me.” This is the only way anyone can meet God in peace. Sit down and con sider your latter end; think it through. How can you ignore God in your life and then expect Him to deal with you still in your sin? Do you think you can live as you please, transported from Delilah’s lap into Abraham’s bosom? Do you think that will work? Of course not! Consider the end of life. We do that with life insurance. We prepare our automobiles for a journey if we are going away. How foolish to neglect our own souls. The wise man foresees evil and hides himself in the Lord. It is because God loves us that He tells us to consider the end. “Be not wise in your own conceits.” “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the ends thereof are the ways of death.” Put your faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Then, for you, the ques tion of eternity will be settled forever. GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD And have we gone? Are we unruffled Knowing that the dawn in heathen lands means but another day begun? Another day without the blessed Son of righteousness and peace. Another day when souls who have for ever lost the way. Sink deeper in the dark morass of sin, hopeless and lost. At last to enter into an eternal night? Oh, God of Love, In tender pity from Thy throne above, beholding them and willing That not one should ever perish, Thou dids't send Thy Son who Bought them with His blood. But to us Thou dids't entrust The glorious and wondrous news. Into our weak hands dids't place The torch to lighten heathen lands. Strengthen our arms, dear Lord, To hold it high. Oh, ransomed of the Lord, If you and I fail in this thing, "Their blood," I hear Him say, "W ill I require of you at that day. "Go ye into all the world." " Is it a task to do for Me this one last thing," I ask?
T h e r e are m a n y profitable questions asked in the Bible which we would certainly do well to answer. We read in Luke 10:25 and 26, “And behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” “And ’ Jesus said unto him, what is written in the law? how readest thou?” While this attorney knew some things, he rightly realized he did not have eternal life. Have you ever come to that conclu sion? It is a wonderful discovery to make. Joining the church doesn’t give eternal life to you. Being baptized doesn’t give eternal life to you. Build ing up a fine, wonderful character doesn’t give eternal life to you. These things don’t make you a Christian. Eternal life is a gift from God. That is what the Bible means when it says that the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23). Can any man change a horse into a cow, or a dog into a cat? No, you and I cannot change life. It is true that we can change actions. For instance, I have seen a chimpanzee smoke a cig arette. A foolish man taught him how to do this. Others have been trained to put on roller skates or to ride on bicycles. But will these creatures do any of these things when you are not around? Will they do it naturally? No, each one realizes that if he doesn’t do it, he will be punished or that he will not receive any rewards. You can make a monkey act like a man but he cannot be made into a man. You and I have no power whatsoever over life. There are many things that we can do, but basically we do not have the life that makes us love the things of God. I know people who go in for re ligious things because they think they should. But I am talking about loving 5
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