The story is told of a woman who said to the evangelist D.L. Moody after he preached on the thief on the cross, “Do you mean I have to be saved like that poor crook?” “No, you can go on to hell if you want to,” Moody replied. “But if you are going to be saved at all, you come like this fellow came.” The real people of God are those who have no confidence in the flesh or anything they’ve done, but instead are trusting totally and completely in Jesus and what he has done—those are the real people of God. That’s the way of salvation.
