Rich Salvation
And now, are you, reader, yourself saved? Do you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ?
Do you know this marvelous Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who, for your sakes became poor that you might be rich?
If you are not a Christian, not yet saved, still a stranger to that Grace, what hinders you from accepting Him now? Let me tell you that God "wants" you, and that God more than "wants" you, He loved you. It was for you He gave His beloved Son; for you He forsook Him on the cross. Could He do anything more than that?
And now the good news is that the Lord Jesus Christ has accomplished all for you and God invites you to "come." He tells you that all is ready; He wants to welcome you home. God wants you to come out of all your poverty and your want, out of your sin and guilt, shame and confusion into the Riches of His own Son.
Can you, will you, doubt this? I am persuaded you cannot. It is so clear, so simple. Do not doubt that God does actually want the lowest and the vilest in order that He may give them the Riches of Himself.
Do you ask the conditions? There are none. God does not ask you to do anything, for He has done it all. All He asks is that you come just as you are, as a poor sinner and that you accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior by trusting Him, by casting yourself upon Him.
Are you willing to do it now?
Just as lam, without one plea
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And Thou bidst me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come!
Just as I am, and waiting not
To rid my soul of one dark blot,
To Thee, whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come!
Just as I am, though tossed about
With many a conflict, many a doubt,
Fightings within, and foes without,
O Lamb of God, I come!
Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind;
Sight, riches, healing of the mind,
Yea, all I need in Thee to find,
O Lamb of God, I come!
Just as I am, Thou wilt receive,
Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve;
Because Thy promise I believe,
O Lamb of God, I come!
Just as l am, Thy love unknown,
Has broken every barrier down;
Now to be Thine, yea, Thine alone,
O Lamb of God, I come!
Charlotte Elliot, BHB
Will you accept God's riches?
The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life." All God asks is that you accept the Riches, which the Son of His love purchased for guilty sinners on the cross.
Is this too good to be true, as some always say? If you say this and add a single thing to it, trying to do your own share by good works, even works of repentance, then you shut yourself out from God's Grace. Believe it. Christ died for the ungodly; He died for you.
Nothing else will make you safe for eternity. God's salvation makes you safe! And should you reject God's offer of free salvation; what then?
It is almost impossible for the writer of these words to believe that anyone would reject such an offer, such riches, such love. And yet it is sadly true; thousands turn their back upon Him, Who died for them.
God grant that not one who reads these lines will reject the Lord Jesus Christ.
Reader, if you should reject Christ and go on in unbelief, in self-righteous religiousness, what then? You live on in the poverty, misery, discontent, unrest of the natural man. You could have eternal rest, peace, joy, happiness and contentment in the Lord Jesus.
You chose the unbelief and discontent but is that all? What about eternity? All pass into eternity having rejected that which God did for them. Deliberately some say, No to God and instead of the eternal Riches, they choose eternal poverty, eternal wrath and eternal shame. They are lost, no salvation; they never know what it is to be "safe," eternally secure!
It is surely not necessary to enlarge upon these solemn facts of an eternity of misery. Such it must be for everyone who dies rejecting God's offer of salvation. God's righteousness demands it.
Once more we repeat the text: "For ye know the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor that by His poverty we might be rich." 2 Cor. 8:9
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."John 3:16
A. C. Gaebelein
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