"Well, my friend, are you going to heaven?" So asked a servant of Christ of a man who, with many others, had come into a room where a lunch had been provided and the gospel was to be preached.
"Yes, sir, I believe I am," he replied. "And what is your title to go there?”
The man was silent for a few moments. The servant of Christ took his hesitance as an opportunity to continue his questioning. He said: "Suppose, now, you found yourself in heaven, and an angel came to you and asked: 'What right have you to be here? What is your title to heaven?' What answer would you give?”
After a few minutes' further silence, the poor man looked up and replied: "The atoning value of the blood of Christ.”
Blessed answer! What answer could you give, my friend? None can enter there but those who have trusted in the atoning value of the blood of Christ, while in this earthly life.
"O precious blood! on Calv'ry shed
For sinful souls in trespass dead!
And seated on the throne is He
Whose precious blood atoned for me.
"O precious blood! O, living way,
By which the chief of sinners may,
Accepted, stand before his God!
O precious, reconciling blood!”
"For ye know the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that, though
He was rich, yet for your sakes
He became poor, that ye through
His poverty might be rich.”