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

 

If one were starting a voyage across the great Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, one would find it essential to have a compass to guide his vessel safely over.  The starless nights and the hidden sun would take from him all sense of direction as soon as he lost sight of land.  He would not know north from south, or east from west.  His greatest and most essential need – a compass – would be his only means of a safe crossing.

Every person apart from God’s holy Spirit is traveling on the vast sea of destiny without a compass, that is, without God’s device for determining direction.  Reader, you must have that guiding Spirit, that holy impulse, that righteous instinct which whispers in a still small voice, “You are on course; this is the way; this is the right direction” (cf. Isa. 30:21).  Why would anyone not desire this freely given, all-important guide?

In early spring, the martins fly in, and soon they begin to hatch their young here in North Carolina.  Before cool weather reaches here, these birds, with their young, head back south, whence they came.  They not only know when to come and when to leave, but they also know the course to take.  They have an inner compass, and they use it.  If we try to navigate through this confused and evil world without God’s Spirit, which creates in us a supernatural instinct, we are less wise than the little martin, who can find his way from north to south and back again in safety.

My Friend, God has a divine compass for you that has never failed when put in use.  Man’s way of directing himself fails him.  We can look about us today and see the awful consequences of people not trusting in God’s compass, in spite of the fact that it is readily available, just waiting to be asked for, received, and used.  For those who think they can guide themselves, Paul gives this warning: “The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God” (1Cor. 3:19).  This serves as comment on what God spoke through the prophet Isaiah (44:24–25), “I am the Lord, . . . confuting wise men and making their knowledge foolishness.”

Yes, my Reader, human wisdom, when dissociated with the divine leadership of God, becomes a liability rather than an asset.  God, in His wisdom, has determined that the world, by its wisdom, cannot know Him (1Cor. 1:21).  In fact, the more earthly wisdom someone accumulates without possessing the compass of God, the more foolish he may become.  Paul mentioned God’s judgment upon educated fools, saying that they, “claiming to be wise, were turned over to foolishness” (Rom. 1:22).  That is God’s righteous judgment upon proud men.

The wisdom of this world is completely inadequate to take us across the troublesome sea of life and land us on heaven’s eternal shore.  It is only when one follows the holy Spirit that he has the spiritual understanding which gives one a good sense of direction.  That is God’s compass, and it yields a real understanding of God.  It has never been the case that the wisdom of this world is able to solve the problems that we face in this life.  Worldly wisdom only serves to confuse and to drive men deeper into despair and hopelessness.  The wisdom of man has never delivered a soul from the shackles of sin and shame.

This Is Nothing New

God had our need of heavenly guidance in mind when He sent His dear Son to earth, and Jesus promised that God’s guiding compass would be given: “The Comforter, the holy Spirit which the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will bring to your remembrance everything that I have told you” (Jn. 14:26).  This is God’s compass, and this divine guide stands ready to lead everyone who will follow.  Don’t think that I am asking you to engage in some new experiment.  To walk after the Spirit is God’s way for all people, and it has been in use since He sent His Spirit to man in Acts 2.

We begin to understand the things of the kingdom of heaven when we feel the power of God’s Spirit entering our mortal body and proclaiming vocally that our body is now the temple of God (Jn. 3:7–8).  Jesus’ disciples received this experience on the Day of Pentecost, when they were baptized with the holy Ghost, and they were never the same.  Their greatest desire was realized, and their souls were satisfied with a peace known exclusively by Spirit-filled believers.

The Spirit of God is the perfect compass, for it comes from the same God that directs and guides the little, insignificant martin southward before the first chilly breeze of autumn comes sweeping in.