3. An attention to the blessed truth which our text implies —
[When our Lord says, " If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins," who does not see what a glorious promise is implied in it ; that, if we do believe in him, we shall not die in our sins? Yes, this blessed truth is declared throughout the whole Scriptures. Hear what the Apostle said to the jailor. Under a dread of God's wrath, the con- vinced sinner cried, " Sirs, what must I do to be saved ?" and the answer which the Apostle gave was clear and full : " Be- lieve in the Lord Jesus Christ ; and thou shalt be saved p." The same say I to you : " Be it known unto you, men and brethren, that through the Lord Jesus Christ is preached unto you the remission of sins : and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be jus- tified by the law of Moses q." O ! it is a blessed truth, that " there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus1 !" Their iniquities are blotted out, as "a morning cloud s:" they stand before God "without spot or blemish';" "nor does God himself behold any iniquity in them u." Believe, then, in Christ, and " live unto him ; so, whether living or dying, ye shall be the Lord's x."]
p Acts xvi. 31. i Acts xiii. 38, 39. r Rom. viii. 1.
s Isai. xliv. 22. l Epli. v. 27. u Numb, xxiii. 21.
x Rom. xiv. 8.