"You know yourself an offender before the Lord—and you want the sense of forgiveness
in your heart. You know yourself inclined to be an offender again—and you want
the renewing grace of God to make your heart clean, and set it free from the
power of sin. Then you want also something to make you happy; and the love of
Jesus alone can do that."
"Jesus said, 'If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.' There is all fulness
in him. Go to him for light—go to him for strength—go to him for forgiveness,
for healing, for sanctification. 'Whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely.'"
"Hear it now. The Lord Jesus is not far off—as you think—he is very near; he can hear
the faintest whisper of a petition that you send to him. It is his message I bring you today—
a message to you. I am his servant, and he has given me this charge for you to-day—to tell you
that he loves you—that he has given his life for yours—and that he calls (your name here) * to give him your heart, and then to give him your life, in all the obedience his service may require."
"Then you can understand now, that when one can say, joyfully, 'I know that my Redeemer liveth';—when he is no vague abstraction, but felt to be a Redeemer;—when one can say assuredly, he is my Redeemer; I know he has bought back my soul from sin and from the punishment of sin, which is death; I feel I am forgiven; and I know he liveth—my Redeemer—and according to his promise lives to deliver me from every evil and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom;—do you see, now, that one who can say this has on his head the covering of an infinite protection—an infinite shelter from both danger and fear?—a helmet, placed on his head by his Lord's own hand, and of such heavenly temper that no blows can break through it."
*slight abridgement from the book.
