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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