The Saviour is the answer to how to know God for He was the express image of the invisible God. “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” Jesus didn’t come just to show us what God is like. Although He did that, to be sure. God took the initiative. What keeps us from know ing God is sin. Science doesn’t have any answer to sin, a question as old as history itself. On the cross, the perfect Son of God and Son of man bore our sins in His own body, suf fering the just for the unjust that He might bring us to God. The answer to the sin question is the Son question. “There is none other Name under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved.” The Saviour is certainly the an swer for how to live. He is not just a way to live, but in actuality is our life. He came that we might have not just life, but that we might have it more abundantly. Men ought to live like Christ, but, remember, one doesn’t get to heaven merely by liv ing like Jesus. None of us have what it takes. Some people start out living for Jesus which is very noble and very fine. This will never give a per son eternal life. The Christian life must be implanted in us by the mira cle of regeneration. Christianity is moving on from the “ unchanged ” life to the “ changed ” life to the “ex changed” life. Our Lord came down to earth not just to take our part but rather to take our place. How wonderfully the Lord is the answer to life after death. Whatever we know about heaven and most of what we know about hell was told us by Him. It was the meek and the low ly Jesus who told us more about hell than anybody else in the Bible. It was our Lord who said, “I go to prepare a 19
H aving spent over 50 years in the ministry there are a few observations which impress them selves on my mind. “Youth has fire without light, and age has light with out fire.” We need both the burning and the shining light. Someone has said, “If youth knew how to live, then old age could.” I have come from the horse-and-buggy days to the space age. Man has stepped up the pace these last 50 years faster than in all the centuries before. Yet his sins have gotten him into more trouble than his science can get him out of. There are some things computers just do not tell us. The first big question is how to find God. How does one get in touch with Him? Can He be known? He is cer tainly not found in the test tube. “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork.” The sad situation is, however, too many know the "art” of God but not the “heart” of God. Knowing more about God as the Cre ator is not knowing God personally as a loving heavenly Father. The second thing computers won’t tell us is how to live. It is true that, physically, we are living longer. Life is not measured by its length, how ever, but by its depth. America is turning out scientists today, but not saints. We ride under the water like fish and fly in the sky like birds. The problem is, if only we could walk on the earth like men. Another thing the computers don’t tell us is about life after death. What happens one minute after a person dies? Science cannot help us there. Where are our loved ones now de parted? The wonderful assuring an swer to all three of these queries is found in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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