long to live." "No," she replied, "I know I have not." "They tell me
you will probably not live through the night." "No," she replied, "I
do not expect to live through the night." Then he said very earnestly,
"Have you made your peace with God?" She replied, "No, I have not."
"And are you not afraid to meet God without having made your peace
with Him?" "No, not at all," she calmly replied. Again he said to her,
"Do you understand what I am saying? Do you realise that you are at
the point of death?" "Yes." "Do you realise you will probably not live
through the night?" "Yes." "And you have not made your peace with God?"
"No." "And you are not afraid to meet God?" "No, not at all." There
was something about the woman's manner that made him feel there was
something back of her words, and he said to her, "What do you mean?"
She replied, "I know I am dying. I know I am very near death. I know I
shall not live through the night. I know I must soon meet God, and I am
not at all disturbed, for I know that I did not need to make my peace
with God, because Jesus Christ made peace with God for me more than
eighteen hundred years ago by His death on the cross of Calvary, and I
am resting in the peace that Jesus Christ has already made." The woman
was right: no man needs to make his peace with God, Jesus Christ has
already made peace by His atoning death, and all we have to do is to
enter into the peace which Jesus Christ has made for us, and we enter
into that peace by simply believing in the One who made peace by His
death upon the cross. Jesus Christ's work was a complete and perfect
work. There is nothing to be added to it. We cannot add anything to it,
and we do not need to add anything to it. Jesus Christ has "made peace
through the blood of His cross."
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