WHY must I escape? Because the judgment of God is coming, and you are a sinner. By nature you are a child of wrath, and by practice you have constantly transgressed His holy word. Moreover, you cannot change your evil nature, or deliver yourself from it, or even blot out one of the many sins written in God's book against you. Your case then is most urgent—your condition desperate; you are "dead in sins," and "lost." In God's sight your nature is incurably bad (Rom. 8:7, 8); you are utterly unclean, and utterly undone. Escape, then; escape at once. "Escape for thy life!”
Where shall I escape? To Jesus the Son of God, for He only can save you. He is at the right hand of God. There you will find Him. There is salvation in no other. He is the only Savior of sinners, and He delights to save. He only can save you. He casts out none that come to Him. It is no use to escape to religiousness, to ministers, or to societies, because you want salvation; you want the forgiveness of sins; you want present peace with God. Take refuge then in the Lord Jesus, who died for the ungodly, whose blood cleanseth from all sin, and by Him all that believe are justified from all things. (Acts 13:39.) Fly, then, to His outstretched loving arms. Trust Him who said, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." (Matt. 11:28.) Escape then to Him, and "Escape for thy life!”
When shall I escape? At once. Delay not Today is the accepted time, tomorrow may be too late. Now you are this side the grave, tomorrow you may be in eternity. Oh then, linger not. Be decided. Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your heart. Take refuge in the Lord Jesus now. Beware of putting it off. Eternal torment for un-cleansed sinners is a dread reality. Escape then, to Jesus; escape now. "Escape for thy life!”
How shall I escape? Just as you are. Come to Jesus with all your sins. Come as lost and guilty; for Jesus died for sinners, loves sinners, preaches to sinners, and saves sinners. He suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God. Do think of this. You have then nothing to do, nothing to feel, nothing to be before you come to Jesus; but simply come to Him in all your guilt and wretchedness, and He will save you; for "God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Hint should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Oh then, dear reader, escape the coming wrath by fleeing to the Lord Jesus; escape at once; escape just as you are. "Escape for thy life!" May the language of your heart be—
“Just as I am, and waiting not
To rid my soul of one dark blot;
To Thee, whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come”
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“CHRIST never said to a sinner," Go right, and come up to Me," but when we were wrong He came down to us — "while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.”