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Chuck Swindoll Says That People Will Miss Eternity with Christ If They Make Salvation Too Difficult

Chuck Swindoll Says That People Will Miss Eternity with Christ If They Make Salvation Too Difficult

March 1, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

By Bob Wilkin

A reader told me about a January 7 Insight for Living broadcast in which Chuck Swindoll talks about the time when Moses lifted up the bronze serpent, and those who looked on it were healed of the plague (Numbers 21). I just listened to the section in question, and it is fantastic. You can hear that message here by clicking on Part 3 (“Hope Beyond Snakebite”).1 I especially suggest you listen from 5:30 to 12:00. In that six and a half minutes, Swindoll clearly and concisely presents the promise of everlasting life by faith alone.

After saying at the 6:21 mark that those who looked lived, he states, “There was no issue made of Lordship looking. Some of you are saying, ‘What?’ Others of you got it. There was no, You need to be spiritually sincere when you look. Or, You need to look for the next three hours so we know that you really have determined that you are really going to look. Just look! Just look! ‘Cause all the other stuff is too subjective.”

Swindoll then takes the audience to John 3:14-15 in which Jesus cites the uplifted serpent while evangelizing Nicodemus. Swindoll says that Jesus told Nicodemus, “All you have to do is take the gift. Believe” (8:40). Swindoll said that Nic responded, “Believe? That’s all?” (8:50).

When Swindoll gets to John 3:15, he says, “‘…so that whoever believes.’ Look at it! Whoever believes will have eternal life. Not believes and hopes to give up his sins. Not believes and desires to be sincere. Not believes and proves that he is honest and just in his motives. Not believes because he has cleaned up his life and finally deserves to believe. He looks…In John 3 the message is Don’t make it difficult. Don’t make it difficult. It’s a gift. Some of you are still outside of Christ because you have made it difficult…Stop doing that! Take it! Take it!…This is the way you get in…Look! You’ll live!” (9:30-10:56).

He continues, “A lot of people want to buy Him (Christ). They want to earn Him, because, you know, there is no free lunch. I know one. It
wasn’t free to Him. It cost Him His life, but He’s given it to you. Why in the world don’t you take it? How many people will step into eternity without Christ, spend hell there for the rest of their lives, realizing then I made it difficult. I didn’t take Him at His word that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. I love it!”(11:19-12:00).

I highly recommend this broadcast. Chuck Swindoll did a terrific job. Two of his seminary professors, Charles Ryrie and Zane Hodges,
would surely be very pleased to hear this. More importantly, the Lord Jesus Christ was and surely is well pleased by what Chuck Swindoll
said that day.

It is so encouraging to hear well known speakers proclaim the clear message of life. When it happens, we should take note and rejoice.

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Bob Wilkin is Executive Director of Grace Evangelical Society and the host of Grace in Focus Radio.

1 http://insight.org/broadcasts/player/?bid=3290

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Bob Wilkin (ThM, PhD, Dallas Theological Seminary) is the Founder and Executive Director of Grace Evangelical Society and co-host of Grace in Focus Radio. He lives in Highland Village, TX with his wife, Sharon. His latest books are Faith Alone in One Hundred Verses and Turn and Live: The Power of Repentance.

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