Christ.—We read in 1 John v. 11, 12, "God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in
I. SOME THINGS THAT DEPEND ON WHAT WE DO WITH JESUS CHRIST
the one, but a living faith in Jesus Christ had brought joy to the other in the midst of her overly and misfortune.
4. In the fourth place, our obtaining eternal life depends entirely on what we do with Jesus Christ.—We read in 1 John v. 11, 12, "God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life." What stranger ideas even Christian people have about how to obtain eternal life. If I could come to some of you to-night and say, "How do you think people get eternal life?" some of you would answer something like this, "If a man leads a very good life, and fights against sin, and overcomes it, and is faithful in his service to God, at the end of a life of struggling and victory and service perhaps God will give him eternal life." Thank God, that is not the doctrine of that Book. The doctrine of that Book is, that when God sent His Son Jesus Christ down to this world, He sent eternal life in Him, and the moment you take Christ you have the eternal life that is in Him; and if the worst outcast in London should here and now take Christ, the moment he did it he would have eternal life.