The Ladder
“Then said Jesus unto them … I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved … . I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” (John 10:7, 9; 14:6).
This interesting and slightly amusing account told by the evangelist Mr. Moody, has a pungent and timely message:
“A man dreamed that he built a ladder from earth to Heaven, and when he did a good deed up went his ladder a few feet. When he did a very good deed his ladder went higher, and when he gave away large sums of money to the poor it went up further still. By and by it went out of sight, and as years rolled on, it went up, he thought, past the clouds, clear into Heaven. When he died he thought he would step off his ladder into Heaven, but he heard a voice roll out from paradise: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber” (John 10:1).Down he came, ladder and all, and he awoke. He said that if he wanted to get salvation, he must get it in another way than by good deeds, and he took the other way, which is by Jesus Christ.”
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