“SAVED! I should not like to say that. How can anyone know it with certainty?”
“If God Himself told you, would you believe Him?”
“Yes, certainly, if God told me I should believe Him.”
“God has spoken, you may know with certainty you are saved!”
The lady to whom I was speaking looked at me as though expecting some supernatural voice or vision. I showed her the book by which God speaks to us.
“That is only a Bible!” she exclaimed.
Because God did not speak to her openly and audibly, she questioned if any could know the certainty of salvation. Perhaps you are like her. If so, listen, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away.”
That word declares that salvation is found alone in Jesus. It announces the forgiveness of sins through Him alone. It assures the believer that God not only gives eternal life to those who hear the voice of the Son of God, but would have them to know it on the authority of the Bible, the book in which God has spoken to man.
“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)).
Take your stand on the rock of God’s Word. It will survive the wreck of this world’s grandeur and greatness. It is a secure foundation. You may rest with absolute certainty on its assurances. It will make you wise unto salvation. Nothing outside the Bible can do so. It is greatly to be noted that our blessed Lord exalted the written Word, and set it on a par with His own spoken word. Get your Bible. Open at John 5:46,47: “Had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?” Then see Luke 16:31,31And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. (Luke 16:31) “If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.”
Is that true of you, my reader?
H. N.