p. 6 | WILL YOU NOT COME? by Joel C. Rogers

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 2, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 34.

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WILL YOU NOT COME?

By Joel C. Rogers

BY JOEL C. ROGERS.

FRIEND, your heavenly Father gave you life (Acts 17:28); but you have forfeited that life (Rom. 3:23; 6:23).

Without the Saviour you must surely die (Acts 4:12); but Jesus wants you to live (John 10:10).

God has no pleasure in your death (Eze. 33:11); but he greatly desires to save you (1 Tim. 2:3, 4).

Your Father is not even willing for you to perish (2 Peter 3:9); therefore he has made to you the greatest gift of all the universe (John 3:16), because he is full of mercy and goodness (Ex. 34:6), and his very being is love (1 John 4:16).

All this goodness leads me to my Father (Rom. 2:4); he wants you to come (Isa. 1:18; Matt. 11:28; Rev. 22:17). There is only one way (John 14:6); but it is easy and joyful, though narrow (Matt. 11:30; 7:14; Rom. 14:17).

This way leads to eternal life (John 10:28); every other way leads to eternal death (Prov. 14:12). The ways of the world do not satisfy (Eccl. 1:14); the Lord's way gives complete satisfaction (Acts 2:28). At the end of this way is a home (John 14:2, 3); will you spend eternity with me in that home?

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