The modern religionist will not let his friends know that he thinks they are going to Hell, even though he knows the Bible says they are. He tries to slip through the modern world without being detected. The liberal minister’s message is this, “If you don’t believe somewhat and repent a little bit, you are liable to go some place that I am afraid to pronounce.” His message is this: “Let Jesus come into your life.” This is an acceptable message to a Christ-rejecting, God-hating, Bible-denying reprobate. The modern apostate will talk much about “living right” or “doing good” to get your “prayers answered” so you can get healed or get your income up.
As long as you teach any System of salvation by good works, you can get along, you can be accepted. All people are self-righteous, that’s human nature. Human nature is me first, and you next. All people try to justify themselves when they do wrong. All religions have a set of works to get to heaven. Many religions disagree on what the works are to get saved, but they all believe in works, that’s human nature. They all believe a man is saved by doing good. If you just be a good fellow, and live a good life, you’ll make it. If you do the best you can, you’ll be all right.
The religious ministers try to dress up the message of the cross today, so it’s attractive, pretty, nice and sweet, respectable, decent, and by all means prosperous. They try to cover it up, they don’t want to offend anybody. Don’t want to upset anybody, they just tiptoe through the tithers, the preaching of the cross will affect their checkbook. The world’s Christianity is respectable today. Nobody is offended on Sunday morning, well-dressed people sitting on a pew listening to a rock band. Try to get around the reproach of Christ. Crucified, died a shameful death, death of a criminal. The old “RUGGED” cross is about blood, spit, tears, crown of thorns, nails, spear, mocking, and derision. Jesus bore your sins, and was made a curse for you. Jesus became a laughingstock and hung naked and died all alone. To be identified with someone who has suffered capital punishment is to suffer loss. Keeping company with criminals is not a respectable thing.
The cross is shunned, they dance around it. It doesn’t bring any glory to them, only Christ Jesus, the Lamb of God who was God manifest in the flesh. They avoid it. Religion wants a Christ, without the Cross. The Lamb that was slain deserves ALL THE GLORY. They are satisfied with a religious self-life. Most churches today are glorified self-help groups and community centers with a steeple on top. They don’t want to offend anyone with the cross.
What is the preaching of the cross? The preaching of the cross is the shame and scorn that a true servant and witness of the gospel receives when he believes and testifies to sinful man that he is so depraved, and so helpless, and so hopeless that he can only get to Heaven by the substitutionary death of someone else, and that his sacraments, traditions, scriptural arguments and alibis, church membership, “golden rule,” and ten commandments are absolutely worthless.
According to the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the best you can do, and the best you can live will land you flat on your back in Hell. Your good works are actually ‘sinful’ because you deny the shed blood of Jesus Christ to save you completely, and choose to trust in yourself. That message from the Scriptures is what causes trouble when someone witnesses to the fact. As long as a man doesn’t say that or imply that, he is safe. Here it is again, “Unless a man is saved by grace through faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ, he will go to Hell no matter how good he is.” This is the preaching of the cross. The religious sinner depending upon his good works, sacraments, church membership, and baptism to save him feels enlightened, happy, and content, because he has never been told where he is going without Christ’s righteousness – Hell itself. “Flee from the wrath to come” is not a pleasant message, but it is the Bible’s message.
The preaching of the Cross offends two groups of people: the religious (Jews) and the educated (Greeks). The Jews represent religious works, and the Greeks represent worldly wisdom and education.
Who is the Jew? Who does he represent? This is someone that has been brought up religiously and he is quite in the habit of saying prayers; he attends public worship regularly. He gives to his church or religion and is orthodox and devoted to his beliefs. He has no fellowship with drunkards and gamblers, very righteous and moral man in the community, a religious man. He hears about the Cross and wonders at it, but he can’t see his need for the Cross. He has no sense of his sin. He doesn’t feel his need for atoning blood, it is nothing to him. He doesn’t need mercy, or God’s righteousness, he is self-sufficient with his own self-righteousness. He has need of nothing.
When the Cross is preached, he stumbles, He thinks within himself, “If I accept the works of the cross, this is death to my reputation, position, and my good name, my goodness will have to go. Hmmmm. What will my church think? What will my priest or pastor think? What will my family think?” There is no self that dies so hard as religious self. The self-religious man commits spiritual suicide when he rejects the work of the Cross.
