The Way Made Plain

“While it is true that God is Judge, it is also true in a certain sense that man is judge, for you are deciding tonight, or some time in this life, exactly what God will decide on the Judgment Day. It is simply a question, What are you and I going to do with Jesus Christ the Savior? Will we accept Him or reject Him? Will we let God save us or remain damned? A great many people sneer at the idea of damnation, and say that just because God is love, He is not going to damn anybody on the Judgment Day. God never did damn any one and never will. We are condemned – God came to save, and the question that you and I must decide is whether we are going to let God save us, or remain lost. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” – Simon Peter Long

Simon Peter Long (1860-1929) was a student of Matthias Loy. He attended Capital University and the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary (Ohio Synod) in Columbus and at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (General Council). Loy served as a pastor from 1886 to 1929, President of Lima College 1898-1903 and Professor and President of the Chicago Lutheran Bible School.

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