He's Left All

From: The Journey and Its End By: Algernon James Pollock

• 7 min. read • grade level: 2

Two friends met on the street.

They had just heard of the sudden death of a mutual acquaintance, possessed of much of this world's goods.

" What has he left? " inquired one.

" He's left ALL," was the abrupt and unexpected reply.

Yes; and when you come to die, my unconverted reader, YOU will Leave all-your friends, your home, your pleasures, your money, your all.

But stay, there is one thing, my unsaved friend, you would give worlds to be able to leave behind, but you cannot-YOUR SINS, unless you come to the Lord, and experience the cleansing value of the precious blood of Christ.

" The blood of Jesus Christ His Son, cleanseth... from ALL sin."

(1 John 1. 7).

The Five go Together.

" 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, but is passed from death unto life."

(John 5. 24).

IN this verse we have five precious things. Please to take particular notice of them:

John 5. 24.

1 Heareth 2 Believeth 3 HATH 4 Shall Not 5 IS

And mark, THE FIVE GO TOGETHER: you cannot have TWO and leave THREE, or THREE and leave TWO.

THEY GO ALL TOGETHER.

God says, " Here, poor anxious souls, here is a bundle of blessings for you."

Now, just read the verse again, and be sure you don't miss anything out of the bundle.

But I think I hear some anxious soul saying, " Oh! yes, I know all that; I've read that verse over and over again; but still I'm no better-it's no use going over it any more, I don't feel that I'm saved! '

" I'm very thankful, indeed, for that."

" Thankful, Sir, because I can't say I'm saved '? "

" No! but thankful you can't FEEL saved. You see, you are trying to put into the bundle what God leaves out, and leaving out what God puts in. FEELING SAVED is not in the whole verse. ' Faith cometh by hearing' (Rom. 10. 17), and, in this verse,

The Lord puts HEARING first;

then BELIEVING; then HATH;

then SHALL NOT;

then IS.

You want to leave out the BELIEVING, and substitute FEELING.

" So I am thankful, as I said before, that you don't FEEL SAVED; for if you were to get some nice FEELINGS, you would run away with the idea that you were saved, and if asked, ' Are you saved? ' you would reply, ' Yes.' ' How do you know? " Well, I've felt a change, and I'm very happy.'

" Then the first time the dark clouds sailed across your sky your feelings would go, and then you would have lost your Savior. Thus you would make a Savior of your FEELINGS instead of CHRIST. Now, please don't put in what God leaves out, and don't say you know all about it, for I'm sure you don't know these five precious things that are linked together.

LET US LOOK AT THE VERSE CLOSELY.

" Well, look here, have you ' heard' the Word? "

" Yes, I have."

" And believed on Him that sent Him? " " Yes, I do believe."

" Well, now, please tell me what you believe? "

" I believe that God sent Jesus to take my place, and He died for me, and I accept Him as my own personal Savior."

"Do you? "

" Yes, I do."

" Now, you are sure you do? "

" Quite sure."

" Then you have HEARD? "

" Yes, I have."

" And you BELIEVE? "

" Yes, I do."

'` Then, wh,at is the third thing? "

" HATH everlasting life.' "

" Then, have you got everlasting life? "

" Ah! well, but you see that's just what I

cannot say; if I could only feel sure about that

point I should be all right.'

" Well, what do you think would make you feel sure? "

" I scarcely know."

" Look here, supposing you owed the rent of a house and couldn't pay it, and I go and pay every farthing of it, and bring you the receipt. What would make you sure as to the rent being paid? "

" Oh! the receipt, of course.'

" Quite so, and you would FEEL nappy because you KNEW your rem was paid, and

should the landlord again demand the rent, you would not speak to him of your feelings, but produce the receipt. And God is holding, out His receipt to you, and you are shutting your eyes to it, and wanting to FEEL it, instead of reading and believing it.

" You have HEARD? "

" Yes."

" You BELIEVE? "

" Yes."

" Then God says, you HAVE, not you HOPE to get. HATH everlasting life ' is His word, and that is not all; you SHALL NOT come into condemnation ' or judgment. That has all fallen on Jesus, and the believer is in Him, and there is therefore NOW NO CONDEMNATION to them which are IN Christ Jesus' (Rom. 8. 1).

" You will never stand before The Great White Throne to be judged for your sins; all your judgment was borne by Jesus on the Cross, and He has so settled that question, that God has raised Him from the dead.

The Lord Jesus in the glory is the proof that the debt is paid, and thus you can never come into judgment, for your sins are all gone.

" But that is not all, even, for we get another thing, ' IS passed from death unto life.' You were in a state of death, ' dead in trespasses and sins ' (Eph. 2. 1). But now you ARE passed from death unto life; not WILL do so by and by, but, IS passed.' How glorious! Quickened together, raised up together, made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Eph. 2. 5, 6). What a bundle of blessings, and any poor sinner

that has HEARD and' BELIEVED, gets the other three also, for they all go together.

" Now, anxious one, would you like the five? "

" Yes, indeed, I would."

" Will you take them? "

" Then, here they are for you:-

" HEARETH My Word.' Have you heard? " " Yes, I have."

" BELIEVETH on Him that sent Me.' Do you believe? "

" Yes, I do."

" HATH everlasting life.' Have you it? " " Yes, I see I have."

" ' SHALL NOT come into condemnation.' Will you be condemned? "

" No, I am sure I shall not; I see it now."

" IS passed from death unto life.' Are you thus passed? "