Who is the Greek? Who does he represent? The Cross of Christ is foolishness to him. These are those that give themselves to philosophy, education, and self-help. Manly and earthly wisdom despises the cross. No flesh will glory in God’s presence. Human culture and their accomplishments and achievements will never give Christ any glory. Man will always glory in man. The glory of human efforts wither when they come near the cross, therefore, they stay away, at a distance. They look and try to understand from afar, but they cannot understand without yielding to the blood of Christ. Publicans and harlots go in the kingdom of God before you.
It is Finished! What was it that was finished? His lifework and His atoning Sacrifice on our behalf. He had interposed between our souls and Divine Justice and He had stood in our place to obey and suffer on our behalf. He began this work early in life, even while He was a Child. He persevered in holy obedience 33 years. That obedience cost Him many a pang and groan. Now it is about to cost Him His life and, as He gives away His life to finish the work of obedience to the Father, and of redemption for us, He says, “It is finished.” It was a wonderful work, even to contemplate—only Infinite Love would have thought of devising such a plan! It was a wonderful work to carry on for so long—only boundless patience would have continued at it—and now that it requires the offering of Himself and the yielding up of His earthly life, only a Divine Savior, very God of very God, would or could have consummated it by the surrender of His breath! What a work it was! Yet it was finished while you and I have lots of little things lying about that we have never finished. We have begun to do something for Jesus that would bring Him a little honor and glory, but we have never finished it. We did mean to glorify Christ—have not some of you intended, oh, so much? Yet it has never come to anything. But Christ’s work, which cost Him heart and soul, body and spirit—cost Him everything—even His death on the Cross! He pushed through all that till it was accomplished and He could say, “It is finished.”
The preaching of the Cross lies in the Biblical doctrine and truth of the blood atonement. The blood shed by Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, is the only thing that will reconcile a sinner to God. The blood of Christ is the only thing that will satisfy the justice and wrath of God that a sinner deserves because of his wilfull sinning against a holy God. Sin is a direct attack against the holiness of God. The carnal mind is enmity with God.
What a lost sinner cannot tolerate is this message: “The best you can do will send you into Hell quicker than greased lightning.” He will not stand to be told this.
The natural man in his sins and walking in darkness thinks that he is basically good, and these thoughts are backed up by years of preaching that never tell him he is no good. The unsaved, unregenerate man thinks that except for a few minor weaknesses and character flaws, he can easily “turn over a new leaf” and get eternal life by following his conscience or the teachings of his church and doing good. Man’s imagination in scripture is said to be “evil from his youth” (Gen 8:21). Christ died to save you “from this present evil world” (Gal 1:4).
The preaching of the Cross attacks the basic problem in man – his self-loving pride. The Bible says, “All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags” (Isa 64:6). “Every man at his best state is altogether vanity” (Psa 39:5). “For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.” (Eccl 7:20).
The preaching of the cross is that your wisdom and your righteousness and your integrity and your good works in God’s sight only come to pile of filthy rags that are only fit for the city dump. You are as bad as bad can be. If God turned you upside down and shook you for a week, not one speck of goodness would fall out of you. The worst form of badness is human goodness when it becomes a substitute for the new birth. That is what unsaved people dead in trespasses and sins cannot stand to be told.
Man’s wisdom says that everyone has his price, and since people are basically good, a fellow just has to do enough good to reimburse God for the debt of his sin. The cross of Jesus Christ is the deathblow to human pride and man’s glory.
To be saved you have to be identified with a criminal. Jesus Christ was “numbered with the transgressors.” He was crucified between two thieves and took capital punishment as a criminal. Is that your crowd? You say to yourself, “No! that’s not my crowd.” Then you will go to Hell just as sure as you’re reading this message. That is the preaching of the cross.
So-called ministers today attempt to ‘dress up’ the Cross so they can profit from it. Men attempt to beautify that which was an ugly instrument of execution. There is nothing beautiful about the Cross. The cross is connected with shame, torture, murder, tears, nails, blood, spit, thorns, sorrow, pain, agony, suffering, and death. To be saved from sin and Hell, you have to classify yourself with thieves and murderers. Christ was “numbered with the transgressors” (Isa 53:12). “Christ died for the ungodly” (Rom 5:6). “Christ Jesus came into the world to save SINNERS” (I Tim 1:15).
