July 31

PART II.—John 10:7.

WE have seen that Jesus is the door to the divine favour and family, to the privileges of the

Church on earth, and to the glories of the Church in heaven. Now, as the way of access, Jesus is a constantly open door. He became the door from the instant the first promise was announced, and he has been the open door from that period to the present time. The way to God has not been closed for a single moment. During the thousands of years that have rolled onwards in their changing course, he has remained fixed in his mediatorial office, and has changed not. How blessed is the consideration that, whether by day or night, the seeking sinner can never find this door of hope closed against him. Then he is also a door for all. None have been excluded from God's compassionate regards, for he hath loved the world, and Jesus is the propitiation for the sins of the whole world, and the Gospel freely invites all, without respect to country, age, or character, to come unto God by him. There never was, nor is, nor ever will be, any other exclusion than that of the sinner's impenitency and unbelief. We remark, finally, that Jesus is the only door. There is but one Mediator between God and us. There is but one name given, one Saviour found, one sacrifice offered, one Gospel preached—that name and Saviour is Jesus—that sacrifice, the blood of his cross—and that Gospel, the Gospel of Christ. There is but one door for the profligate and the moral, the profane and the professor, the publican and the pharisee. There is but one door for the rich and the poor, the learned and the illiterate, the aged and the young, the monarch and the slave. In short, there is but this door for the whole of our guilty world. He is the door, and whosoever refuseth or neglecteth him, must be excluded from heaven, but whosoever entereth in by him, shall obtain eternal life.