A Word in Season by N. W. VINCENT.

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 40.

A Word in Season.

By N. W. VINCENT.

God is love; he pities the sinner, and has provided a way by which he may obtain pardon and immortal life. And he now commands men everywhere to repent and believe this good news. Dear reader, have you heartily repented of your sins and come to Christ? Humbling yourself as a little child, confessing your sins with loathing for iniquity, with longing to lead a holy life, have you asked God for pardon and for the witness of the Holy Spirit? Relying only and implicitly on the righteousness and intercession of your blessed Saviour, have you continued to ask, believing God true to his word? In short, have you become a new creature in Christ Jesus? Do you know that he dwells in you by the blessed Holy Spirit, the Comforter, that he gives you? Would that with holy joy and gratitude you could truly answer, “Yes,” to these important questions.

God has shown his love and pity for you in permitting his well-beloved, his only begotten Son, to die in unspeakable agony as your sin-offering. Your Redeemer has shown his ardent wish to save you by bearing your sins in his own body on the cross, thus giving his own blood to be the propitiation for your transgressions. As John Bunyan wrote, “Come, and welcome, to Jesus Christ.”

The Father says: “As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way, and live; turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die?” Eze. 33:11; see also 2 Peter 3:9. But God’s dear Son, by whom he will judge the world in righteousness, has said: “He that believeth not shall be damned.” How sad to be lost at last in the lake of fire when all Heaven is now yearning to save you!

Christ says: “Ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” Most lovingly, faithfully he invites, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Will you to-day hear him? If you now foolishly and wickedly delay, whom can you blame if you are too late? Christ loves you; do you wish to grieve and insult him by longer neglect? Soon he will come to take to his marriage supper those that are ready. Then he that is filthy must be filthy still. Christ cannot lie by welcoming such within the city, or by saying to the procrastinating worker of iniquity, Well done. O, risk not the loss of the raptures and glories of eternal life a moment longer. Seek God with all your heart and he will be found of you; “for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”

N. W. VINCENT.

Casa, Arkansas.