The Mighty Deliverer.

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“There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man” (Eccl. 9:14,1514There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. (Ecclesiastes 9:14‑15)).
THE little city with few men within doubtless refers to this world with its inhabitants. The great king is, without doubt, Satan, the Prince and God of this world, an enemy of tireless activity, who is the head of a vast host of demons, and whose sole desire is to beguile and deceive the inhabitants of this world.
At the creation of man he entered into the serpent, and beguiling Eve by his subtlety, secured the downfall of Adam, and through him of the race, and the entrance of sin into the world. Here, then, it was that the great enemy of our souls launched the attack which had such disastrous result for man, because through it, “Sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Rom. 5:1212Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (Romans 5:12)).
Yet, blessed and most wonderful truth, that though the whole world was lost in the darkness of sin. “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.” There was thus found in it a poor, wise man, “that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)).
But only at infinite cost was the mighty deliverance obtained; for it cost the Son of God, Himself, His own life, His most precious blood.
Then look away to Him who is seated at the right hand of the majesty on high, a mighty Deliverer, the Lord Jesus, the only Saviour.
May it not be said of you as those of old― “Yet no man remembered that same poor man.” Is it nothing to you that deliverance has been procured for whosoever will? There are none whom He is not able to save, none whom He is not able to keep eternally. Hear the voice of the Son of God: “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:3737All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37)). Will you not come? God grant it.
H. PARKINSON.