Why Should You Not Be Saved?

 •  2 min. read  •  grade level: 6
 
NO doubt you have heard different people in the open air and in halls and other places get up and say that they have been born again, that their sins are forgiven, that they now are saved. As you have listened to these statements, have you not thought within yourself, “I wonder whether this is really true or not. Are these people given the power to live a different life by just believing that God is able to save them, and that He has saved them through faith in His word and in the work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross?” Now, if you have your doubts about this there is one thing I should like to tell you and that is, that it is indeed true as we know from the Bible, the word of God. But if salvation is offered you now—for now is the day of salvation—there is a judgment to come for all who refuse it, although this may perhaps seem incredible to you. Nevertheless the issue is certain. Oh, will you not believe God’s word, which cannot lie? He tells you the truth as to your real state before Him, as verily “guilty.” Then no longer rebel, but bow to Him confessing you are a sinner, and that Jesus came to save sinners. He willeth not the death of any but that all may be saved. Receive Him as your Saviour. He receives sinners, however bad, and refuses none. Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. Why not get down on your knees now and ask God to save you? Don’t start asking yourself whether the Bible is true, just take God at His word. Believe, and you shall be saved just now. I myself was once living in sin away from God, just as you now are. But I came to myself. I believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for me, and instantly I knew my sins forgiven. This same blessedness shall be yours if you will but come to Jesus now, just as you ate, and rest your soul absolutely on Him, who bore our sins in His own body on the tree. He died, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God. May God give you to trust Him thus—resting all upon what Christ has suffered on the cross. It is His blood that cleanseth us from every sin, and makes the believer whiter than snow. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on 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)).
H.W.G.