"Paid for."

From: Messages of God's Love: 1925

Narrator: Chris Genthree

Duration: 1min

SUPPOSE I go into a store, and buy something. The storekeeper wraps my parcel, and I pay for it. I tell him I will leave it, and come for it in an hour or two. He then writes my name, and the words, “Paid for,” upon the parcel, and under the words “Paid for,” he prints four other words, “To be called for.”

This is what is written on every believer: — “Paid for.” How? By the precious blood of Christ (1 Peter 1:18, 19¹⁸Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; ¹⁹But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: (1 Peter 1:18‑19)); and “To be called for,” for the One who paid for us will call for us very soon, that we may live with Him forever. “I will come again, and receive you unto Myself.” John 14:3³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:3).

Is that what is written on each of you, my dear children? “Paid for”; and are you waiting “to be called for”?

“Jesus is the Shepherd—for the sheep He bled,

Every lamb is sprinkled with the blood He shed:

Then on each He setteth His own secret sign,

They that have My Spirit, these, saith He, are Mine.”

ML 07/12/1925

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