SINNER, you who know that you are a sinner, who feel the need of salvation, who long to be free from the bondage of sin, do you wish to be saved from the sins of the past, from the sinning of the present, from the desire to sin? Here is God's answer: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Only believe. "All things are possible to him that believeth." But what does it mean to believe on Jesus Christ?—It means (1) that you will accept His way instead of your way. His Word says of mankind: "They are all gone out of the way; they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one." "The way of peace have they not known." Christ is "the way." John 14: 6. To believe in Christ and accept His way, you will believe and accept what He says concerning your way. You will not attempt to excuse your way. You will not excuse yourself by the wrong-doing (real or imagined) of some one else. He says, "You are a sinner;" if you believe Him, you will respond, "It is true, Lord." He declares, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked;" and if you believe Him, you will again respond, "It is true, Lord, in me." He declares that with such a heart you can not do good deeds, even as a corrupt tree can not bring forth good fruit. Matt. 7:17; 12:33-35; Mark 7:14-23. And, again, if you believe Him, you will reply, "Amen; it is true, Lord." But, on the other hand, He says in the same Word:— "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." "Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord; tho your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; tho they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land." "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them." In the above is expressed the way of God in Christ Jesus; and with this His whole Word and life are in harmony. He says this to you. If you believe Him, you will respond from the depths of your heart: "Amen, Lord. I yield to do all that is required. I give up all the sin; I yield the hard heart; I accept the cleansing and the blessed Spirit. It is true, O Lord, in me!" And thus it is that the apostle declares of genuine belief,—"With the heart man believeth unto righteousness." A belief which falls short of this avails nothing. Believe thus, follow mortal, and you will find that "His ways are ways of pleasantness, and all His paths are peace." 2. If you "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ," you will accept Him and His Word as the truth; for He declares, "I am the Way and the Truth." He says to the Father, "Thy Word is truth." By His Spirit that Word is called "the Scriptures of truth," and of His law it is said, "Thy law is the truth." It is, also, "the Word of the truth of the Gospel." If you believe Jesus Christ, you will accept the Word. You will believe all that is contrary to that Word to be error. And, again, however hoary tradition may endeavor to gloss or pervert its teaching, however infidelity may deny it, however "higher criticism" may question, you will say: "Amen; let God be found true; but every man a liar;" "Thy Word is true from the beginning; and every one of Thy righteous judgments endureth forever." Let it be truth to me forever. Henceforth, "Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." 3. If you believe, dear soul, on the Lord Jesus Christ, you will accept Him as your life; for He says, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life." He tells us that we are sinners, "by nature" "children of wrath," doomed to die; for "the wages of sin is death;" "the soul that sinneth, it shall die." We have no reason to believe that this does not mean the soul; for so it says, "The man sins; the man dies; and, apart from Christ, when the man dies he would be forever dead." But Christ died to redeem from death and the grave. He died and rose again. "But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen." And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished." This is a part of the apostle's inspired argument by which he demonstrates the absolute necessity of the resurrection, of which that of the righteous dead will take place at the second coming of Jesus Christ, the Life-giver. The old satanic lie, "Thou shalt not surely die," may be repeated in myriad forms; it may be associated with the sacred memories of the loved and gone; it may be embellished with all the flowers of poetry, and perfumed with all the fragrance of past memories; men may seek to uphold it by sophistry, by dogma, by stupendous edifices of false doctrines which involve almost the entire race of men in their serpentine folds; notwithstanding, he who intelligently and truly believes on the Lord Jesus Christ, will turn from the mighty host and accept the simple word of truth: "The soul that sinneth it shall die;" "the dead know not anything;" "his breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish;" and by living faith he will look beyond the gloom of the grave to the second coming of the Life-giver, who has declared: "I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death; O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction." And to all this the true believer will respond: "Amen; Lord, live Thy life in me now, that I may be obedient to all God's commandments, even as Thou wert. Make me to be righteous with Thy righteousness, that I may partake of Thy life even now, and when Thou comest, live with Thee forevermore, in a universe free from sin." O what a Saviour—"the Way, the Truth, and the Life"! O soul, will you not believe in Him?