What will God do with a sinner in his sins? Beloved friend, what will He do with you, if you are
there? Mark_oh, mark it well!_you have to stand before God. You may defer it; you may put
it off; you may refuse to think about it now; you may refuse to take God’s sentence home. You
may say, "Oh well, I shall have plenty of company, if I am lost. There will be a good many lost
with me." That will not help you when you stand before God. You will find yourself an individual
soul_alone, and not in company_or I might say, only in company with Him whose eye will read
you through and through and expose you to yourself, naked and deformed, and In your own real
condition. There will be no talking about your company then. There will be no thought about your
neighbor. You will be a solitary sinner before God, with only His eye upon you. If you stand
before Him thus now, you will find there is mercy for you. If you stand before Him then, you will
find it everlasting destruction. This is the acceptable tune; behold, now is the day of salvation.
Now!_now, dear friend. And how long is that "now"? Every pulse-beat, every tick of the clock,
is a "now". You don’t know how many of them are left you. Friend, there is salvation for you to
take hold of as instantaneously as that, because God knows what your need is. There is a rope out
for souls that are drowning, that they may clutch on the instant. That is what you want. Blessed
be God, there is salvation for you now.

People argue that you must do all you can to be a Christian, and so be saved. You take yourself
out of God’s loving hands of mercy, which are longing to take hold of you:that is all. You make
Him act in righteousness against you instead of in righteousness for you. God does not save in that
way. God does not justify people as Christians, church members, and all that. He "justifies the
ungodly"_the people who do NOT work for it- "To him that WORKETH NOT, but believeth on
Him that justifieth the UNGODLY, his faith is counted for righteousness" (Rom. 4:5).

Do you think God means what He says? Do you think God does what He says? God "justifies the
ungodly." Do you believe that? "Oh, yes," people say, "we believe that." Well, what are you
going to do? "Going to do the best we can." Is not that it?_the best we can! Have we to do the
best we can to be ungodly? If God justifies the ungodly, must not you be the sort of person that
God justifies? Ah, if you look at yourself aright, you will find you are ungodly enough
already_ungodly enough to be justified. If you believe that, what do you do? Nothing!_because
you believe. If you want to do something, you do not believe He "justifies the ungodly. If you do
believe He justifies the ungodly, you do nothing. Christ died for sinners, nobody else. He did not
die for good sinners, or for the better class of sinners. He found one man who was the very chief
of sinners, and He could not leave him unsaved. He took up that man, the chief of sinners as he
was. He could not let him go. Because, if He let the chief of sinners go unsaved, people might
have said that there was a limit to the power of the blood of Christ, and that there was one man,
at any rate, that the blood of Christ was not sufficient to save. So God took up the chief of sinners,
and made an apostle of him. He wanted him to speak in men’s ears and hearts:"There! that is the
sort of sinners I am saving." Those are the sort of sin that the blood of Christ washes off. Come
now, and put in your claim as a sinner to the precious blood of Christ, and you will receive the
remission of your sins.