4. But this glad tidings is for you and you and you--for _every one of you_. It is for _whosoever_, and that means everybody--everybody. A certain believing man in England said, "I rather it would _be whosoever_ than to have my name there. For if my name was there, I could say there might be another man of my name in the world, but when it says _whosoever, I know it includes me_." 5. It is to save us from _perishing_. Oh, what an awful word is that, and what an awful thing it must be to perish. You have a taste of it now in your sins, and their saddening, darkening, hardening effect on you. You once had tender consciences. You once loved things and people that were pure and good and true, and you loved a Christian mother, wife, father or sister; but sin has so hardened you, that you care for none of these things now. Is it not so? Well, this is a little taste of what it is to finally and forever _perish_. But Christ was given that you might _not perish_. What, can Christ save me from my hardness of heart, from my black sins, from my uncleanness and debauchery, and from my awful darkness of mind and conscience? Yes; He can, glory to His name. I am a living witness. He has saved me. He can save others like me from all these awful effects of sin, even after they have lived in it for scores of years, as I did. Yes, and He saves from that awful _perishing_ which comes after this little, short life is over, whatever it is. Yes; Jesus can shut and bar the door of hell, and no soul can enter there who believes in Him and lives for Him. 6. But He not only saves from perishing, He gives them eternal _life_, What does that mean? Oh, I know not--only I know it means life forever without death or decay or sickness or pain or sorrow or weakness or tiredness or parting or fear or anxiety. But what else it means I know not. This eternal life, this life forever in heaven, I expect--I fully expect--to get, though I was a poor gambler and swearer and adulterer, and all that I could be that was sinful, for forty years. Yes; I expect to get it. I know I am on my way thither, though I am not perfect. Won't you come and go with us? Oh, won't you come? TITUS II: 14. "Who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." This verse contains a comprehensive statement of the Gospel in few words. Let us ask God that His Holy Spirit may give us wisdom and insight to understand and profit by what we are here told. In the first place, we are told that the ground of our salvation is through the self-surrender of Himself by Jesus, the Son of God.