'Note the business on hand—it is that Jesus should be King over you. ...Jesus must be King or He cannot be your Savior. Thousands of people are quite willing to be saved by Christ, but when it comes to the first step, namely, that Jesus must be accepted as Ruler, Lawgiver, Master, King, and Lord, then they start back and reject eternal life—
“Yet know (nor of the terms
complain),
Where Jesus comes, He comes to reign;
To reign, and with no partial sway;
Thoughts must be slain that disobey.”
'...And here is the point, if Jesus is to reign, the old king must go down. It is of no use trying to have [Sin and Christ] on the throne at the same time. It is impossible to serve sin and to serve Christ. Favorite and constitutional sins must be relinquished. I know many persons who say that they are under concern of soul whose sincerity I more than question, because they continue in known sin and yet they complain that they cannot find peace. How can they?...
'...The main point,
however, is to do it—really and at once make Christ Jesus your King. And to
this end we must believe in Him or trust Him. It is this trusting Jesus Christ
which is the essential point, for out of it grows the repentance which renounces
every false way. When a man fully and honestly trusts Christ with his soul, he
is enabled from that time forward to hate the sin which he once loved and so he
wins the mastery over it. He finds a joy in submitting to the holy reign of
Jesus because he has already trusted Him and believes that he is saved. But
alas! many of you do not believe..."
-- from his sermon
entitled, "Now Then Do It"
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