God Has Spoken

Narrator: Chris Genthree
Duration: 2min
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Who Has Ears to Hear?
The Word of God must be received by faith, and the reasonings of man cannot be the foundation of faith; if they were, it would not be faith in God, nor faith in His Word. “He believed God.” “They shall be all taught of God; every man, therefore, that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father cometh unto Me.”
We have seen the Lord setting His seal to the Scriptures, but observe, in so doing, He has set His seal to the faith of all those who had previously believed in them. It was not because He had done so that those faithful ones believed. Their heart, their faith, had been previously tested. They had faith, because they had received the testimony of the Scriptures before they were thus sanctioned, at the time when they were presented to their faith, on the ground of their own authority.
When Jeremiah spoke, it does not follow that all received his testimony; there were some who had not ears to hear, but who listened to false prophets. When God is to be owned, it becomes a moral question. In all ages, believers have received the testimony of God, and unbelievers have not been able to discern God in the testimony; it is so now. God gives, in His Word, sufficient moral evidence to commend it to the conscience. When He has set up a new thing or when He has sustained faith at a distance from the sanctuary, He has added a sufficiency of extraordinary evidences. But with this comes the moral responsibility of him who hears, which God never sets aside, and also the grace which acts in giving and in establishing faith: The reception of the Word, and afterward the understanding this Word, is a thing presented to the responsibility of man. Grace alone can enable him to receive and to understand it.
Present Testimony, Vol. 3