Going to Jesus

Gospel Tracts

 Select a tract to read:

• Tracts 1-50

  1. How I Received the Holy Ghost 2. Jesus Is Coming Again 3. You Must Be Born Again 4. Stir Up the Gift of God 5. The World’s Most Dreaded Hour 6. What is Salvation? 7. Stand Still in Jordan 9. Grieved Hearts 10. The Second Death 11. The Father and the Son 12. Suffering and the Saints 13. Cancer Conquered 14. The Church? 15. How Shall They Preach, Except They Be Sent? 16. Have You Received the Holy Ghost Since You Believed? 17. Patience 18. Alone With God 19. Tithes and Offerings 20. Prayer 21. The True Sabbath 22. The Besetting Sin 23. The Cry of the Righteous 24. What Will the Harvest Be? 25. Marriage and Divorce 26. Taking the Name of the Lord 27. The Keys of the Kingdom 28. Works 29. Politics and Believers 30. Unequally Yoked in Marriage 31. Coming Out of Babylon 32. The Forgiven Woman 33. The New Earth 34. The Sin of Silence 35. Freedom 36. Gods of the Gentiles 37. Why Some Are Not Healed 38. The Seven Pillars 39. Life, More Abundantly 40. Fear 41. The Comforter’s Testimony 42. This is My Friend 43. Conversion 44. The Time Is Drawing Near? 45. Songs in the Night 46. The Master’s Net 47. Trials are Opportunities 48. Receiving the Messenger 49. Seven Messages to the Seven Pastors 50. Keep Yourself Pure

• Tracts 51-100

  51. The New Birth 52. John the Baptist and Jesus 53. Denying Jesus 54. Bruised Reeds 56. The Wise and the Foolish 57. Holiness 58. Is Jesus God? 59. Christ or Christianity 60. Have Faith In God 61. Worthy to Suffer 63. Four Kinds of Soil 64. Communion 65. The Fullness of Time 66. Baptism 68. No Room 69. Crucified With Christ 70. Homosexuality and the Bible 71. The Kingdom of God 72. The Gospel of Christ 74. Perseverance 75. The Resurrection 76. Salvation 77. Sanctification 78. New Commandments 79. The Sacrifice of Christ 81. The Sound of the Spirit 82. The Wrath of God 84. God’s Compass 85. Perfection 86. The Abomination of Desolation 87. Antichrist 88. The Way of Grace 90. Relationships 91. The Vineyard of God 93. Subdued 94. The Spirit of Christ 95. The Blood of Christ 96. Spirit of a Serpent, Spirit of a Dove 97. Gluttony 98. The Lost Lamb 99. Scripture Burners 100. Bleating and Lowing

 

When Jesus came into this world, there was little room for him – just a manger.  The inn was full.  Yes, our Lord was born in a stable and cradled in a manger, for there was no room for him in the inn.  Not long after his birth, Herod the king had all the children in and near Bethlehem who were two years old or under put to death, trying to kill the baby Jesus. There was no room for Mary’s holy child in the land.  Thankfully, God out-witted the wicked king, for He forewarned Joseph in a dream, and Joseph had taken the tiny stranger and his mother to Egypt.

After the death of Herod, Joseph and Mary returned with the little lad from Egypt, but after being warned again in a dream, they did not go to Bethlehem, but to the despised city of Nazereth, a city that was so hated that even Nathanael, when told by Philip that they had found Jesus, asked the question, “Can anything good come out of Nazereth?” It was there that Jesus was hidden, safe from the machinations of evil men.

Once, a certain man came to Jesus desiring to follow him, and Jesus told him the price of discipleship: “The foxes have dens, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.”  The officials frowned upon him; the social elites made no room for him; and the religious leaders put him out of the synagogues.  In other words, “He came to his own things, and his own people did not receive him.”  Think of it.  Our blessed Savior had no place on earth – the earth that he had created – to lay his tired and weary head.  On one occasion after Jesus had finished a day’s teaching in the temple, “every one went home”, but “Jesus went to the Mount of Olives” to pray – God’s homeless Son.

He was rocked in a borrowed cradle; he slept in a borrowed home in Bethany; he paid his tax with a borrowed piece of money from the mouth of a fish; and in the end, he was buried in a borrowed grave.  But, thank God, he “became poor so that you, through his poverty, might become rich.”  Moreover, he knew that every beast of the forest belonged to his Father, and the cattle upon a thousand hills (Ps. 50:10).  The whole world was his Father’s (Ps. 50:12), and he rested in his Father’s love.  And he also knew that he was worshipped and adored by myriads of angels.

How strange it is that now, as it was then, millions don’t want the Savior in their homes!  Why?  Because they know he will not endorse their sinful pleasures.  Dishonest business men make no room for him.  He is barred from the doors of many churches.  Evil hearts everywhere shut him out, and social clubs exclude him.  What a day it is going to be when those who have rejected the Son of God realize that the great Judge of all the earth will make no room for them in the kingdom of God.  On the other hand, those who made room in their hearts for Jesus here, in this life, will be given a place with him on the new earth that he has promised.  As Peter said, “We, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells” (2Pet. 3:13).

Strangers and Pilgrims

Just as there was no room for Jesus when he came into this world of sin and sorrow, so there is no room for those who are like him.  They, too, are “strangers and pilgrims”.  The apostle Paul emphasized this when he said, “We have become like the scum of the world, the offscouring of all things” (1Cor. 4:13).  The righteous beggar, Lazarus, received “evil things” while on earth; but afterward “he was comforted”.  On the other hand, the wicked rich man received “good things” on earth, but after he died, he was tormented.  Some believers have attempted to promote, popularize, and socialize “the way of holiness”, but true holiness will never be popular in “this present evil world”.  And those who try to make it so find themselves backslidden and stripped of their anointing from God.  Remember, “the friendship of the world is enmity against God.  Therefore, whoever would be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God” (Jas. 4:4).

Paul said that “we brought nothing into the world, and it is obvious that we can take nothing out. So, having sustenance and clothing, let us be content with them.  Those who want to be rich fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts which plunge men into ruin and destruction.  For the love of money is a root of all evils, for which some, craving after, have been led away from the faith and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.  But you, O man of God, flee these things.  Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.  Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on eternal life, for which you were called and have made the good confession before many witnesses” (1Tim. 6:7–12).  Moses beautifully exemplified this spirit of holiness when he “refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season, esteeming the reproach of Christ to be greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he looked ahead to the reward” (Heb. 11:24–26).

Child of God, do not be surprised if the world hates you and excludes you.  You can be satisfied with the “lowest room” here in this life, if you remember that the world treated Jesus this same way.  “If the world hate you,” Jesus said, “know that it hated me before it hated you.  If you were of the world, the world would befriend its own; but since you’re not of the world – on the contrary, I’ve chosen you out of the world – the world does hate you” (Jn. 15:18–19).

Praise God, that we belong to Christ and not to the world!  We “rejoice in our hope”, Paul said, because “the sufferings of this present time are unworthy of comparison with the glory that shall be revealed to us” (Rom. 5:2; 8:18).  Yes, dear Friend, look up and rejoice, for although we have no place in this world, the Lord has made room for us.