Six Sermons on the Inquiry Is There Immortality in Sin and Suffering?

CONCLUDING REMARKS

God, has set life and death before us. We are called upon to choose life. God invites, commands, expostulates, entreats, and warns; but God cannot compel man to turn from death without destroying man’s moral agency, which would be, in fact, to unman man, and make him as incapable of higher happiness as any other mere animal. Man must turn and live, or he will pass on and die, — die because he would not have life; — die because he is unfit for any purpose of life — wholly disqualified for the employment of life. And the sinner, persisting in the course of sin and death, will as certainly pass the period of being restored, and when death entire must be the result, as certain as the man with a fatal physical disorder will certainly, by neglecting proper medical aid, pass the period when death cannot be arrested. And if you would think the man unwise, and acting insanely, that procrastinates, and puts off application to a proper remedy in such a physical disorder, how much more is every careless and dying sinner chargeable with folly and madness, who delays applying to Christ, the great Physician? Every day increases the danger; and every day the moral disease is increasing in malignity - every day is bringing the sinner nearer to that point, where, when once past, there is no recovery - destruction and death must follow. SSII 105.1

Let none, then, delay longer: - God is now calling - “look unto me and live.” The Lord Jesus Christ is stretching forth his hands, and saying, - “This is that bread which came down from heaven, that a man might eat thereof and not die.” “Whosoever drinketh the water that I shall give him” - it “shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” Hasten to Christ, then, who only has eternal life to give - believe in him, trust in his power and skill to make alive; abide by his directions - follow him. Remember no man can come to the Father but by Christ. There is no other way of salvation, or eternal life, but by the Son of God alone. All other physicians and remedies are of no value. If you stay away you die. O, come to Christ and live. SSII 106.1