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Edited By Heymen Wreford
“IF you were to die tonight, where would your soul be?” was the question asked by an evangelist of a young woman at the close of a gospel meeting. Trembling with emotion, she instantly replied, “If I were dying now, I would go to hell, for I am not ‘born again.’”
Perceiving her condition, he spoke to her of God’s desire to save her, and pointed her to John 5:24: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life,” with the request that she would think upon it while he spoke to others. On returning to the place where she sat, he observed that her countenance was radiant with delight. Asking the question that he had previously proposed, with beaming face she immediately replied, “If I were dying now, I would go to heaven.” “How did the change come about?” she was asked. “Through three words in the verse: ‘hath,’ ‘shall not,’ and ‘is.’ I see I have everlasting life, according to God’s word; I shall not come into condemnation; I am passed from death unto life. For a fortnight I have been trying to feel saved, but now I know I am· saved, according to God’s word.” Not long afterward the Lord took her to be with Himself, and on her deathbed she used to say, “Thank God for ‘hath,’ ‘shall not,’ and ‘is.”’
The three “links” in the “chain” are hearing, believing and having. Satan has, however, three counterfeit “links” in his “chain,” which, alas! too many accept― “praying,” “working,” “perhaps you’ll have.” Will you believe God or Satan?
If the reader has believed what God has said against him, and now hears and believes the gospel of God’s grace, he will be able to say, with the young woman now with the Lord, “Thank God for ‘HATH’ ‘SHALL NOT,’ and ‘IS.’”