We think we have power, but it pales in comparison with the power of God. If God could bring Jesus Christ back from the dead, He can certainly deal with our sins, although it is a powerful work. And a powerful work it is. When you think of how we have violated the commandments of Christ, of how we have chosen to go our own way, of how we have established ourselves as our own gods, of how we have allowed our hearts to fall in love with the things of this world, then you realize that for our hearts to be changed is no small thing. If Niagara could suddenly be made to leap upward instead of forever dashing downward from its rocky height, it were not such a miracle as to change the perverse will and raging passions of men.
Conversion is a work comparable to the making of a world. . . . .
It is a work indeed. God is at work where the message of the Gospel is preached. It is His message concerning His Son and the salvation He purchased on our behalf. It goes forth in His power. Notice several important truths about this Gospel.