REMEMBER that, if you have Christ as your Saviour, you do not need anybody else to save you. I see an old gentleman over there in Rome, with a triple crown on his head. We do not want him, for “Christ is all.” He says that he is the vicergerent of God. That is not true; but if it were, it would not matter, for “Christ is all.” So we can do without the Pope. Then I see another gentleman, with an all-round dog collar of the Roman kennel type, and he tells me that if I will confess my sins to him as the priest of the parish, he can give me absolution. But seeing that “Christ is all,” we can do without that gentleman as well as the other one; for anything that is over and above “all” must be a superfluity, if nothing worse. So is it with everything that is beside or beyond Christ; faith can get to Christ without Pope or priest. Everything that is outside Christ is a lie, for “Christ is all.” All that is true must be inside Him; so we can do without all others in the matter of our soul’s salvation.
But supposing that we have not received Christ as our Saviour, then how unspeakably poor we are! If we have not grasped Christ by faith, we have not laid hold of anything, for “Christ is all”; and if we have not Him who is all, we have nothing at all. “Oh!” says one, “I am a regular chapel-goer.” Yes, so far, so good; but if you have not Christ, you have nothing, for “Christ is all.” “But I have been baptized,” says another. Ah! but if you have not savingly trusted in Christ, your baptism is only another sin added to all your others. “But I go to Communion,” says another. So much the worse for you if you have not trusted in Christ as your Saviour. I wish I could put this thought into the heart of everyone who is without Christ: if you are without Christ you are without everything that is worth having, for “Christ is all.”