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The Bible is in no danger. As far as the Bible is concerned all these attacks from different sources upon the Bible do only good, they set people to thinking about the Bible, they set preachers to preaching about the Bible, they serve to illustrate the invincible truth and power of the Bible by showing the ease with which such fierce attacks upbn it are repelled. But while the Bible itself is in no danger, those who vent their spleen upon it are in danger. It is no small sin to ridicule the Word of an all holy and all mighty God. There are . others also who are in danger. Those who listen to the fascinating eloquence of gifted unbelievers and allow it to lull them to repose in a life of sin, they are in danger. Men, and especially young men, your con sciences were once troubling you and you were contemplating forsaking your folly, but you have allowed yourselyes to be blinded by the voice of some brilliant agnostic and you are now about to trample under foot the.Word of God and the Christ of God. Do not be deceived, these voices that speak to you are not the voices of, truth, but the voices of falsehood, infa mous, dastardly, soul-destroying falsehood. To listen to these voices means ruin, eter nal ruin. Do not listen to such voices, listen to the voice of God that speaks to you in wondrous love from this book and says, “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and He will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.” Yes, and there is another class in danger. All those who do not accept Jesus Christ are in danger. This book is not in danger, -every utterance of it will stand, and this book declares in John 3 :36, “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” It is true, and if you do not believe on Christ, if you do not speedily give up your unbelief and put your trust in Him, you must perish. i T ' . '
shall not pass away” (Matt. 24:25), or to put it as Peter puts it in 1 Peter 1:24, 25, “All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the word of the Lord abideth forever.” V I. T h e Bible is n o t in d a n g e r b ecau se In John 7:17 Jesus offers a test that aiiy man can try for himself. He says, “If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself.” Many have tried this test and it has never failed. A few weeks ago, at the close of one of our evening services, a man came to me saying that he was full of doubts, that while he believed that there was a God, he doubted that Jesus Christ'was the Son of God, or that the -Bible" was the Word of God. He said furthermore, he had been advised to accept it 'on blind faith without evidence. I told him to do nothing of the sort. I told him that believing without evidence was not faith but credulity, and that God did not ask any man to believe without evidence. Then I gave him the passage just quoted, “If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teach ing, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself.” I told him to sur render his will to God and then ask God to show him whether Jesus Christ was His Son or not, and whether the Bible was His Word or not, and to take the gospel of John and read it, not trying to believe it, but being willing to be convinced if it was true, and promising God that he would take his stand upon everything in it that he found to be true. Within a week I received a letter from this man telling me how he had come out into the clear light of faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God. I have seen the man again today, and not only has his scepticism utterly vanished, but he is leading other sceptics to Christ. an y h o n e st an d e a rn e st seek er a fte r tru th c an find o u t fo r h im self th a t th e Bible is G od’s W ord.
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