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Please regard this as a personal appeal. You must meet God. Are you ready? In comparison with this question all others sink into utter insignificance; before it all other problems pale. You may be successful in business, brilliant in your profession, and healthy in your body and mind; you may be religious and respected by your friends, but "what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" (Matthew 16:26). This is the solemn unanswered question of Scripture.
To be ready to meet God requires a new birth. Have you been born again? This is more than success, more than health, more than religion, more than respectability. These may all be present and the essential new birth unknown. "Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3). This statement is unequivocal. It cannot be evaded. It was uttered by the Lord Jesus Christ. The necessity for the new birth arises from the fact that as born into this world we all spring from a sinful stock, we all are sinners. This effectually bars fellowship with God. Sin is contrary to the nature of God. He hates it. He is "of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness" (Habakkuk 1:13).
While God hates sin, He loves sinners, whether they tread the clean or filthy side of the broad road. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). God's judgment on sin fell upon Christ on the Cross, and there is cleansing and forgiveness for all who believe on Him. "As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name" (John 1:12...
