as He has been in every human gen eration. He has a thousand ways to get at us, all with tender gracious love. You cannot get away from Je sus Christ. A man starts the day without God but as he reads his morning paper he comes across a quotation from the Bible. On his way to work he drives past a church. Someone in his office tells happily of what’s happening in his Sunday school class. Then at lunch time he sees across the restaurant a little old lady, someone dear to himself and he remembers that this woman prays before she eats. Perhaps that afternoon he’s excused from work to go to a funeral or that evening to a wedding where prayer is offered. You cannot get away from Christ’s influence. The Son of man is come to seek and to save. Christ came to do this one thing. He came to save His peo ple from their sinful fallen estate. I care not who you may be. Unless you know Jesus Christ as your own personal Saviour, you, according to the Bible, are considered by God to be spiritually lost. I’m not talking about religion but a Person. Chris tianity is wrapped up in Christ. One doesn’t become a Christian simply by taking the sacraments, commun ion, by being baptized, or by becom ing a member of a church. You can only become a Christian by accepts ing Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour. This is the reason He came into the world. He came to save men and women so that they might have everlasting life. You, too, can re ceive Christ joyfully as you know the blessing of forgiveness. C hapter T hree J esus C hrist is able to meet all conditions He may face. He is the all-sufficient Son of God. Look at John 6:67 and 68, “Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon answered him,
Lord, to whom shall we go? thou has the words of eternal life.” Many who had been following Christ left His company. Now He asks the twelve whether they too were about to depart. Peter, as usual the first to speak, said, “Lord, to whom shall we go?” In this modem era, many fearing that Christianity is not in tellectually tenable, walk no more with Jesus Christ. They’ve looked vainly somewhere else for the fulfill ment of their hearts’ desires. The Christian faith can stand any criti cism hurled against it. Some people follow humanism as an alternative to Christ. This is the belief that man is sufficient in him self. Do you think man can lift him self up by his own bootstraps, that if there’s such a thing as sin, he can get over it alone without the help of the Saviour? Even theology at times has been tainted with such evil lies. Christ is still touching the lives of men and women. What a sorry mas ter man can be when left to his own devices! What folly it is to put our faith in others no matter how good or wonderful they may see mto be! Human misery has reached the depths. So much of mankind knows poverty, illness and all manner of despair. We find ourselves with tre mendous powers of communication but with no healing word to speak. We have tremendous systems of transportation but nothing to trans port that will make life whole again. We have so little power where we need it most, namely, with the spirit. Obviously we need a quality of life that’s different from what man’s been able to give us. Man’s tragic inadequacy in our kind of a world has shown the need of God’s redeem ing grace. Christ alone has all the answers. He can do for man what man can never do for himself. In many places today the emphasis has swung back to Biblical theology, to discovering the meaning of God’s Word for our age. 16
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