TAKE THIS COURSE
WHERE
MUST A MAN GO FOR PARDON?
Where is forgiveness to be found? There is
a way both sure and plain, and into that way I desire to guide every
inquirer’s feet. That way is simply to trust in Jesus Christ as
your Lord and Savior. It is to cast your soul, with all its sins,
unreservedly on Christ. It is to cease completely from any dependence
on your own works or doings, either in whole or in part, and to rest
on no other work but Christ’s work, no other righteousness but
Christ’s righteousness, no other merit but Christ’s merit, as
your ground of hope. Take this course and you are a pardoned soul.
"To
Christ,"
says Peter, "give
all the prophets witness, that through His Name whosoever believeth
in Him shall receive remission of sins"
[ACTS
10:43].
"Through
this Man,"
says Paul at Antioch, "is
preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by Him all that
believe are justified from all things"
[ACTS
13:38].
"In Him,"
writes Paul to the Colossians, "we
have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins"
[EPHESIANS 1:7;
COLOSSIANS 1:14]. The
Lord Jesus Christ, in great love and compassion, has made a full and
complete satisfaction for sin, by suffering death in our place upon
the cross. There He offered Himself as a sacrifice for us, and
allowed the wrath of God, which we deserved, to fall on His own head.
For
our sins, as our Substitute, He gave Himself, suffered, and died, -
the Just for the unjust, the innocent for the guilty, - that He might
deliver us from the curse of a broken law, and provide a complete
pardon for all who are made willing to receive it. And by so doing,
as Isaiah says, He has borne our sin; as Paul says, He has purged our
sins, and put away sin; and as Daniel says, He has made an end of sin
and finished transgression [ISAIAH
53:11; JOHN
1:29; HEBREWS
1:3; HEBREWS
9:26; DANIEL
9:24].
-Gospel report by preacher J. C. Ryle
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