The “preaching of the Cross” teaches that the one way to God is through the life, death, and resurrection of a crucified Saviour, who died an agonizing, bloody death for sinners. The cross cuts out good works of any kind. Your repentance won’t do (Judas repented and went to Hell, Matt. 27:3). Your water baptism won’t do, because Simon the sorcerer was baptized and wasn’t saved (Acts 8:13). Even ‘your’ belief won’t do if it isn’t based on the FACTS of the Gospel and the Person Who Died For You, because Paul said you could have “believed in vain” (I Cor 15:2).
The one way to Heaven is through the works of another man, not yourself. YOUR works count for absolutely nothing. Your good works are no good. There it is again: that’s the message that gets people furious. You won’t hear this message on the radio, on TV, or on a church pew today. The preaching of the cross is foolishness to this world, because the Gospel shows a man his foolishness and reveals to him clearly that he is sinner with no hope. Roman law under Caesar reserved the Cross for the worst of criminals: think of the disgrace and shame of hanging naked on a cross for hours in front of howling mob. Jesus “endured the Cross” for your sins, and “despised the shame” (Heb 12:2), so you could be freely saved by grace.
Jesus was numbered with the transgressors. Are you classified with crooks, or do you think you’re ‘somebody special that doesn’t need a Saviour.’ If you’re not willing to take your place with crooks, you cannot be saved. Jesus was made to be sin for us. He bore your sins in His own body on the tree. Somebody deserved some terrible punishment for sin – Hell, and Jesus took it all for you. Jesus was punished for your sin. The Justice of God fell on Him for sinners.
The Lord Jesus Christ said, “No man can come unto the Father but by me” (Jn 14:6). “That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him” (Jn 5:23) “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?” (Gal 4:16) “All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.” (Mt 11:27) If turn up your nose at Jesus Christ, you will go to hell. Modern man doesn’t think his sins need an Atonement. He thinks he is all right without it. He says to himself, “Well, I’ve never killed anybody, I’m as good as most folks, It all depends on how you look at it, all truth is relative. That Bible is full of mistakes and it was written by man.” Sinful man think they can do it themselves, they think they can get to heaven without Christ. It makes the world feel better if you don’t bring up they are going to hell, they want you to trust in your own righteousness, just like they are. The preaching of the cross pricks the conscience and cuts to the heart.
The Cross is an offence to a sophisticated society: You know the good and well-to-do, the decent and respectable folks, with their good breeding, perfect manners, refinements, the polished, high browed, with a high idea of themselves, made good in themselves, they would be a good people and help Christ a little, God has done a lot for them, but they will do the rest and then be saved by themselves.
But, they too must come and fall down at Jesus’ feet, give up their doings, give God all the glory, put away their pride, tell him they have nothing, they are nothing, they will never be anything more than nothing.
Christ died for the ungodly, Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, come to Christ with nothing besides your sin, come blind, come sick, come lost, or you cannot and must not come at all. The cross is repulsive to carnal sophisticated man and despicable, disgusting, horrid and hideous, objectionable, nauseating, and offensive.
The Lamb of God died for the good-for-nothings, the lost, the no-gooders, bums, scum of the streets, the riff-raff of society, the wretched, misfits, outcasts, mutts and scoundrels, strays, offscouring of society, rabble-rousers, Barrabas, thieves, malefactors, the one-percenters, undesirables, dregs of society, rascals, despicable, deplorable, disgusting, the vile, the worthless, transgressors, the very lowest grade, the public offenders, scorned, the hated, the worst of characters, desperate sinners, the chief of sinners, the baser sort, out-of-the-way sinners, vilest of the vile, scum of the city, refuse of the earth, dregs of society, whom no man seeks after.
The Pharisees said of Jesus, “this man receiveth sinners,” Luke 15:2 They wanted to slander Christ, but they actually gave him his most glorious title. Christ doesn’t receive everybody, He only receives sinners. Christ Jesus receives not the self-righteous, not the good, not the clean hearted, those who think don’t need a Saviour. He received the broken in spirit, the contrite in heart, those ready to confess they have broken his law, and stirred up his wrath. Those ready to confess their sins, who seek mercy through Immanuel’s veins, Jesus offered himself up on the cross for these few sinners. Jesus came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance, none but these ever come to Him. A self-righteous man will not come to Christ for mercy, do not consider themselves to be in need, they will never approach the throne of Grace. A self-righteous man cannot repent, his own goodness won’t let him. He will trust in God’s mercy and deny all his self-confidence. He thinks he has no sin great enough, so why should he repent, this would insult his dignity, approach to God, Heh! I haven’t sinned that much to say that I need God.
