Now, poor troubled soul, can't you see in this, God's own picture of a sinner's salvation? His claims as to your sin demanded "a broken neck", that is, righteous judgment upon your guilty head; the only alternative being the death of a divinely-approved substitute. Now you could not find the provision to meet your case; but in the person of His beloved Son, God Himself provided the Lamb. "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world" (John 1:29).

Onward to Calvary He went, "as a lamb to the slaughter," (Isaiah 53:7) and there and then He "once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God" (1 Peter 3:18). He "was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification" (Romans 4:25). So that God does not abate one jot of His righteous, holy claims against sin when He justifies (i.e., clears from all charge of guilt) the ungodly sinner who believes in Jesus (Romans 3:26). Blessed be God for such a saviour, such a salvation!

"Dost thou believe on the Son of God?"

"Well," you reply, "I have, as a condemned sinner, found in Him one that I can safely trust. I do believe in Him."

Then I can tell you that the full value of His sacrifice and death, as God estimates it, He makes as good to you as though you had accomplished it all yourself. Oh, what a wondrous way of salvation is this! Is it not great, and grand, and Godlike, worthy of God Himself - the gratification of His own heart of love, the glory of His precious Son, and the salvation of a sinner, all bound up together? What a bundle of grace and glory! Blessed be the God

and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has so ordered it that His own beloved Son should do all the work, and get all the praise, and that you and I, poor, guilty things, believing on Him, should not only get the blessing, but enjoy the blissful company of the Blessed for ever and ever. "O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together" (Psalm 34:3).

But perhaps your eager inquiry may be, "How is it that since I do really distrust self and self-work, and wholly rely upon Christ and Christ's work, that I have not the full certainty of my salvation?" You say, "If my feelings warrant my saying that I am saved on day, they are pretty sure to blight every hope the next and I am left like a ship storm-tossed, without any anchorage whatever." Ah! there lies your mistake. Did you ever hear of a captain trying to find anchorage by fastening his anchor inside the ship? Never. Always outside.

It may be that you are quite clear that it is Christ's death alone that gives SAFETY; but you think that it is what you feel that gives you certainty. Now, again, take your Bible, for I wish you to see from God's Word how He gives a man

THE KNOWLEDGE OF SALVATION

Before you turn to the verse which I shall ask you very carefully to look at, which speaks of how a believer is to know that he has eternal life, let me quote it in the distorted way in which man's imagination often puts it. "These happy feelings have I given unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life." Now open your Bible, and while you compare this with God's blessed and unchanging Word, may He