The Grenada sentinel., 1903-09-26

heart does not f04llzO tho p0r1l OF the
sinking sand. but repsntance' openI
the eyes OF tho soul to its desperate
and lost condition In sin. God be
merciful to me. = sinner" must be the
cry. Repentance sincere and genuinO
repentance-is the condition OF heart
which will break the letters which
bind you to the present position on the
sand and will make you willing and
eaxer to get upon the sure Foundation
OF Jesus Christ. And faith IL the
cable which will draw you and plant
your feet upon the Rock. Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt
be saved!" And II your faith is small.
very small, you may come to Jesus a
did that father long. long years ago.
and cry: Lord. believe: help Thou
mine unbelief." All. how great Ia Gods
mercy! It is able to reach to the depths
Of the mire Of sin. and place the feet
upon the Eternal Rock. All. how great
is Gods patience as He waits for sinful
and lost man to turn from death to life.
from darkness to light! He hears the
faintest cry. His hand is outstretched
to save
PUT what does salvation through
u Christ mean? It means a new
heart and changed life. The old heart
has desires away from God. That is
the reason Jesus told Nicodemus that
he must be born again. But the new
heart which God creates for the be-
lever in Christ has q new and larger
capacity for God. Gods Word declares
that III any man be in Christ. (that is.
il a man by repentance and faith has
become established upon Christ the
Foundation) he is a new creature; old
things are passed away; behold. all
things are become new" The old man
with its affections and lusts cannot be-
come established upon Christ the
Foundation. II the rich young man
could have come into the Kingdom of
God dragging his riches with him, he
would gladly have come. And If many
a soul. which is clinging to the old life,
to its ambitions and its sins. could bring
all those unholy things with 1t. it would
quickly come. But the life established
upon Christ Jesus must be the cleansed
life. The new heart is the possession
of the wise man whose life rests upon
the sure Foundation. The foolish man
without foundation knows no such pos
session. The new heart is part of the
glorious transformation which God
brings to pass in the life when it turns
to the Rock Christ Jesus for salvation
and refuge. How appropriate it is that
upon the only sure Foundation God
places the man with a new heart. The
old heart is ''deceitful above all things
and desperately wicked" but the new
heart which God creates is the center
OF the Divine life which Is planted there
and which God desires to have grow
until it has attained unto the fullness
of the stature Of Christ. The Founda-
ton for a purer and larger and better
lie. This is the building which it 10
Gods purpose you shall place upon the
Foundation He has laid for you.
THIS means the changed life. God
! never intended the Christian to go
on living the old life of sin. The
Foundation is worthy of more honor
able superstructure. Right here is the
battle-ground of the Christian. The
man with Christ as his Foundation is
the man who has conflict. There must
be a striving to put OF the old man
and to put on the new. The changed
life is the superstructure which graces
and honOrs the Foundation. Christ 1t
Is the gold and silver of a pure and
holy life. it is the precious stones of
loving faithful service which the Chris
ttan must build upon the Foundation.
Paul goes on to declare that "every
mans work shall be made manifest;
for the day shall declare it, because it
shall be revealed by fire; and the fire
shall try every mans work of what sort
it isl If it be gold and silver and pre-
cious stones, 1t will abide. but If wood
or hay or stubble. it will suffer loss,
and the soul will be saved 80 as by
fire." God intends every life which is
founded upon the Rock. Christ Jesus,
shall be the changed life Would you
d1shonor Christ by clinging to the old
life. by seeking delight and satisfac-
ton in the old paths and old in
dulgences? Oh. what a low plane many
OF us live upon. We claim Christ as
Saviour, but we do not live as though
we were saved. We call ourselves
Christian, but We cannot be distin-
gu1shed by our conduct from the chill
dren of the world. We claim safety on
the Foundation. but most of our time
Is spent down ON the sand with the
man without any foundation. No won
der reproach is brought upon the name
of Christ. and the people of the world
are but slowly brought to realize the
peril Of no foundation.
cOD calls the man In this life who
~ IL without foundation foolish, out
when the day of grace has passed and
the, soul passes on into eternity, He
calls him lost man. Now. white the
day Of grace brings salvation nigh.
He seeks to have the man on flne sand