His knee will not bow and ask for pardon, His lips shall not seek forgiveness, He will not ask for mercy. He will not put himself in the place of a sinner, and cast away his own righteousness. He will not take off his polluted robe of self-righteousness. He will forsake his own refuge of lies and all of his own hopes,
The self-righteous man cannot come to God, or put his trust in Christ. He doesn’t need the living Christ. He needs no saviour to save him. He has his hands full of his own works. He will not say, Wash me, Heal me, Give me freedom, give me liberty, give me life. His very self-righteousness chains him, and palsies his arm, blind his eyes.
He will not give Christ the glory, a great sinner brings great glory to Christ alone when he is saved. The self-righteous if he could attain heaven by himself, would glorify himself, he would not glorify Christ.
The real sinner magnifies the word “forgiveness” Col 1:14 The sinner, and the sinner only will come to Christ. Only the sinner will magnify and glorify Christ. Jesus received sinners to wash them clean in His blood, to heal them with His medicine. The sick and dying.
He receives those looking for mercy, love, atonement, and righteousness. He takes the black and filthy sinner. Poor sick Sinners, He will not reject you. Receive His great atonement, and be clothed with his righteousness.
Only real, actual sinners come to Christ, not religionists merely confessing they are sinners, only those who FEEL their lost, ruined, hopeless. These are freely invited to come to Jesus Christ and to be saved by HIM. Come poor sinner, come. If you feel that you need a Saviour, Christ Himself made you feel it. Down on your knees, down on your knees.
Mercy’s door is open night and day, but there’s a sign over the door, “FOR HOPELESS SINNERS ONLY.”
Convicted, guilty, lost sinners, Christ says COME. Your distress and guilt is the work of the Holy Spirit. He is calling you now. Believe in Jesus, He is able to save you to uttermost, only trust in Christ and he will save you, at once.
He came all the way from Heaven to seek you and find you out in your wanderings and to save you and rescue you. He shed his very heart’s blood for you on the cross to redeem (buy back) your soul from death and Hell. He wants a sinner. He longs after perishing sinners. He wants sin-blackened souls, to wash them white, he seeks dead souls to make them alive.
Look this way to the cross with me: See Jesus eyes, he has pity for you, Look into his side, it was opened that you may hide your sins in it. See those drops of crimson blood, every drop is trickling down to the ground for you, Hear his death shrieks, he is crying out for your sake, Yes for you, if you are a sinner.
Say this: “Dear God, Have mercy upon my soul through the Precious Blood for Jesus’ sake.”
Only the man who is sick unto death will come to the Great Physician, who has a sense of his guilt, who feels he cannot save himself, has to rely upon a saviour.
A man once told Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, “the Cross is offensive to me. It is ugly and unsightly and I don't like to hear about it." Dr. Morgan replied, "I agree, for it speaks of your sins."
How do you picture the slaying of a little lamb in your mind? It is a ghastly and even sickening experience. Jesus Christ did not die upon a pretty white cross. He was nailed to a stake, a tree, a piece of wood. To sophisticated society, it is not pleasing.
THE CROSS IS AN INTELLECTUAL OFFENCE. See Matthew 11:25-26 Paul divides the human race into two classes-those who perish and those which are saved. These two classes feel differently about the message of the Cross. To those who perish, it is foolishness. To those who are saved, it is the power of God. The wise and prudent in Matthew 11 are those people who think they know; those people who believe that the wisdom of this world or their religion is enough; that all things can be understood by religious searching and that human intellect is sufficient. It is from these people that the message of the gospel is hidden. They cannot see nor understand. To them the gospel is foolishness.
The babes in Matthew 11 are not physical infants nor just those believers who are of a young age. Nor are they just the ignorant or those who are lacking in intelligence and understanding. 'Babes' are the direct opposite to the 'wise and prudent.' Babes are those who have come to see their insufficiency. They are those who have the wisdom to see what they do not know. They recognize their limitations in spiritual manners. They consider themselves as helpless as babes and are ready to listen and learn. Keep in mind that when God set up the cross of His Son, it was on a hill shaped like a skull. On top of man's skull He placed the cross. The message of the cross is not contrary to man's intellect, light years above it.
