The True Remedy! # 1

The True Remedy! # 1

Nothing is so important when the body is badly diseased - as to procure and apply the right remedy in good time. For lack of this, many have suffered long, and at length died. It was not because there was no remedy - but because they did not know it; or knowing, did not apply it. Just so is it, in reference to spiritual things. We are surrounded by the spiritually diseased, the suffering, and the dying - but there is a remedy! Some imaging that there is none; others are led away by living advertisements, a few know and employ the true remedy. Let us look at some DISORDERS - and then point out the TRUE REMEDY for them.

1. There is sin. This is the root and cause of all other diseases and sufferings. No sin - no disease, no suffering, either in this world or in eternity. But even sin, the root of all diseases - is not incurable. Sinners have been cured. Sinners may be cured. It would be infidelity to say of any sinner, where the gospel comes - that his case was desperate. We know of no desperate case - if the true remedy is employed. 

That remedy is the blood of Jesus. Jesus died that we may live. He shed His blood to heal our souls. This is the true balm of Gilead. This is the sovereign catholicon (universal remedy). It is placed within our reach in the everlasting gospel. All we have to do is to fix the eye upon it, place confidence in it, and pray the Holy Spirit to apply it.

We must look away from everything else. We must fix the eye intently upon it. We must exercise a steady confidence in it. We must entreat the Holy Spirit to sprinkle it on our hearts.

And, as soon as ever this is the case...the guilt of sin is removed, the power of sin is undermined, the love of sin is destroyed, and we are perfectly and eternally delivered from all the penal consequences of sin!

There is no remedy for sin - but the blood of Jesus! And that is an infallible remedy! It was never applied in vain - it never can be. It cleanses us from all sin. It justifies us perfectly before God. But to prove its efficacy - we must give up all other medicines! Religious services, sacraments, prayers, praises, priests, and presbyters - all must be renounced, and the blood of Jesus alone must become the sole object of our trust, the sole ground of our hope, and our sole plea for pardon and peace at the throne of grace.

This is the true remedy for both sin and sinners. It is exactly suited to them, for its healing properties are infinite and eternal! It is to be obtained gratuitously, without money and without price - and its efficacy may be proved a thousand times over!

Reader, if you would obtain a full pardon of all sin, perfect peace in the presence of God, and an unquestionable title to everlasting glory - then exercise simple faith in the blood of Jesus, and these invaluable blessings are yours, and yours forever. This is the only true remedy!

2. Another soul-disorder is FEAR, slavish fear! This springs either from guilt on the conscience, ignorance of the gospel, or the lack of simple faith in God, as a covenant God. The true remedy for fear, is faith in God -in God as revealed in Jesus; as pledged to us by His precious promises; as at peace with us, through the perfect work of His beloved Son.

"Let not your heart be troubled, you believe in God, believe also in Me," said Jesus. If I believe that God is love; that He has received full satisfaction at the hands of His Son for all my sins; that He will rejoice over me to do me good; that He will never leave me, nor forsake me; that He will cause all things to work together for my welfare - then how can I fear? What shall I fear? And, as a disciple of Jesus, how can I believe the gospel, the glorious good news - if I do not believe these things? They are spoken to all believers. They are the common property of every member of the living Church of God. Every slavish fear, then - must arise from taking the eye off the great atonement, or from not understanding the everlasting gospel, or from unbelief!

And the true remedy for slavish fear is to trust simply and entirely to what Christ has done for acceptance with God, to keep the promises of grace continually before the mind, and simply believe what God has said, because God has said it. He said it...because He meant it, because He wished us to believe it, and because He was willing to give us strong and everlasting consolation.

~James Smith~

(continued with # 2)