s when we die. Ask the
question intelligently, heart,--"What must I do to be saved?" Then you
will realize that you must do something.

This question implies, in the first place, that the conditions of
salvation are not optional, that it is not up to you and it is not up
to me to decide just what we will do in order to be saved. You can
accept salvation or you can refuse it. You can meet the conditions or
you can refuse to meet them. But one thing you cannot do. You cannot
decide upon the terms upon which you will surrender. If you are saved
at all you must surrender unconditionally.

So the question is, "What _must_ I do to be saved?" It is not, What is
the expedient thing or what is the respectable thing or what is the
popular thing to do in order to find salvation? The conditions are not
of your choosing and they are not of mine. God has made them and you
and I dare not change them. Therefore, if you are ever saved there is
not something simply that you ought to do, but there is something that
you absolutely must do.

Last of all, this question implies that salvation is an individual
matter. "What must _I_ do?" It is not a question of what must God do.
He has made full provision for the salvation of the whole world. It is
not what must the Church do. It is not what must the preacher do. It
is not what must this man that is beside me and this man that is behind
me or in front of me do. The question comes to my own heart--"What
must _I_ do?"

"What must I do to be saved?" You must do something, but there are
many things that we are doing that will not save us. If you expect to
be saved, in the first place, do not depend on your own goodness. "All
your righteousnesses are but as filthy rags." Do not count on your own
decency. No man was ever saved that way. I challenge you to find one
single one. I was holding a meeting some years ago and I met a young
fellow who told me he was good enough without Jesus Christ. Of course
he was not saved. A man who says that virtually tells Christ that He
has misunderstood his case altogether and that Calvary was a wasted
tragedy so far as he himself is personally concerned.

Neither will you be saved trusting in the other man's badness. I know
what some of you are saying to yourselves as I preach. You are telling
yourselves one of the oldest lies that was ever told. You are saying,
"I would be a Christian but there are so many hypocrites in the
Church