p. 16 | Let Us Therefore Come Boldly

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 7, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 39.

Let Us Therefore Come Boldly

Let Us Therefore Come Boldly.—Where? to the priest? to the bishop? to the pastor?—Nay, but to the Throne of Grace. And what for? to be told to go to the priest or the "church" for absolution?—Nay, but "that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." Heb. 4: 16. Let us come boldly to the Throne of Grace where sits the Lord Jesus Christ on the right hand of the Father, a merciful and faithful high priest on our behalf. The business of pastor or priest is to introduce, lead, point, the sinner to Christ; not to tell Christ that that sinner deserves mercy because he has been thus brought, or for any other reason, the Lord knows all that; but to tell the sinner that all mercy and life and blessing and healing is found in Jesus Christ.