The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-12-09

and he said. I'll go and present this
case to him.
Lets look at the stages OF faith.
First, this man sought Jesus help.
He was days journey from where
Jesus was and yet the nobleman
went this days journey to be face
to face with Jesus, and tell him what
was on his heart Isn't that reason
able that Jesus should be sought?
Can the sinner say, III fold my
hands till Jesus drags me into the
kingdom?' You will wait always If
you do. You are to come to Jesus and
seek his help. This is just as reason
able as 1t is for a farmer to plant
his grain and cultivate it. Suppose he
says TN not do anything, III not
plant or cultivate; God has all pow
err God Is a God of means in the
spiritual as we'll as in the material
Jesus and then when he came, he
told Jesus what he wanted-thats
prayer how important and earnest
is his prayer. Jesus said, Except ye
see signs and wonders, We will not
believe, for the nobleman had be-
sought Jesus that he would come
down and heal his SON And Jesus
said You are debating to me how
10 heal your son-you say, go home
with me, come down with me. The
nobleman saw the point. Jesus said
let me save him without your tell
ing me how?' Right here is the dif-
ficulty of every sinner in the world
of just letting Jesus save him. The
first question an interested soul asks
is What must | do to be saved?' The
last thing a sinner does is to just
stop his doing and let Jesus do. Jesus
said to the nobleman, I'll not take
the case till you say, do it your way.
There never was a sinner saved VINO
did not put his case in Jesus hands
and trust all to him.
Again we are told The man be-
lieved the word that Jesus had spo-
ken unto him. What was the word?
Go thy way; thy son liveth.' The
man believed this. Right here sin
ner is saved It's the taking of Jesus
at his word and closing in with that.
Isn't it glorious? And yet right
there is the sinners difficulty. The
crisis for the human soul, The thing
to do is simply to surrender your
case to Jesus-to receive Jesus. All
your good deeds and kind works
won't blot out a single sin. You'll
never get salvation any way in the
Jesus. Jesus told the nobleman if he
would put the case in his hands he
save the son and he believed the
word. What is the word? o, thous-
and OF his promises come before us.
Take this one Him that cometh to
me | will in no wise cast out There
is enough gospel in this verse to save
every man in the world. 'WhosoVer
will, let him take of the water of
life freely Commit thy way unto
the Lord and he shall bring il to
pass. Sinner, you never could, in all
the ages, blot out one sin But when
the sinner surrenders, he is saved
Christ hath once suffered for sins
the just for the unjust, that he might
bring us to God.
Christ paid your debt by his
death on the cross He says, IN go
your security, if you'll surrender
Everyone has a catalogue of sins
sins of omission, sins of commission,
sins of speech, sins of secret thought. !
But Jesus says IN take your place
set you free. I'll be your sin bear
ar Is there another such gospel? |
Salvation is of the Lord by the pow
er of Jesus Christ. VIII you take
Jesus? Other refuge have ] none
hangs my helpless soul on thee, nor
do ] want any other refuge. AS the
nobleman went on his way home, the
servants met him and told him the
boy was alive and when he inquired
what hour he began to mend they
said at the seventh hour the fever
left him And the father knew that