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Through Baca’s Vale

August 5

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“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
John 17:3

How many are anxious to know what is the way of salvation, how eternal life is to be obtained, and how to “flee from the wrath to come.” But the Lord Jesus has shown in one short sentence in what eternal life consists, that it is in the knowledge of the “only true God, and of Jesus Christ, Whom He has sent.” He therefore that knows the Father and the Son has eternal life in his soul. The Lord Jesus, in the sixth chapter of John, quoted this among other passages of the Old Testament, and says, “It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes unto Me.” He lays this down, then, as one especial fruit of divine teaching, that it produces a coming unto Him.

The Spirit, Who teaches to profit, holds up before the eyes of the soul, the Person, work, blood, love, grace, and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. He shows the soul that He is just such a Saviour as it needs. He opens up the dignity of His Person, and shows that He is God-man. He makes known in the conscience that He has offered up Himself a sacrifice for sin; that He has shed His atoning blood so that the sin of the Church is forever put away from the sight of a just God. He opens up before the eyes of the mind His glorious righteousness, as that in which the Father is well pleased, and in which if the soul has but a saving interest, it is secure from the wrath to come.

He unfolds to the heart the willingness of Christ to receive every coming sinner; He shows the treasures of mercy and grace which are locked up in Him; and brings down in the heart the comforting words that He spoke in the days of His flesh, such as, “Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” “Him that comes to Me I will in no wise cast out.” “If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink.”

To the reader…

Poor sinner, are you anxious about how you will flee from the wrath to come? That is no small concern, and it is good that it does not let you go. But do not look for the answer in a long road of your own works. Eternal life consists in this: to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom He has sent. Whoever is taught by the Spirit comes to Him.

Do you wonder whether He is really such a Saviour as you need? Then let the Spirit paint His Person, His blood, and His righteousness before your eyes. He offered Himself up for sin, and He is willing to receive every sinner who comes. Are you weary and heavy laden, does your soul thirst? His own words are for you: “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” Come, then, just as you are, and trust that He will not break His Word.

With warm regards,
The compilers of jcphilpot.nl