Jesus, the great I AM, is the entrance into the true church and the way of access to God himself. Come to God through him, and he gives you four choice privileges.

First: You shall be saved. The fugitive manslayer passed the gate of the city of refuge and was safe. Noah entered the door of the ark and was secure. None can be lost who take Jesus as the door of faith to their souls. Entrance through Jesus into peace is the guarantee of entrance by the same door into heaven. Jesus is the only door. An open door. A wide door. A safe door. Blessed is he who rests all his hope of admission to glory upon the crucified Redeemer!

Second: You shall go in. You shall be privileged to go in among the divine family, sharing the children's bread, participating in all their honors and enjoyments. You shall go in to the chambers of communion, to the banquets of love, to the treasures of the covenant, to the storehouses of the promises. You shall go in unto the King of kings in the power of the Holy Spirit, and the secret of the Lord shall be with you.

Third: You shall go out. This blessing is much forgotten. We go out into the world to labor and suffer, but what a mercy to go in the name and power of Jesus! We are called to bear witness to the truth, to cheer the disconsolate, to warn the careless, to win souls, and to glorify God. As the angel said to Gideon, "Go in this thy might"—even thus the Lord would have us proceed as his messengers in his name and strength.

Fourth: You shall find pasture. He who knows Jesus shall never want. Going in and out shall be alike helpful to him: in fellowship with God he shall grow, and in watering others he shall be watered. Having made Jesus his all, he shall find all in Jesus. His soul shall be as a watered garden, and as a well of water whose waters fail not.