The blessing here typified is not sanctification, or only a part of salvation, it is salvation itself! A man is lost, and he looks to Jesus and he is saved—as surely as the dying thief. In a moment—there must be some period of time when a penitent, broken-hearted sinner beholds Jesus by faith, and that moment saves him. The act of faith, pictured by "looking to Jesus," saves and justifies,—so that if the man died the next moment he would be in heaven with Jesus. "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." "All that believe are justified from all things." (Acts xiii. 39.) "And there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus." (Rom. viii. 1, 2.) "He has passed from death unto life, and shall never die." Could the cure of the dying Israelites have been more perfect?

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