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Home Truths, Miscellaneous Addresses and Tracts
Home Truths Miscellaneous Addresses and Tracts Author:John Charles Ryle General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1859 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 7. Think again, that Christ is able to save to the uttermost, notwithstanding the terrors of the judgment day. Mark how St. Paul rests upon that in the 8th chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, in that wonderful conclusion to that wonderful chapter -- a chapter unrivalled in the Word of God for privilege, beginning with "no condemnation" and concluding with " no separation! " Observe how he dwells upon Christ's intercession in connexion with the judgment of the last day. After saying, " Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect ? It is God that justifieth," he goes on -- " Who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. " The thought of Christ's intercession, no less than His dying and rising again, was one ground of the Apostle Paul's confidence in looking forward to the great day. His strong consolation was the recollection of a living Christ. That consolation is for us as well as for St. Paul. We have an ever-living, ever-interceding Priest. Christ is not dead but alive. 8. Think, lastly, and above all, that Christ is able to save to the uttermost throughout all eternity. " I am he," He says, " that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore." (Rev. i. 18.) The root of the believer never dies, and the branches, therefore, shall never die. Christ being " raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him." (Rom. vi. 9.) He lives, that all who trust in Him may receive honour and glory to all eternity; and because He lives, His believing people s...« less