IF Jesus were on earth, would you not go to Him, and ask Him to save you? Would you not believe Him if He said to you, "Thy sins are forgiven thee; thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace?" Thus He speaks to you in the Bible. Hear His voice, believe what He says, command away every doubt by the authoritative voice of the mighty Savior. He is now at the right hand of God; but still He speaks—speaks from heaven—speaks in the living word, the Scriptures of truth. And why is He exalted to the throne of the Majesty in the heavens? In order to be a Prince and a Savior —to give repentance and the remission of sins. His name, Jesus, given to Him at His birth, and again given to Him by God in the resurrection, proclaims the blessed truth, that salvation is in Him. Faith in that name is sufficient.
Two gentlemen were lately conversing together upon this momentous subject. One said to the other, after pointing out to him the mighty work of Christ on the cross, "Do you need anything more?" The other replied, "Yes I think I do; I think I must have some work of my own." His friend replied, "Jesus at the right hand of God is ray title, and my only title, to salvation. Here are pen, ink, and paper; now write me down a better.”
The truth is that Christ in glory is the proof of the complete and all-sufficient value of His death. If a friend becomes surety for me, and is thrown into prison on account of my debt, and I afterward meet that friend walking at liberty, I am sure he must have made full satisfaction for my debt, otherwise he would not be out of prison. So the Lord, at the right hand of power on high, is a proof that He has answered to the full every demand of God against me as a sinner. His death is everything or nothing. It is either the entire blotting out and canceling of every charge that can be made against me, or it avails me nothing.