Our Bible Reading

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 26, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 46.

Our Bible Reading

Life Only in Christ

1. What is man by nature?

A sinner. “For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God.” Rom. 3:23.

2. Man being a sinner, to what is he doomed?

“Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned.” Rom. 5:12. “For the wages of sin is death.” Rom. 6:23.

3. Then can man find hope in himself or his fellows?

“None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him.” Ps. 49:7.

4. But does not life come to men when they die?

“His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.” Ps. 146:4.

5. In whom, then, is our only hope of life?

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” John 3:16.

6. How emphatic is this made in another scripture?

“He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.” John 3:36.

7. In what, then, may the believer rejoice?

“And the witness is this, that God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life. These things have I written unto you, THAT YE MAY KNOW THAT YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, even unto YOU THAT BELIEVE on the name of the Son of God.” 1 John 5:11-13.