THE GLAD TIDINGS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 24, 1904

THE GLAD TIDINGS.

THE Gospel of Jesus Christ does not come to sinful men to tell them that they need no salvation. It does not come to them to tell them that they have eternal life already, and all that they need to do is to recognize the fact. It is a perverted Gospel which teaches such things.

Man is lost, sold under sin,—a slave in sin's dominion, doomed to certain death. The Gospel of God does not hide this fact. Nay, more, it distinctly and emphatically affirms it. It tells man that he is hopelessly sick with sin; that he has no power within himself to cure his disease, or break sin's power. It holds the mirror of God's law before the sinner that he may see his utterly wretched and hopelessly lost condition.

But it does not leave the man there. The mighty Physician, who has so truly diagnosed the case, is the potent healer. He who has revealed the sin can cleanse it by a word. He who has told us that only death awaits our sinful condition, offers us life. He who has disclosed what we are so slow to learn, that we have no power, offers us the creative power of God, "the power of an endless life."

O soul in the prison of sin, this salvation in Christ Jesus is for you! Cleansing from sin, healing of soul, liberty in Him, power over sin, everlasting life, are all brought to you in the everlasting Gospel; why not believe the Glad Tidings?