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God Chose to Send Jesus
"I have heard you preach three times, sir, and I neither care for you nor your preaching unless you can tell me why did God permit sin," said a young man to Mr. North.
"I will do that with pleasure," was the immediate reply, - "Because He chose to do so."
The young man, apparently taken by surprise, stood speechless; and Mr. North again replied, "Because He chose to allow it, and," he added, "if you continue to question and cavil at God's dealings, and vainly puffed up by your carnal mind, strive to be wise above what is written, I will tell you something more that God will do, - He will some day put you into hell-fire. It is vain for you to strive with your Maker - you cannot resist Him; and neither your opinion of His dealings, nor your blasphemous expression of them, will in the least lessen the pain of your everlasting damnation, which, I again tell you, will most certainly be your portion if you go on in your present spirit. There were such questioners as you in the Apostle Paul's time, and how did the apostle answer them? 'Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God?'"
"Is there such a text as that in the Bible?" interrupted the young man.
"Yes, there is," was the reply, "in the ninth chapter of Romans, and I recommend you go home and read that chapter; and after you have read it, and seen there how God claims for Himself the right to do whatever He chooses, without permitting the thing formed to say to him that formed it, 'Why hast Thou made me thus?' - remember that, besides permitting sin, there is another thing God has chosen to do - God chose to send Jesus. Of His own free and sovereign grace God gave His only begotten Son to die for sinners in their place; so that though they are sinners, and have done things worthy of death, not one of them shall ever be cast into hell for his sins who will accept Jesus as his only Saviour, and believe in Him, and rest in His Word. I have no time to say more to you now: others are waiting to see me. Go home, attend to what I have told you, and may God by His Holy Spirit bless it for Christ's sake."
A few days later the young man went to see Mr. North. He said, "Do you remember the man who asked you 'why did God permit sin?'"
"Yes, perfectly."
"Well, sir, I am that young man; and you said that God permitted sin because He chose to do so, and
you told me to go home and read the ninth chapter of Romans; and also that God chose to send Jesus
to die for such as I am; and I did, sir, what you told me, and afterwards I fell down at God's feet
and asked Him to forgive my sins, because Jesus died for me, and He did. Now I am happy - oh! so
happy; and though the devil still comes sometimes to tempt me with my old thoughts, and to ask me
what reasons I have to think God has forgiven me, I have always managed to get him away by telling
him that I do not want to judge things by my own reason but by God's Word and that for Christ's sake
God chooses to pardon me."
His countenance was radiant with joy and peace.
Dear reader, the first lesson a poor sinner has to learn, is to trust in the Lord, and not in his own understanding; to trust God, not only for what he does understand, and for what is explained, but for what he does not understand, and for what is not explained. This is faith, and such faith honors God and saves the soul. This is receiving the kingdom of God as a little child; and let us ever remember that it is written (and the Scripture cannot be broken), that unless we receive the kingdom of God as a little child, we shall in no wise enter therein.
"He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool." And again, "He that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief." "He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy."(Proverbs 28:26, 14; 29:1). Oh, won't you come to the Saviour now? - tomorrow may be too late. "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of Salvation."(2 Corinthians 6:2). "Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts." (Hebrews 3:15).
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."(John 3:16-18).
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