THE CROSS IS A SPIRITUAL OFFENCE. This is what Paul was saying to the Galatians. The Gospel has made them free. They were set at liberty to serve the Lord. Paul admonished them- Galatians 5:1, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” Do you know what the yoke of bondage was? It was trying to be accepted of God on the basis of religious rites and ceremonies. When a man falls for the message of man’s words or a religious denomination as a basis of salvation, he falls from the message of grace. You cannot have it both ways. Salvation is either by grace or works, but not both. If the Cross obliterated true Judaism of the Old Covenant, how much more did it obliterate the false, man-made Judaism represented by the scribes, Pharisees and Judaizers? God accepts nothing but the sacrifice of Christ. This slays man's pride. It offends him. The cross takes all glory from man and places it on God.
Come, come to Christ, come at his own invitation. To believe is to trust in Christ – to drop into his great and powerful and loving arms that can catch the heaviest laden sinner that ever breathed. To believe to fall flat on the promise – to let Him do all for you and let Him save you by HIS GRACE. Your good is your own peril, your righteousness is your own destruction, flee to the cross with empty hands and cling to the bleeding Lamb for forgiveness and mercy and lovingkindness.
Here’s the Simple Gospel Message: God in Heaven looked down upon the sinful race of man; He beheld them lost and ruined. Out of love to them He sent His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who was born of the virgin Mary. He lived some 33 years a life of spotless, sinless innocence and perfect obedience to God. Jesus Christ was God manifest in the flesh, but He was also a man. God was manifest in the flesh to suffer in the place of sinners. Jesus was the Sinner’s substitute. He went about doing good all the days of His life. In due time, He was delivered up by the traitor Judas Iscariot. Jesus was condemned as a criminal, scourged, mocked, and His head received a crown of thorns. He did all this for you.
The Lord God Almighty – the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ - took all the sin of man, and deliberately laid it upon his dear Son. His Son, willingly bearing that load of sin as the Substitute, went up to the Cross, and there He bore what was due for all that weight of sin, even the penalty of darkness, desertion, and death. By bearing the chastisement, He put away sin. He hung upon the Cross—His face was all stained with blood and bruises and with the spit of the rough soldiers. His blood trickled down the Cross, the red drops of God’s blood poured from Immanuel’s veins for you. Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe, sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow.
God the Son was crucified on a Cross for miserable sinners, and He bowed His head and gave up the ghost. He was buried and after three days He rose again, and showed Himself to His disciples for 40 days. When the 40 days were finished, He ascended up to Heaven in the sight of them all, where He now sits at the right hand of God, and shall also come again by-and-by the second time to judge both the quick and the dead. "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” (I Tim 1:15)
You desperately need to flee to Jesus Christ, now for mercy. You don’t have to bring your good feelings, good intentions, or good works—just come and take freely what God has done for you through the finished work of His Precious Son. You don’t even need to bring repentance and faith in order to obtain God’s Grace—you are to come and accept repentance and faith as the gifts of God and the work of the Holy Spirit. What broad gates of mercy these are! How wide is the entrance which Love has prepared for your soul!
The load of sin on a man’s soul wearies him and brings shame and guilt. Sins haunts a lost man, the sins of your past will not leave your memory. Man is longing to be clean inside and forgiven. There is a tempest in your heart today that you cannot still – the Hurricane of Sin will not stop blowing on your soul. There is a void and empty place in your soul that only God can fill. Stop doubting and rejecting Christ today. Just now, come with your sins, at Jesus’ crucified, bleeding feet lowly bow. Come and no longer delay. Bring your burden of sin, come to Jesus now just as you are.
Quit trying to save yourself, and ‘let Him’ save you and wash your sins away. Can you point to a place in your life where you have received God’s Son as your Savior. Not turning over a new leaf, getting religious, or joining a church. You may say, “I’m afraid I can’t live it.” Don’t worry about that, no one live a life good enough to get to Heaven. You need a Sinless Savior that lived, died and rose again the third day for you. Do you want a ‘fresh’ start? Flee from the wrath to come. Will you come to Jesus? He will save you forever. Are you sighing for rest and peace within?
