WE close our volume with these three questions:
What shall it profit a man al he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
What shall it profit you, poor, unsaved sinner? You will never gain very much of the world—at the most, only a little money, honor, glory. Do, we entreat you, meditate upon this solemn inquiry which Jesus, the Lord of all, puts before you: What will all that the world can give you profit you if you lose your soul? “There is surely no harm in this,” said a worldly man to a Christian. “Well,” he replied, “but suppose it should cost you your soul!” You may think lightly of the way you live for your daily pleasures, but suppose you die as you are, and are lost?
What must I do to be saved? You are lost in sin already, but you may be saved. Your soul is not where there is no hope. Can you answer this second question? It is the question of all questions for you, poor unsaved sinner.
The Saviour of sinners died that we might live; He gave Himself to save the lost. Being lost, you cannot save yourself. If you could save yourself you would not need a Saviour. Look off from every hope in self, look alone to Jesus, crucified for sinners, and now in heaven, having finished the work of salvation. He is the perfect Saviour, the willing Saviour, able and ready to save you now, just as you are. While there is opportunity, oh! be entreated. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”
How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Who can answer this solemn inquiry? Suppose you trifle with salvation, and play with time, and suddenly awake in eternity! Ah! sinner, it will be in eternity that this tremendous question will be groaned out. How shall we escape? How! Ages will roll on, and on, and on, but no one will find an answer—no one can say how escape can be. If you neglect Jesus, the Saviour, now, and die lost, you must remain lost—hopelessly, eternally lost.