WILT THOU BE MADE WHOLE?

I pray you to remember that it is yours to will, for Christ said to the impotent man "wilt thou be made whole?" Thou canst not make thyself whole, but thou canst will and wish to be made whole. God's Holy Spirit has given to many of you to will and to do according to His good pleasure. We do not get saved against our will, God drags nobody to heaven by the ears. There must be in you a willing mind consenting to the work of sovereign grace, and if it be there I want you to exercise it straight away, as Christ wished this man to exercise it, "wilt thou be made whole?" hast thou any wish that way? any desire or longing for healing? I want to stir this fire and make it burn, and if there be only a spark of desire I would breathe on it to make it into a great flame. Paul said "to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not." I believe that there are many who have the will to be saved, God be thanked for that.
"Wilt thou be made whole?" The question is not, "wilt thou be put into yonder pool?" but "wilt thou be made whole?" the question is not "wilt thou take this medicine? wilt thou that I should do this or that for thee?" but "wilt thou be made whole?" Have you come to this, that you are willing to be saved in God's way, in Christ's way? One says " I want to have a dream " dear soul, do not want any dreams, they are only dreams, another says "I want to see a vision." my dear friend, there is nothing in the plan of salvation about seeing visions. "I want to hear a voice," says one, well, hear my voice then, and may God The Holy Ghost make you to hear the voice of His Word through me!-"but I want"- oh! yes, you want, you know not what you want, like many a silly child that has it's fads and it's fancies, and it's whims and wishes. Oh that all were willing to be saved by the simple plan of believe and live! If this be God's way, who art thou that He should make a new way for thee? But dear friends do not set up your own notion about how you ought to be saved. Can you find any two people who were saved in the same way? God does not make converts as men make steel pens, a gross in a box all the same. Nay, nay, but in each case there is a living man created, and every living man, and every living animal, every living plant is somewhat different from every other of it's kind and you must not look for unifomity in the work of regeneration. "Wilt thou be made whole?" Come dost thou desire pardon for sin? Dost thou long for a new heart, and a right spirit? If so, leave off disputing as to how thou art to get them, and do what Christ tells thee to do.

"SO"

GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD. That love of God is a very wonderful thing, especially when we see it set upon a lost, ruined, guilty world. What was there that God should love it? no fragrant flower grew in that arid desert, enmity towards Him, hatred of His truth, disregard for His word, unthankfulness, these were the thorns and briars which covered the waste land, no desirable thing blossomed there. Yet, God loved the world says the text so loved it that even the writer of the book of John could not tell us how much, but so greatly, so divinely did He love it that He gave His Son, His only Son to redeem the world and to gather out from it a people to His praise.
Whence came that love? Not from anything outside of God Himself, He loves because it is His nature to do so. God is Love. As I have already said nothing upon the face of the earth could have merited His love, though there was much to merit His displeasure. This stream of love flows from it's own secret source in the eternal Deity and it owes nothing at all to any earth-born rain or rivulet, it springs from beneath the everlasting throne. God loved because He would love. He has so much love that He must needs let it flow forth to a world perishing by it's own wilful sin. And when it flowed forth it was so deep, so wide, so strong, that even inspiration could not compute it's measure and therefore The Holy Spirit gave us that great little word SO and left us to attempt it's measurement, according as we perceive the love of God more and more.

DO AS THOU HAST SAID

God's promises were never meant to be tossed aside like waste paper, He intended that they be used. God's gold is not miser's money it is minted to be traded with.
Nothing pleases Our Lord better than to see His promises being put into circulation, He loves to see His children bringing them up to Him and saying "Lord do as Thou hast said."
We glorify God when we plead His promises.
Do you think that God will be any the poorer for giving you the riches He has promised? Do you dream that His holiness will be any the less for sharing it with you? will He be any less pure for washing you from your sins? He has said come now and let us reason together saith The Lord, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Faith lays hold of the promise of pardon, it goes straight to the throne of grace and pleads "Lord here is the promise, do as Thou has said." He will reply "be it unto thee even as thou wilt."
When the child of God grasps the promise and hastens to the throne of grace with it and cries
"Lord I have nothing to recommend me but this " Thou hast said it" his desire shall be granted.
Our heavenly Banker delights to cash His own notes.
Never let the promise rust. Draw the sword of promise out of its scabbard and use it with holy violence.
Don't think that God will be troubled by your importunity in reminding Him of His promises, He loves to hear the loud outcries of needy souls, it is His delight to bestow favors He is more ready to hear than you are to ask.
The sun is not weary with shining, nor the fountain with flowing. It is God's nature to give,
He will keep His promise. Therefore go at once to Him with this petition "Do as thou hast said."