There is an immense difference between the position, portion, and prospect of a sinner and that of a saint.
A saint is one who is separated to God by the Spirit of God and the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
A saint is a person who has the present and eternal forgiveness of every sin; has everlasting life in the Son of God; is saved forever; is indwelt by the Holy Spirit; is “accepted in the Beloved”; is “complete in Christ”; is a member of Christ’s body; and is made meet to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light.
In short, a saint is one who has judgment behind him; hell shut under his feet; heaven open over his head; everlasting glory full in front of him. There is only a spider’s web between him and the heavenly glory; by faith he can see Jesus there; and he only waits for Jesus to rise up, put his feet upon the spider’s web, and then he will be with and like his Lord forever.
“He and I in that bright glory
One deep joy shall share;
Mine, that I am ever with Him,
His, that I am there.”
But a sinner is one who loves his sins and his pleasures in preference to the Saviour and pardon; he is unforgiven, unpardoned, and unsaved; he is a refuser of the love of God, a rejecter of the Christ of God, a resister of the Spirit of God, and a deliberate destroyer of his own precious and immortal soul.
In short, a sinner is one who has glory behind his back; “eternal judgment” staring him in the face; heaven is closed over his head, and hell is open in front of him; he is a child of wrath on his road to the lake of fire, and ready for it.
What are you, a saint or a sinner?
My reader, where are you at this moment? Are you still living and walking according to the course of this world? Do its pleasures, honors, fashions, and its so-called progress, or its falsely called science, absorb your heart and mind? We cannot serve two masters. It must be either God or mammon, Christ or the world. Which is it with you?
Sure I am, that believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was crucified for sinners, will give you peace, and bring you nigh to God. It is vain to look elsewhere; for the God of truth declares that there is salvation in no other: for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved, but the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12).