“Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?” Acts 2:37

I heard an elderly preacher say, “When sinners get under Holy Ghost conviction they’ll give their own invitation”. The above verse gives credence to what the old preacher said.

Some have made salvation as simple sounding as making a “decision”. I like what Dr Martyn Lloyd Jones says concerning the subject;

“A sinner does not “decide” for Christ; the sinner “flies” to Christ in utter helplessness and despair saying – Foul, I to the fountain fly, Wash me, Saviour, or I die. No man truly comes to Christ unless he flies to Him as his only refuge and hope, his only way of escape from the accusations of conscience and the condemnation of God’s holy law. Nothing else is satisfactory. If a man says that having thought about the matter and having considered all sides he has on the whole decided for Christ, and if he has done so without any emotion or feeling, I cannot regard him as a man who has been regenerated. The convicted sinner no more “decides” for Christ than the poor drowning man “decides” to take hold of that rope that is thrown to him and suddenly provides him with the only means of escape. The term is entirely inappropriate.”

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones,  Preachers and Preaching, Zondervan, 1971, p. 279-280.

That’s something to think about,

Shawn