Going to Jesus

Gospel Tracts

 Select a tract to read:

• Tracts 1-50

  1. How I Received the Holy Ghost 2. Jesus Is Coming Again 3. You Must Be Born Again 4. Stir Up the Gift of God 5. The World’s Most Dreaded Hour 6. What is Salvation? 7. Stand Still in Jordan 9. Grieved Hearts 10. The Second Death 11. The Father and the Son 12. Suffering and the Saints 13. Cancer Conquered 14. The Church? 15. How Shall They Preach, Except They Be Sent? 16. Have You Received the Holy Ghost Since You Believed? 17. Patience 18. Alone With God 19. Tithes and Offerings 20. Prayer 21. The True Sabbath 22. The Besetting Sin 23. The Cry of the Righteous 24. What Will the Harvest Be? 25. Marriage and Divorce 26. Taking the Name of the Lord 27. The Keys of the Kingdom 28. Works 29. Politics and Believers 30. Unequally Yoked in Marriage 31. Coming Out of Babylon 32. The Forgiven Woman 33. The New Earth 34. The Sin of Silence 35. Freedom 36. Gods of the Gentiles 37. Why Some Are Not Healed 38. The Seven Pillars 39. Life, More Abundantly 40. Fear 41. The Comforter’s Testimony 42. This is My Friend 43. Conversion 44. The Time Is Drawing Near? 45. Songs in the Night 46. The Master’s Net 47. Trials are Opportunities 48. Receiving the Messenger 49. Seven Messages to the Seven Pastors 50. Keep Yourself Pure

• Tracts 51-100

  51. The New Birth 52. John the Baptist and Jesus 53. Denying Jesus 54. Bruised Reeds 56. The Wise and the Foolish 57. Holiness 58. Is Jesus God? 59. Christ or Christianity 60. Have Faith In God 61. Worthy to Suffer 63. Four Kinds of Soil 64. Communion 65. The Fullness of Time 66. Baptism 68. No Room 69. Crucified With Christ 70. Homosexuality and the Bible 71. The Kingdom of God 72. The Gospel of Christ 74. Perseverance 75. The Resurrection 76. Salvation 77. Sanctification 78. New Commandments 79. The Sacrifice of Christ 81. The Sound of the Spirit 82. The Wrath of God 84. God’s Compass 85. Perfection 86. The Abomination of Desolation 87. Antichrist 88. The Way of Grace 90. Relationships 91. The Vineyard of God 93. Subdued 94. The Spirit of Christ 95. The Blood of Christ 96. Spirit of a Serpent, Spirit of a Dove 97. Gluttony 98. The Lost Lamb 99. Scripture Burners 100. Bleating and Lowing

 

The most puzzling development among believers in the 20th century is the confusion of conversion with salvation. Conversion is an experience we receive in this life, and salvation is an experience we receive after this life is over. Peter called salvation “the end of your faith” (1Pet. 1:9); conversion is the beginning of it. Salvation is the reward that faithful children of God will receive at the end of their journey, while conversion is the blessing that sinners receive when they repent of their sins and believe the gospel of Jesus. Some in this world have been converted, but no one here has yet received God’s salvation.

Salvation is glorification, and glorification means to receive the new, glorified body which is promised to faithful believers. Conversion, on the other hand, is sanctification, and sanctification means to be made holy by the holy Spirit of God. Because salvation is received at the end of our lives, every day we live, we draw nearer to it, and that is why Paul could write, “Our salvation is nearer now than it was when we believed.” When Jesus said, “He who endures to the end, the same shall be saved” (Mt. 10:22; 24:13), he was not saying, “He who endures to the end, the same shall be converted.” Rather, he was saying, “He who endures to the end, the same shall be glorified.”

Consider how Paul must have understood salvation when he wrote this to the saints in ancient Thessalonica: “Let us who are of the day be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God has not appointed us to wrath but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1Thess. 5:8–9). In these scriptures, Paul was not claiming that he and other believers already had salvation, was he? Salvation is the hope which converted people have, and only they. Unbelievers do not have this hope because having Christ in your heart is what gives you hope for the coming salvation (Col. 1:27).

Dear friends, if you have been converted, then you have hope of the salvation that Jesus will bring to us when he comes again, and if you are faithful and obedient to him here in this life, you will receive it.

What is Salvation?