Watch Focus July 17th ‘So Great a Salvation!’

This week from the Watch we focus on Hebrews 2:1-4, “Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?”

We pray for an outpouring of the Spirit of God bringing a great revival of salvation through the gospel of Jesus Christ, in the pulpit and on the street, according to scripture and without compromise.

We pray for deliverance from every drift and snare of the world, the flesh, and the devil!

We pray for a fresh surge of the gospel of salvation with God bearing witness with signs, wonders, miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit.

We pray for a renewed commitment to the Lord in His church and in the nation.

We pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ Jesus fill His church in America.

We pray for a Great Awakening to the ‘pearl of great price’ from Matthew 13:45-46, “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.”

Acts 4:12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

Romans 10:10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

2 Corinthians 6:2 For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,

Jude 1:3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Founding Fathers confess Salvation in Christ:

Samuel Adams, Governor of Massachusetts, Signer of the Declaration, in his last will: “I recommend my soul to that Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.”

Charles Carroll, U.S. Senator, Signer of the Declaration: “On the mercy of my Redeemer I rely for salvation and on His merits; not on the works I have done in obedience to His precepts.”

Benjamin Rush, Physician, Signer of the Declaration of Independence: “My only hope of salvation is in the infinite, transcendent love of God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the cross. Nothing but His blood will wash away my sins. I rely exclusively upon it.”

Alexander Hamilton, Treasury Secretary, his dying words: “I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, in his will: “Unto Him who is the author and giver of all good, I render sincere and humble thanks for His manifold and unmerited blessings, and especially for our redemption and salvation by His beloved Son.”

John Witherspoon, President of Princeton: “I entreat you in the most earnest manner to believe in Jesus Christ, for there is no salvation in any other.”

Roger Sherman, Judge, Congressman and Senator: “God commands all men everywhere to repent. He also commands them to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and has assured us that all who do repent and believe shall be saved.”

John Dickinson, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution): “Rendering thanks to my Creator for my existence and station among His works… to Him I resign myself, humbly confiding in His goodness and in His mercy through Jesus Christ for the events of eternity.” (From his will)

Patrick Henry, Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution, from his last will and testament: “This is all the inheritance I can give to my dear family. The religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed.” Attribution: “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

George Mason, Father of the Bill of Rights, Delegate to the Constitutional Convention, from his last will and testament: “I give and bequeath my soul to Almighty God that gave it me, hoping that through the meritorious death and passion of our Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ to receive absolution and remission for all my sins.”

Gabriel Duvall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, delegate to Constitutional Convention: “I resign my soul into the hands of the Almighty who gave it in humble hopes of his mercy through our Savior Jesus Christ.”

Robert Treat Paine, Signer of the Declaration of Independence: “I am constrained to express my adoration of… the Author of my existence… [for] His forgiving mercy revealed to the world through Jesus Christ, through whom I hope for never ending happiness in a future state.”

John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. President, son of John Adams; in a July 4, 1837, oration): “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? … Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?”

John Adams, 2nd President of the United States: “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity… I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”

Continental Congress Thanksgiving Proclamation, November 1, 1777:  authored by Samuel Adams, signer of the Declaration): calls the people to “penitent confession of their manifold sins, whereby they had forfeited every favor, and their humble & earnest supplication, that it may please God through the merits of Jesus Christ mercifully to forgive and blot them out of remembrance,” while seeking God’s blessing on the new nation’s councils, arms, liberty, and the spread of the gospel.

Continental Congress Proclamation, October 20, 1779: thanking God “above all, that he hath diffused the glorious light of the gospel, whereby, through the merits of our gracious Redeemer, we may become the heirs of his eternal glory,” and recommending a day of thanksgiving and prayer for the United States, including the spread of Christian knowledge.

Repent (Mark 1:15; Luke 24:47; Acts 2:38)

Believe (Acts 20:20–21)

Confess (Rom. 10:8–10; Heb. 4:14; 3:1; 10:21, 23)

Be baptized (Mark 16:16)

Give thanks (Jonah 2:9)

Be led by the Holy Spirit (Rom. 8:14)