_. He was not living in
uncertainty. He said: "I have a desire to depart and be with Christ"
(Phil. i. 23); and if he had been uncertain he would not have said
that. Then in Colossians iii. 4, he says: "When Christ, who is our
life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory." I
am told that Dr. Watts' tombstone bears this same passage of
Scripture. There is no doubt there.

Then turn to Colossians i. 12: "Giving thanks unto the Father, which
hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in
light; who _hath_ delivered us from the power of darkness, and _hath_
translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son."

Three _haths_: "hath made us meet;" "hath delivered us;" and "hath
translated us." It does not say that He is going to make us meet;
that He is going to deliver; that He is going to translate.

Then again in verse 14th: "In whom we have redemption through His
blood, even the forgiveness of sins." We are either forgiven or we
are not, we should not give ourselves any rest until we get into the
kingdom of God; nor until we can each look up and say, "I know that
if my earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, I have a
building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens"
(2 Cor. v. 1).

Look at Romans viii. 32: "He that spared not His own Son, but
delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely
give us all things?" If He gave us His Son, will He not give us the
certainty that He is ours. I have heard this illustration. There was
a man who owed $10,000, and would have been made a bankrupt, but a
friend came forward and paid the sum. It was found afterwards that he
owed a few dollars more; but he did not for a moment entertain a
doubt that, as his friend had paid the larger amount, he would also
pay the smaller. And we have high warrant for saying that if God has
given us His Son He will with Him also freely give us all things; and
if we want to realize our salvation beyond controversy He will not
leave us in darkness.

Again in the 33d verse: "Who shall lay anything to the charge of
God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It
is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at
the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall
separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is
written, For