p. 16 | Which Will You Have?

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 9, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 15.

Which Will You Have?

—Jesus said, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy; I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” In the forepart of the verse is described the work of Satan and his agents, who strengthen “the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life.” Eze. 13:22. Thus has Satan done. He has deceived men from the beginning into believing that there was life for man in man, apart from obedience to God and faith in Jesus Christ. Out of this falsehood have grown demon worship, idolatry, adoration of saints, worship of the Virgin Mary, Modern Spiritualism, Universalism, eternal torment, and every other great false system of religion. In Jesus Christ alone, in the righteousness which comes by him alone, is found life, eternal life. Which will you have,—the life (which is not life) promised by Satan, or the eternal life, which Christ gives?