p. 4 | POWER TO SAVE by W. S. Sadler

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Jul 18, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 29.

POWER TO SAVE.

By W. S. Sadler

[W. S. Sadler, in Life Boat.]

MEN sometimes, by the power of their own resolution, coupled with favorable circumstances and surroundings, are able to temporarily reform. They are free for a season. But the blessedness of salvation's freedom is that it is not for a season, nor yet for time, but for eternity. Jesus is able to save to the uttermost. He is willing to break asunder the bands of habit that bind the sinner. Those who "sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron. . . .

"Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder." Ps. 107:10-14.

The power that can deliver from the slavery of habit to-day, thank God, is also the power that can keep you from the evils of to-morrow, for this is the promise that God has made to the one who puts his trust in Jesus: "Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy." Jude 24.

We can not of ourselves give up our evil habits, but God is able, if we are only willing, to take them away from us: "For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." 2 Cor. 8:12.