The Lord's Coming. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. II

MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS of C.H.M.
Miscellaneous Writings of
Volume II LOIZEAUX BROTHERS New York
FIRST EDITION 1898 TENTH PRINTING 1960 LOIZEAUX BROTHERS, Inc., PUBLISHERS A Nonprofit Organization, Devoted to the Lord's Work and to the Spread of His Truth 19 West 21st Street, New York 10, N. Y. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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How much is wrapped up in these few words, God for us! They form one of those marvelous chains of three links so frequently found in Scripture. We have God linked on to us by that precious little word for. This secures every thing, for time and eternity. There is not a single thing within the entire range of a creature's necessities that are not included in the brief but comprehensive sentence which forms the heading of this paper. If God be for us, then it follows, of necessity—blessed necessity—that neither our sins, nor our iniquities, nor our guilt, nor our ruined nature, nor Satan, nor the world, nor any other creature can possibly stand in the way of our present peace and our everlasting felicity and glory. God can dispose of all—has disposed of them, in such a way as to illustrate His own glory, and magnify His holy name, throughout the wide universe, forever and ever. All praise and adoration be to the eternal Trinity!
It may be, however, that the reader feels disposed, at the very outset, to inquire how he is to know his place amongst the us of our precious thesis. This, truly, is a most momentous question. Our eternal weal or woe hangs upon the answer. How, then, are we to know that God is for us? In reply to this most weighty question, we shall seek, by God's grace, to furnish the reader with five substantial proofs that God is for us, in all our need, our guilt, our misery, and our danger—for us, spite of all that we are, and all that we have done—for us, although there is no reason whatever, so far as we are concerned, why He should be for us, but every reason why He should be against us.