What Man Says and What God Says
by William R. Newell
Saved by grace alone!
This is all my plea:
Jesus died for all mankind;
And Jesus died for me.
MAN SAYS: "I do not believe that I am lost." God
says: "The Son of man came to seek and to save that which is lost." Man
says: "I believe doing right is the way to heaven." God says:
"By works of righteousness shall no flesh be justified in His sight " Man
says: "I am doing the best I can. What more can God expect?" God says:
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ"-and, "This is the work of God, that ye believe
on Him whom He hath sent" Man says: "My good works, my gifts to the
church, my kindness to the poor, will reconcile God to me." God says:
"Men are reconciled to God through of His Son." Man says: "There are
others worse than I am." God says: "There is no difference: for all have
sinned." Man says: "I was born in a Christian family." God says:
"Ye must be born again." Man says: "I have a noble nature." God
says: "You were by nature children of wrath." Man says: "I think
God will pass by such sins as I may have committed." God says: "He spared
not His own Son," when man's sin was laid on Him and, Christ cried out, "My God,
my God why hast thou forsaken me?" Man says: "My small sins; my lies,
white lies." God says: "The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against
all ungodliness and all unrighteousness of men." Man says: "I am willing
to chances." God says: "How shall we escape if we neglect so great a
salvation?"
What fearful folly to dream that God will treat you, the sinner differently from
Christ, the Sin-Bearer; God must judge sin, and He has judged it, at the cross! Go into
bankruptcy at once, as a lost sinner, and rely on the shed blood of the only Redeemer! God
cannot lie! He has said: "To him that worketh not; but believeth on Him that
justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness" (Romans 4:5)
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