“IF there is any boy or girl here .1 who will come and take this watch, they can have it.” The speaker was talking to a large company of children, telling them of God’s love and the meaning of the word “whosoever.”
Putting his hand into his vest pocket he took out a watch and held it up to the view of the children. No one came forward, and again he made the offer, impressing the fact that they could have it if they would come and take it.
After a pause one little boy in the middle of the hall stood up and asked, “Do you really mean it, Guv’nor?” Like many others he did not think the spear really meant what he said.
“Yes,” was the reply, “I really mean what I say: If you come to me you can have the watch.”
Another slight pause, and then the boy rose to his feet, pushed his way to the front and mounting the platform, held out his hand for the watch. The speaker put it into the boy’s hand. The little fellow said, “Thank you,” and returned with the watch, which had really been given to him. How disappointed the other children looked. Several remarked, “I would have taken it if I thought he really meant it.”
How like many of us this is. God has promised a gift to “whosoever,” a gift of salvation through Christ Jesus, His own beloved Son.
God means just what He says, and faith is simply taking God at His word.
Who does WHOSOEVER include? Who doesn’t it include? WHOSOEVER includes you, dear young reader, and God says that if you take Him at His word, and come to Him confessing your sins but believing that “the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)), then you will receive His gift of eternal life. You cannot have this priceless treasure any other way than by accepting it as a gift. It costs you nothing, but it cost God’s dear Son everything. He gave Himself up to those awful sufferings on the cross and laid down His life in order to make it free to you.
However, there is another WHOSVER and a most solemn one, which we must not forget. “WHOSOEVER was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” Rev. 20:1515And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:15).
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