ked at that. The Lord
of Glory coming down and saying: "I will grant to you to sit on My
throne, even as I sit on My Father's throne, if you will just
overcome." Isn't it worth a struggle? How many will fight for a crown
that is going to fade away! Yet we are to be placed above the angels,
above the archangels, above the seraphim, above the cherubim, away up,
upon the throne with Himself, and there we shall be forever with Him.
May God put strength into every one of us to fight the battle of life,
so that we may sit with Him on His throne. When Frederick of Germany
was dying, his own son would not have been allowed to sit with him on
the throne, nor to have let anyone else sit there with him. Yet we are
told that we are joint heirs with Jesus Christ, and that we are to sit
with Him in glory!
And now, the last I like best of all: "_He that overcometh shall
inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My son_."
My dear friends, isn't that a high calling? I used to have my
Sabbath-school children sing--"I want to be an angel": but I have not
done so for years. We shall be above angels: we shall be sons of God.
Just see what a kingdom we shall come into: we shall inherit all
things! Do you ask me how much I am worth? I don't know. The
Rothschilds cannot compute their wealth. They don't know how many
millions they own. That is my condition--I haven't the slightest idea
how much I am worth. God has no poor children. If we overcome we shall
inherit all things.
Oh, my dear friends, what an inheritance! Let us then get the victory,
through Jesus Christ our Lord and Master.
RESULTS OF TRUE REPENTANCE.
I want to call your attention to what true repentance leads to. I am
not addressing the unconverted only, because I am one of those who
believe that there is a good deal of repentance to be done by the
Church before much good will be accomplished in the world. I firmly
believe that the low standard of Christian living is keeping a good
many in the world and in their sins. When the ungodly see that
Christian people do not repent, you cannot expect them to repent and
turn away from their sins. I have repented ten thousand times more
since I knew Christ than ever before; and I think most Christians have
some things to repent of.
So now I want to preach to Christians as well as to the unconverted;
to myself as well as to one who has never accepted Christ as his
Savior.
There are five things that flow out
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