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DO YOU KNOW HIM?

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 11, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 2.

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DO YOU KNOW HIM?

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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES is set for the purpose of lifting up Jesus Christ before the world. He is "the power of God and the wisdom of God" to save all who will come to Him. He is the Creator and Upholder of all—one with the Father. "It pleased the Father that in Him should all the fulness dwell," and in Him are all the children of faith made full. He declares, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life."
He is the Way, the path, the road, which leads to the everlasting, sinless, wantless, deathless, sinless kingdom of God. In His own life and experience He bridged the awful chasm between earth and heaven, made by sin. He is the ladder of Jacob’s vision, which reaches from the lowest depths of human degradation and wo to the throne of Infinite Peace, Purity, Love, and Happiness. He is the Way. He would have you accept His way for yours. Will you do it?
He is the Truth. His "Word is truth." His "law is the truth." Every word which He has spoken or His Spirit inspired is truth, and reaches back to the Eternal Throne. Satan has his counterfeits, almost resembling the original. He would blind men to the truth as it is in Jesus Christ by the glamor of a false science, by heathen philosophy, by the sophistry of high-sounding words, by the utterances of men with learnedly-long titles, by the decisions of great religious bodies and systems; but in all these utterances are only the strength and wisdom of the creature that dies. Every word of God is the word of the Creator. Received, retained, followed, it leads to the great, Central Throne; it purifies the heart; it establishes character; it makes man one with God. Jesus Christ longs that you shall believe and accept God’s truth as it is in Him, as He taught it and lived it. Will you not do it?
He is the Life. Apart from God man dies. "In Him we live, and move, and have our being." By sin man has forfeited his life. Sin came into the world, and death by sin. And "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Apart from God man was eternally lost, doomed to eternal extinction of being. But the great Father did not leave him here; "for God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." In Him is eternal life, because in Him is eternal righteousness. He became sin for us, and died in our behalf. He became righteousness for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. He came forth from the grave a conqueror over sin and death, because there was no sin in Him, because of His righteous character wrought out in the obedience of faith. And every one who receives the imputed and imparted righteousness of God will come forth from the grave or from mortality a conqueror when Christ comes. He is the Life. In His resurrection, and the righteousness for which that event stands, is our hope—is the hope of a dying world. Sinner, Christ would be your life. He would have you yield up to Him your sinful life and accept His righteous life, give up your sinful dying and accept His righteous living, in order that, eternally saved, you may dwell with Him forevermore. Will you accept it?
Will you not accept Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth, and the Life?