Jesus Saves

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 1, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 43.

BELIEVE it, tempted, sinful, sinning soul. You long to be free from the shackles, the gyves of sin. You long to burst the walls of sin's prison-house, and walk at liberty. You long to break the power of the devilish sentinel habits which keep watch and ward over you to recall and enchain you when you think you are free.

You can not save yourself. You have tried too many times, and failed in the trying. You have found true Holland's verse, > "We hope, we aspire, we resolve, we trust, > When the morning calls us to life and light, > But our hearts grow weary, and ere the night > Our lives are trailing the sordid dust."

Do not despair. God has laid help upon One who is "mighty to save." God gave His Son that you might live. He loves you, all unlovable as you are. He saw you when that Son was given, and revealed His infinite love in that giving, that such love might win your heart, and lead you to cast your utterly helpless, sinful soul upon Him.

That is all He asks. Your sins may be deep-dyed crimson, He will make them like clean washed wool; tho your iniquities be thrice dyed scarlet, He will wash them "white as snow."

Never mind how He does it. Never mind the divine chemical process by which the marvelous change takes place. You can not even understand your own heart. How could you understand the deep science of God? You do not know how earth and air and sun under God can be transmuted into trunk and stem and leaf and flower and fruit. How could you hope to understand the means by which God can take your wretched sinful soul and make it so that the white light of God can see no stain upon it? How could you comprehend the process by which your heart, that hated good, that loved and delighted in sin, could be so remade that sin would be repulsive in its fairest form, and good and right and truth would be loved?

You could understand none of these things, because you can not comprehend the infinite power of creation; for it is by creative energy that God changes the heart committed to Him. "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature," or as the margin of the Revised Version reads, "there is a new creation." The old things are passed away. The new has come from the hand of God. Believe it for yourself; grasp it by faith; count it yours forever.

The Lord Jesus is able to do for you today; just as able as when He spoke to the impotent man at the Pool of Bethesda, and gave him power; as when He spoke to the wretched leper, and cleansed him instantly; as when He cast the demons out of the fierce madman, and clothed him in his right mind; as when He spoke to the sheeted, decaying dead, and the dead came forth and lived. So, sinful, tempted soul, He would speak to you to-day. So He is doing it in His Word. Abjure the sin, make the promise, the power, yours by believing.

"Sing above the battle strife, Jesus saves, Jesus saves; By His death and endless life, Jesus saves, Jesus saves."