IN ONE OF the narrow streets of a city years ago a fire broke out in an apartment house. In one of the top rooms a father and his two boys were sleeping. When they awoke it was to find the staircase in flames and no apparent way of escape.
The father was determined to save his boys, however, and so making a bridge of his body he stretched himself from, the window of their room to the window across the street. Then he told his boys to crawl over and they quickly passed to safety on the other side. However, the brave father collapsed under the strain and falling to the street he died from the fall. He had saved the lives of his dear boys at the cost of his own.
Like the burning house in our story, this world which cast out and crucified God’s beloved Son, is doomed to judgment and soon will be swept by the awful fire of God’s wrath. The Lord Jesus at the cost of His own life has made a bridge from earth to heaven — from death unto life. Now, guilty sinners once doomed to death and judgment, who put their trust in Him as their Saviour pass from the place of condemnation into the place of favor and blessing. “All who trust in Jesus Christ are saved evermore!” “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16).
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation [judgment]; but is passed from death unto life.” John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24).
Sinner friend, flee from the wrath to come! Christ is the Way, the only Way! He has said: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.” John 14:66Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6). “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:1212Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12).
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