Christ died for our sins. He died, “ the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God” (I Pet. 3 :18). Every unbeliever, in order to be saved, must take his place alongside the Lord Jesus Christ at Calvary, must acknowledge that it was for his sin that the Redeemer died, and must accept the salva tion that Christ’s death provides. Only through a definite acceptance of Him as one’s own personal Saviour is the way opened to salvation and to Heaven. In Sydney, Australia, there is one o f the most beautiful harbors in the world. It has but one en trance. The only channel lies wide and deep between two high promontories known as the North Head and the South Head. A short distance from the South Head there is a depression in the coastline called “ The Gap.” This gap became known as “ the graveyard of ships,” so often was it mistaken for the entrance to the harbor. Many years ago, a vessel called The Dunbar, with hundreds of people on board, drew near the harbor after dark. The captain saw “ The Gap” and thought it was the entrance to the harbor. Before he discovered his mistake, he heard the roar o f the breakers against the rocks. All of the hundreds o f passengers perished, with the excep tion of one man who was thrown up onto a ledge on the high rocks. The captain had been perfectly sincere. But he was mistaken, and he was lost. There is just one channel into salvation and everlasting bliss. That way is Christ. My friend, you cannot afford to make a mistake in regard to your eternal destiny. You can be sure of Heaven. The dominant note o f the Word of God is trium phant certainty. Job said, “ For I know that my redeemer liveth” (John 19:25). The Lord Jesus said, “Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37). Hear Him again declare, “ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me hath [not will have] everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life” (John 5:24). Take again, the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth verses of the thirteenth chapter of Acts: “ Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man [Christ Jesus] is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.” These verses tell me that when I commit my guilty soul into the safe-keeping of the Lord Jesus Christ, there and then I am justified from all things. My beloved reader, if you have not accepted Christ as your personal Saviour, let me urge you to trust Him n ow , to forgive you all your sins. The moment you do so, you possess everlasting life, and Heaven with all its joys and glories is yours forever. Do it today. Do it n o w ! HD THE KING'S BUSINESS
How Can One Go To Heaven?
Surely what God has recorded in His Word re garding the endless delights of the glory land should create within every true and wise heart a desire to go to that happy place. But the question is, how? The Book that describes the city also shows the way. There is but one way, and it is open to all. In John 14:6 we read: “ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Christ is the Way. He is not merely the way- shower; He is th e W a y . Sin closed the gates of glory against every rebellious son o f Adam. But through His death on the cross, Christ opened the way for every poor, defiled sinner to enter, if he will, into the presence of a holy God—provided that one comes through “ the blood-sprinkled way.” The atoning blood of Christ is never forgotten in Heaven. In Revelation 7:14, 15, John describes a great multitude which he saw before the throne of God. When he asked who these individuals were, he was told: “These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. There fore are they before the throne o f God, and serve him day and night in his temple.” The word therefore makes it clear that the blood of Christ alone gave them right to stand before the throne o f God.
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