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Salvation: Trampling on Christ

I once heard of a father who had a prodigal boy who had sent his mother down to the grave with a broken heart. One evening the boy started out as usual to spend the night in drinking and gambling. As he was leaving, his old father said, "My son, I want to ask a favor of you tonight. You have not spent an evening with me since your mother died, and now I want you to spend this night at home. I have been very lonely since your mother died. Now, won't you gratify your old father by staying home with me?" "No," said the young man; "it is lonely here, and there is nothing to interest me, and I am going out." The old man prayed and wept, and at last he said, "My boy, you are just killing me as you have killed your mother. These hairs are growing whiter, and you are sending me, too, to the grave." Still the boy would not stay, and the old man said, "If you are determined to go to ruin, you must go over this old body tonight. I cannot resist you; you are stronger than I. But if you go out, you must go over this body." He laid himself down before the door, and that son walked over the form of his father, trampled the love of his father underfoot, and went out.

That is the way with sinners. You have to trample the blood of God's Son under your feet if you go down to death, to make light of the blood of the Innocent, to make light of the wonderful love of God. -- MOODY.

William Moses Tidwell, "Pointed Illustrations."