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THE K I N G ’S BUS I NES S
"TALK From Heaven After Moses had received the tables of the law on Mt. Sinai, God said to him (Ex. 20:22): “ Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.” The ten command ments were not an evolution but a revelation. God talked them to Moses from heaven. “ God spake all these words.” (Ex. 20:1), This gives us a partial but very beautiful definition of the Scriptures. They are God’s talk from heaven. There is today much talk from earth. Men speak their opinions and make a babel of confusion. “ Science falsely so called” often contradicts God’s talk from heaven. The air is full of voices clamoring to be heard. Philosophy which means “ the love of wisdom,” has many foolish things to say, and Theosophy, which means “ the wisdom of God,” refuses to hear the God of wisdom as He speakj in His word. “ New thought” speaks its old infidelity and tries to look wise, while it vaporizes about nothing. Mingling with this talk from earth is some talk from the lower regions. Demons who delight only in darkness and refuse to talk except in dark rooms are finding mediums of communication with those who are willing to seek them. All these voices differ from each other in many particulars, but agree in their opposition to the talk from heaven as revealed in the Scrip tures. They all deny the deity of Christ and the merit of His atoning death. It gives heart rest to turn from the jangling voices of earth, and listen to God’s talk from heaven. Read your Bible. —A. C. D. S w e e t w i n d Some people think we are terribly rough on the critics and that we imagine they are much worse than they really are. Well, friends, we can’t help it. We have so much evidence at hand of the way things are going that we cannot refrain from sounding the warning. For instance, here is a quotation from a letter written by a Rev. Ph. D. in Montana. Someone had handed him a tract published by the Bible Institute, and his sensitive nature is offended. He says: “I tell you, sir, this kind of stuff will pot do to hand to a man who has entered into the kingdom of love here and now. The God I worship is spelled with four letters: L-o-V-e. Love is my God, and operates in and through all things from the smallest astronomical particle up to the beautiful plants on which all life exists. The only devil I know, or ever will know, is the selfish self in mankind, and th a t fellow I have overcome some time ago. If you have nothing to offer but an endless hell you will have to pass your literature on to babies. It would be im possible for me to endorse th a t kind of a doctrine. I do not want to get in touch with such a God. Every person has to work out his own salvation, either here or hereafter. Most of your Bible quotations are interpolations written by priests to scare mankind into subjection. That kind of a God would not make me a respectable devil.” We are reminded of a story told by Vice President Marshall: A farmer boy offered to his mother a taste of his first glass of soda water. She hesi tated to sample it, so the boy urged: “ Go on ma, it ’s nothin’ but sweet wind!” . . . Sweet wind—that’s what this Rev. Ph. D. is dishing out to his congre gation, and he thinks they are getting fat on it. A toy balloon gets fat on wind too—but look out! —K. L. B.
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