Conditions of Being Saved

So I just read a sermon on www.sermonindex.net by Charles Finney called Conditions of Being Saved. This man was one of the greatest believers that humanity has ever produced. The sermon is full of conviction, and I fail to see how even one person who attended his meetings did not immediately give their life to Christ. Charles Finney was a man who insisted you respond to the message of the Gospel. There was no 'maybe', only a 'yes' or a 'no'. I encourage you all to click on the sermon title and read it; it's lengthy, but worthy. T'is good to read about the unperfect people whom God used to turn the world upside down. It gets me fired up; it makes me want to do something outside the prescribed boundries the 'church' has set up.

Charles Finney (1792-1875)

Lack of care for the lost. Perhaps you have not cared enough for them to attempt to learn their condition; perhaps not even to take a missionary magazine. Look at this, and see how much you really care for the lost, and write down honestly the real amount of your feelings for them, and your desire for their salvation. Measure your desire for their salvation by the self-denial you practice, in giving of your substance to send them the Gospel. Do you deny yourself even the hurtful and unnecessary desires of life, such as tea, coffee, and tobacco? Do you cut back on your style of living, and hesitate not to deny yourself any inconvenience to save them? Do you daily pray for them in private? Are you putting money aside to put into the treasury of the Lord when you go up to pray? If you are not doing these things, and if your soul is not agonized for the poor benighted heathen, why are you such a hypocrite to pretend to be a Christian? Why, saying you are a Christian is an insult to Jesus Christ!

-Finney