Thousands of people are quite willing to be saved by Christ, but when it comes to the
very first step, namely, that Jesus must be accepted as ruler, lawgiver, master, king,
and Lord, then they start back and reject eternal life. 1375.535
You must either let him reign over you, or else you will have to lie beneath his feet. 2940.297
I cannot conceive it possible for anyone truly to receive Christ as Saviour and yet not
to receive him as Lord. One of the first instincts of a redeemed soul is to fall at the
feet of the Saviour, and gratefully and adoringly to cry, “Blessed Master, bought with
thy precious blood, I own that I am thine,—thine only, thine wholly, thine for ever.
Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” 3229.617
It is not possible for us to accept Christ as our Saviour unless he also becomes our
King, for a very large part of salvation consists in our being saved from sin’s
domination over us, and the only way in which we can be delivered from the mastery
of Satan is by becoming subject to the mastery of Christ. 3229.617
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