Jesus said, “Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28). Do you feel your sin burden? Do you sense your danger? Do you understand your soul’s deep need? Do not risk another day without Christ as your Savior. In this evil world you will not find peace for your troubled mind. God will accept you if you come to Him on His terms – trust His Son alone to save your soul and nothing else. Look to Calvary where the Lamb of God bled for you. Come and fall down at the foot of the cross. Today, accept God’s Son, accept God’s grace. Salvation is free gift from God to a lost, undeserving sinner.
The shoes of God’s grace only fit on lost sinners. The robe of God’s righteousness only fits on a hell-deserving sinner. You may have wandered far away, but Jesus is still standing at your heart’s door today. He is seeking you today. It is bad manners to keep someone waiting, don’t keep God waiting, let Jesus come in heart today. He is knocking at your heart’s door now.
Are you lonely today? The Friend of Sinners, Jesus Christ, wants to live in your heart today. You soul may be trouble and weary and burden of sin may so heavy, but Jesus can take all your guilt away. Rely totally on Him to save you. Call upon His name right now and He will save you on the spot. Jesus is near, Jesus is near, waiting patiently for your decision, don’t turn Him away again. Don’t neglect so great salvation. Don’t slam the door of mercy in your own face.
There is no other way to Heaven but by Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus will lift your sin burden, give it all to Him. If your soul is thirsty today, you can take the water of life freely. It is flowing freely at your feet now. Stoop down, drink and live.
Have all your religious plans and efforts failed and left you empty? You are walking alone on life’s road today, you are weary from strife and heartaches. You are disappointed, wandering here and there, dragging chains of doubt and loaded down with sins and cares. Sin struggles with you, the devil is trying to blind you again, the world is alluring you away into darkness. You are stumbling in the darkness of sin and shame. You are groping in the dark toward on the brink of hell and the lake of fire. Bring your case to the Lord Jesus, ‘only’ He can heal your broken and sin-sick heart.
The temptations of sin have overcome you and you are full of distress. Your soul is sick and your heart is sore. You can trust a Man that died for you. The Man Christ Jesus went up Calvary’s mountain and died in your place when no one else would or could.
What will you do with Jesus, which is called Christ? Neutral you cannot be. Submit, obey the gospel, believe and live, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ alone today. Don’t turn away and remain into the darkness of sin and in the chains of Satan. There are danger and death in delay. Today is the day of salvation, tomorrow is only on the devil’s calendar. Why are you waiting? You’ve wasted many precious years in sin and pride. “Come, O come! Why will ye not come? Come now to Jesus”!
Think of Christ; that is the way to come to him. Think much of Christ, of His death, His blood, His resurrection; Believe him, believe in him, believe on him; — that is, trust Him alone, and all is done. Now, that is coming to Christ, — just putting your self into his hands.
The Lord knew that sinners would be hard to convince, he has told everybody who hears the gospel to try and bring you: “Let him that heareth say, Come.” If you were to receive an invitation to a dinner, it is possible that you would go the first time you were asked; but if you had a dozen letters inviting you, you would say, “Dear me, this is amazing; I have twelve letters, from twelve different people, all inviting me to this dinner.” How many times have you been invited to come to Jesus.
The Lord Jesus Christ himself says, “Come.” On one occasion, on the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.” And another day the Savior said, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Jesus is calling you, the Holy Spirit is calling you, and his people have called you; even the prophet Isaiah is still calling.
Dear Sinner Friend, Isaiah has been in heaven for thousands of years, yet at this moment he cries out of the holy Book of Isaiah, “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.” Isaiah still speaks today calls you to come to Christ. The call to your soul is from heaven. I hear Christ calling from the throne. I hear the Spirit calling. I hear the church calling. I am calling to you today for I am one of those who have heard the gospel for myself. Listen, then, oh, listen! Was there ever such a chorus of united invitation? Did ever so many hearts combine before about any one thing? Will you not come? Will you not come? Why will ye die in your sins? Why will ye die when the water of life flows at your feet? “Stoop down, and drink, and live.” Believe in Jesus alone – and His righteousness is yours freely – God imputes righteousness without works (Rom 4:6). Trust in the bleeding Savior, the Risen Savior, the Eternal Savior. There is no conceivable reason for rejecting and doubting Him. Trust Jesus to save you and you are saved immediately by grace.
