A Sermon of Eleven Words

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I gave my Sunday school class a sermon in eleven words today,” said a friend of mine lately.
“I should like to have heard that,” I fancy some boy or girl would say, who reads this, “for I don’t like long sermons,” so I will tell you about this short one.
It was a showery morning, and shower and sunshine had been rapidly following each other, when a beautiful rainbow was seen stretching across the country.
Then the teacher turned to her class, and, as she pointed to the rainbow, said,
“That shows what a faithful God we have to do with.”
That was a short sermon, was it not?
Only eleven words, and yet how, much in them! Yes, God is a “faithful” God, true to His promises, for what He has promised He will certainly do.
Then the teacher and her class turned to Genesis 9:14,1514And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. (Genesis 9:14‑15), and read that four thousand years ago God had promised that He would not again destroy the earth by a flood; but that when He brought a cloud over the earth, the bow should be seen in the cloud.
Think of it, children; all these years, in spite of all the wickedness of men. God has been faithful to His promise, and still the rainbow is seen in the cloud. Is not that “a faithful God?” Can you fear to trust Him and His faithful word?
The bow in the cloud is the witness to God’s faithfulness in keeping His promise, in grace and for blessing. But if you turn to Hebrews 12:2626Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. (Hebrews 12:26), you will read that God has promised to shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And in 2 Peter 3:77But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. (2 Peter 3:7), we read,
“The heavens and the earth by the, same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire, against the day of judgment.”
This promise is in judgment, and be sure that it, too, will certainly be performed. Yes, God is “faithful,” and His word is sure. His promise will.be kept, and judgment will surely come; but in grace He is waiting now, so that all who will, may escape while yet there is time.
Would you like to know the way of escape, that you may be safe when God fulfils His word and the judgment falls?
Listen, then, to this “faithful” word of “a faithful God”
“This is a faithful saying, and wohy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” 1 Tim, 1:15.
Will you accept this for yourself, dear boy or girl, and take Jesus as your Saviour, and know on the authority of God’s sure word that you are saved, for all eternity?
ML 02/18/1945