel of the salvation of God. There is only one true gospel. It is the power of God, and it is the power of God so applied as to bring salvation from sin. It is not simply abstract power, not simply the recognition of that power working in other ways, but the laying hold upon Christ working within the individual as the power of God to deliver him from the power of sin. This is the true gospel. It brings to the believer that righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ. It saves the believer from sin. It prepares the believer for that greatest of all events, now so near at hand, the coming of Jesus for his people. This is the experience which we need.