Prescribing the Remedy

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A doctor once told me, “When I am called to Mrs. Curtis, she always begins to prescribe for herself before I even have time to sit down. She tells me all about herself, her ailments, the medicine she needs. In fact, she thinks she knows her case thoroughly, and my wonder is that she ever sends for me.”
How like this is to sinners! True, they think it might be well to have the Great Physician near them, but they do not listen to His voice. They speak about themselves, their sins, their works, as if they were wiser than God’s Word.
The presumptuous patient was not healed by her talking, but by the doctor’s medicine and until the sinner is silent, and listens to the Word of God, he will not, cannot obtain peace with God.
“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Rom. 5:11Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: (Romans 5:1).
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:1212Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12).
“HE THAT BELIEVETH
ON HIM IS NOT
CONDEMNED: BUT HE
THAT BELIEVETH NOT
IS CONDEMNED
ALREADY, BECAUSE HE
HATH NOT BELIEVED
IN THE NAME OF
THE ONLY BEGOTTEN
SON OF GOD.”
“DOST THOU BELIEVE
ON THE SON OF GOD?”