The Third Angel's Message (1893) - Alonzo T. Jones

of life is in Him? Eternal life only. Then when I
have Him, I have the life which is His, and that is
eternal life, just as He says. But, as Brother Haskell
has brought before us in his lessons, we cannot
have that life without yielding up this one. In doing
that we meet Jesus Christ. That was the lesson
today, don't you see? Yield up this life and you will
get one that is a great deal better. Now is the time.
But if I cling to this life, when it is gone, what have
I left? [Congregation: "Nothing."]
Therefore the man or woman who has only this
life to start with, need not start with the third
angel's message, because when the test comes that
this life is at stake, he will stick to it. That's the
danger. A man can't go through what the third
angel's message is to go through, with only this life
that he has. He can't do it. Because it is all he has,
and he will stick to it, when it is brought into
jeopardy. But he will let this life go, count it worth
nothing and take that life that measures with the
life of God, that life which is the life of God, will
have a life that can never get into jeopardy. That
man is safe. He can go wherever the message calls
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