A clergyman was walking along the road and was overtaken by a prominent physician driving in the same direction. The doctor offered the clergyman a ride, which he accepted gratefully. The physician was an infidel, and immediately turned the conversation to religion.
"I am surprised," said the doctor, "that such an intelligent man as you believes such a fable as the Bible teaches.”
The preacher answered: "Doctor, suppose you had a patient very ill with a seemingly incurable disease. Then suppose someone had found and recommended to you a remedy for that dread disease.
You procured the prescription, your patient took it according to your direction, and had been cured of that terrible disease. What would you say of any man who, in like condition, would refuse to take that prescription?”
"I would say he was a fool.”
"Twenty-five years ago," the preacher continued, "I found myself to be hopelessly enthralled by Satan.
I was dead toward God—dead, in trespasses and sins—and bound for eternal doom. In my extremity, I learned that there was only one remedy for my lost condition—the precious blood of Christ. I took that prescription, I tried the power of God's grace. It made a different man of me. All these years I have preached salvation through that shed blood, and wherever it has been accepted, I have never known it to fail to give the desired results.”
What could the doctor say to such a testimony as that? His argument ended. He owned himself to be lost—the victim of a sin-sick soul. He accepted God's remedy and for many years he has testified to the saving power of the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24).