Jul 11
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You will as surely be lost if you trust to your good works, as if
you had trusted to your sins.
There is a ‘clean’ path to hell as well as a ‘dirty’ one. There is as
sure a road to perdition along the ‘highway of morality’, as sure as
down the slough of vice.
If your faith is not fixed in Jesus, your best works will be but
SPLENDID SINS.
All the performance of duties will not bring you salvation. Trust
Jesus, and you are saved. Trust self, and you are lost. There is
your only hope, poor shipwrecked mariner– yonder
constellation of the cross with those five stars, the wounds
of Jesus- look there and live. One glance and you are saved.
Those soul-quickening words, “Believe and live,” comprehend the
whole gospel of God.
May the Divine Spirit lead you now out of self, unto Christ.