Received by Faith

Throughout this story, we may see that the sinner may possess this salvation, taking it immediately from God without owing to any other. Adam took it from the lips of God and made it his own at once. It entered the house of Zaccheus, and came there simply and solely in company with Jesus. It is faith that gets it; faith is the individual act of the soul, the sinner's exercise of heart and conscience entirely with God alone. Old Simeon illustrates this. He took the child in his arms as God's salvation, without asking permission of its mother, for faith knows it to be God's gift to the sinner as a sinner. It knows that it is our necessities as sinners that constitute our fitness and our title for it and to it.
From the day of Acts 28, "the salvation of God" has come forth to this wide, wide world under divine commission. It has been sealed with the broadest seal—the clear and deep stamp of heaven or of God— has been put on it. No one speaks from God, under commission and authority from Him, who does not publish it. "The salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles.”