old hymn, "Rock of Ages." The
children are no longer afraid of the man, but cluster around his
knee. His wife is near him, her face lit up with a happy glow. Is not
that a picture of Regeneration? I can take you to many such homes,
made happy by the regenerating power of the religion of Christ. What
men want is the power to overcome temptation, the power to lead a
right life.

The only way to get into the kingdom of God is to be "born" into it.
The law of this country requires that the President should be born in
the country. When foreigners come to our shores they have no right to
complain against such a law, which forbids them from ever becoming
Presidents. Now, has not God a right to make a law that all those who
become heirs of eternal life must be "born" into His kingdom?

An unregenerated man would rather be in hell than in heaven. Take a
man whose heart is full of corruption and wickedness, and place him
in heaven among the pure, the holy and the redeemed; and he would not
want to stay there. Certainly, if we are to be happy in heaven we
must begin to make a heaven here on earth. Heaven is a prepared place
for a prepared people. If a gambler or a blasphemer were taken out of
the streets of New York and placed on the crystal pavement of heaven
and under the shadow of the tree of life, he would say, "I do not
want to stay here." If men were taken to heaven just as they are by
nature, without having their hearts regenerated, there would be
another rebellion in heaven. Heaven is filled with a company of those
who have been twice born.

In the 14th and 15th verses of this chapter we read "As Moses lifted
up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be
lifted up; that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but
have eternal life." "WHOSOEVER." Mark that! Let me tell you who are
unsaved what God has done for you. He has done everything that He
could do toward your salvation. You need not wait for God to do
anything more. In one place he asks the question, what more could he
have done (Isaiah v. 4). He sent His prophets, and they killed them;
then He sent His beloved Son, and they murdered Him. Now He has sent
the Holy Spirit to convince us of sin, and to show how we are to be
saved.

In this chapter we are told how men are to be saved, namely, by Him
who was lifted up on the cross. Just as Moses lifted up the brazen
serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, "that
whoso