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« on: March 24, 2015, 10:42:11 am »

Who Can Come To Jesus?
Jesus said, “Com unto Me.”  That is a great invitation, but He qualified it with, “all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”  This means that not everyone can come.  So who can and who cannot come?  Let us see, for this is of supreme importance to your eternal soul.
Although plenty of people know how a Christian is supposed to live, few there are that actually perform the duties of the Christian faith.  There is much external religion in show, but there is little true religion in heart and life.  If Christianity consisted in being called by that name, in being baptized, in going to church, and saying you believe in Jesus, then many there are who will be in heaven.  However, if Christianity consists in an inward principle, a changed heart, a new birth, a putting off the old man and putting on the new, becoming a new creature, where old thing pass away and behold, all things become new, if it consists in repentance from sin to faith in God, and walking in newness of life, if it consists in being burdened for your sins and heavy laden with the guilt and shame of them before you will come to Christ, then, oh, how few there are with a share in this spiritual state!  How many there are that pride themselves with only the outward show of religion, and how few there are that actually possess a new heart with God’s laws written thereon.

To show you who can come to Jesus I must first show you who cannot come.
First, he who thinks that he is good enough cannot come.  If you think that you will be let into heaven because you have not been that bad, if you think you are basically a good person and do not deserve hell, if you think you will probably be saved because you try hard to live a good life, you are not burdened with your sin, and you cannot come to Jesus.  Those whose righteousness is good enough in their own eyes do not think they need the salvation Jesus offers.  He offers forgiveness to sinners who are helpless, in need of a complete salvation.  They think they are not so bad as to deserve hell, so they have no sense of the guilt and misery of their own sin.  It was just a bite of fruit that plunged the entire human race into sin and death, but Adam and Eve bit that fruit in rebellion.  It was not the size of the bite, it was the rebellion that brought God’s wrath against them.  Your sins are not small, though they may be so in your eyes.  When done from a heart of rebellion against a holy and loving God, they could not be greater.  All of God’s wrath rises up against the rebellion of man.  If hell could open up before you, who think you are not so bad a sinner.  If you could see the coming fury of God who will cast out all rebels into darkness and eternal torments, if you could see the results of you sins you have sinned, if you could see that there is not a good man upon the earth, then you would not think so highly of your righteousness anymore, you would cry out to God for the mercy he offers to burdened sinners.  So if you think you are good enough, you are not burdened and weary of your sins, for you have not taken the time to consider them and their guilt.  “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”  What took Jesus a cross and the blood of God to do in paying the wages of sin, you think you will accomplish with a few good works.  In your pride, you think to do what only Jesus could do by His death.  He paid the price for sin to become a Savior of sinners, you would do a few good deeds and erase all your sins without death.  This is impossible, and shows that you do not feel the weight of your sins.  If you were weary of them because you could not get rid of them, you would see that only Jesus can help you.  That is why He said, “Come, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.”

Second, you are not burdened with your sin, and cannot come, if you continue in the practice of them, delighting in them, and following the sinful diversions of the world.  Those who can still enjoy their sin, who can go on with delight to the beer parties, the filthy movies, the clubs, who can excuse themselves from church to enjoy their leisure, who can joke about the preacher and the holy people of God, who can follow the worldly pleasures, show they are not burdened for their sin, and are not laboring under its load.  How will you ever be burdened for your sin if you do not want to consider them?  If preaching of hell, judgment, sin, and guilt is wearisome to you, how can you ever get burdened for your sin?  To stop your laughter long enough to feel the guilt of sin is a great agony to you.  You know that if you consider these things, you would come to the place where you must give them up.  You must leave your vain pleasure and follow Christ.  Yet I ask, will you not lose them all in hell anyway?  There is no laughter there.  It is all sadness and grief.  There are no parties in hell.  There are no sports or comedies.  What good are they doing you, except to silence your conscience and pacify you, hastening your own destruction?  Then, there will be no joy in the remembrance of them.  In hell, you will wish you had prayed, went to church, read your Bible, warned others of God’s hatred of sin, encouraged others to a holy life, but it will be too late.  Then you would give all the world for one offer of mercy, one sermon about God’s grace to sinners, but none will be left. The day of mercy is today, we do not know what tomorrow will bring.  If you continue in the delight of sinful diversions and vanity, you show that you have never been burdened and heavy laded with your sins.  You show that you would rather have sin than Christ.  He says come, but you cannot hear Him, because your sins drown out the sound of His still small voice.  If you would stop and consider the end of the path you are on, and the heavy wrath and fire of God it will bring, then you would realize that God has done you a great benefit in dying to get your attention, to pay for your sins, and in rising from the dead to give you new life apart from those sinful diversions.

Now we proceed quickly to tell you who can come.  Those who feel the weight of their sins can come.  Those who are burdened and cannot find rest in anything this world offers, those who sin with anguish of mind because they know how hateful sin is to God, those who see that the wrath of God is heavy against them, those who know themselves to be guilty sinners, those who labor under the weight of constant sinning and see that, in all they do, they offend God, these are heavy laden with their sin and can come to Jesus.  All you who do not have any hope of being saved by your own efforts, all you who cannot continue in the sinful practices of the world and be happy, all you who find no happiness offered to you anywhere in this life, all you who know that your sins are ready to sink you into hell, can come to Jesus and find rest.

Jesus promised and assured us that if we come to Him, He will give us rest.  His promise is to all who labor under the load of sin, rich and poor, old and young.  Come and find rest.  This rest is from God, not from the world.  The world cannot match it, and the world cannot take it away.  What will you do?  What will your answer be?  Will you come now and find rest, rest for the weary, the burdened, the loaded down with sin.  Jesus has paid the full price for your sins and, by faith in His name, God will count this payment as your own.  Your sins will be covered by the loving cross of Calvary and the blood of Christ, and you will have Christ Himself come to live in your soul and give you rest, peace, and eternal life.  Will you come?
 
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