I WILL leave you five hundred pounds in my will, if you will save my soul.”
So said a man to me one day as we were conversing about God and eternity.
He seemed to be in earnest as he said it. As a keen man of business, and in the habit of making good bargains, he thought it would be a good investment for five hundred pounds, if in return he could be sure of heaven.
I replied, “If you were to promise me five thousand pounds, I could not save you; but there is One who will for nothing. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”
He did not then give his heart to Jesus; and I don’t know that he ever did. If he does not, he will find, after all his schemes on earth are ended, that the devil has outwitted him; for “What shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” His soul! Yes, and your soul, sinner—your immortal soul! “The soul that sinneth it shall die.”
You have been a drunkard, it may be? Listen, “The soul that sinneth it shall die.” A blasphemer? “The soul that sinneth it shall die.” An unbeliever? “The soul that sinneth it shall die.” O sinner, look to Jesus for salvation. There is no other name given among men whereby we must be saved. If riches could buy salvation; what could the poor do? If learning, what of the ignorant? If position availed for salvation, what of the lowly? No, “Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift.” “The gift of God is eternal life.” Will you have it? ―now?