A SAVED person is one who has judgment behind him; hell shut under his feet; heaven open over his head; everlasting glory full in front of him; there is only a spider’s web between him and the glory; by faith he can see Jesus is glory; and he only waits for Jesus to rise up, put His feet upon the spider’s web, and then he and Jesus will be wrapped in each other’s embrace forever.
“He and I in that bright glory
One deep joy shall share;
Mine, that I am ever with Him,
His, that I am there.”
But a sinner is one who loves his pleasures in preference to the Saviour and pardon; he is unforgiven, unpardoned, and unsaved; he is a refuser of the love of God, a rejecter of the Christ of God, a resister of the Spirit of God, and a deliberate destroyer of his own precious and immortal soul.
In short, a sinner is one who has glory behind his back; “eternal judgment” staring him in the face; heaven is closed over his head, and hell is open in front of him; he is a child of wrath, on his road to the lake of fire, and ready for it.
Which are you—saved, or in your sins?
H. M. H.