The Lord Jesus said:
“In My Father’s House are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare to place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know and the way ye know.”
“I am the Way”
Christ Is Coming.
Don’t fail to read every word, as it is an appeal regarding your safety when that terrible day shall come:
Will You Be Ready?
“Sit Thou at My right hand until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool” (Psa. 110:11<<A Psalm of David.>> The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. (Psalm 110:1)) Thus spake the Father, as the Son entered heaven with the marks of the world’s hatred upon His blessed person.
Nigh two thousand years have come and gone since then, and time, with lightning wing is speeding us toward that awful moment when the Son will rise up in resistless might to fulfill the Father’s decree. Christ is coming to make His enemies His footstool. Art thou washed in His blood? If so thou art His friend. If not, thou art Christ’s enemy, and when He comes in power and great glory it will be to crush thee, as His enemy, beneath His feet (2 Thess 1:7-9) (Rev. 19:11-1211And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 12His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. (Revelation 19:11‑12).) Oh, the terrors of the Christless at that coming! The coming of the Man whom the world once crucified, whose love it has not ceased to scorn, and whose blood it has even treated with proud indifference. Men who never prayed before will then, in their soul’s deep terror, cry to the rocks and to the mountains, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?” Rev. 6:16, 1716And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? (Revelation 6:16‑17). Vain prayer! The Lamb’s arm of judgment shall then reach all who would not take salvation from His hand of love. Then will forever cease the gay song, the careless laugh and the mad whirl of gaiety, in which the poor victims of the devil are indulging, and an eternity of weeping and wailing take their place.
Then will forever be suspended the world’s pleasures and business, with the allurements of the one, and the wear, hurry and bustle of the other, which so often shut out God, and leave men no time to think of their soul’s deep need. Then will forever be arrested the world’s boasted progress, and man in his mad career of proud indifference to the claims of God brought face to face with Him whom God has constituted Judge of quick and dead.
Christ Is Coming!
Christ is coming, and one of two things will happen to you when He comes: you will either be caught up to be forever with Him, or else left behind for judgment. Think of it―left behind for judgment. Jesus said “As it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man.” How was it in the days of Noe? A world of sinners, heedless of God’s warnings, and unprepared for His judgment, was in a moment swept away to eternal destruction by the terrible waters of wrath. So shall it be when Christ comes. Multitudes will be unprepared, because unwashed in His blood, and hence will be damned throughout eternity. Shall you be one of them?
No Mercy
There will be terrible crying and wailing in that day, Reader, men and women crying out for mercy, and wailing because no mercy can be found. Will your voice be heard? The myriads who have heard the gospel of God’s grace, and turned carelessly away, will realize then that the day of grace is past, and that their doom is forever fixed. Shall you be one of them? Oh, mad lingerer on the brink of that abyss at whose foot dash and roar the flaming waves of eternal judgment, I warn you that Christ’s coming is no mere fancy of a disordered mind. Already there are to be heard the mutterings of the approaching tempest. How direst thou trifle with the solemn question of thy soul’s salvation! I adjure thee, by Christ’s dread appearing, by the love that thou hast for thy soul, by the fear of hell’s eternal torment, to fly this moment for refuge to that Savior who still cries, “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.”
The Judge Is Coming
Yes, the Judge is coming, and yet there comes to us His voice, borne along the centuries of the distant past, still pleading with the sinner in the tones of the tenderest love, “Come unto Me,... and I will give you rest.” “He that believeth on Me hath everlasting life.” (Matt. 11:2828Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28); John 6:4747Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. (John 6:47)). But even as we listen the voice changes to a voice of sorrow, and we hear Him grieving, “And ye will not come to Me that ye might have life.”
Reader, are those words of grief prophetic of the doom of thy Christless soul? Or wilt thou this instant hasten through the shadows of impending judgment that even now gather round thy path, to the feet of Him who died that thou mightest live, and who, in patient grace, still lingers to receive thee and forgive thee through the virtue of His blood?
“He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” Mark 16.16.