"Saved! I should not like to say that. How can anyone know for a certainty that he is saved?"
"But if God Himself told you, would you believe Him?"
"Yes, certainly, if God told me, I should believe Him."
"And God that told you that you may know that you are saved," I said.
The lady to whom I was speaking looked at me as if she expected some supernatural visitation, and I cannot depict her disappointed countenance, nor soon forget her dissatisfied murmuring,
"What, only the Bible!" as I opened the book by which God speaks to us.
"The Bible, dear friend, is the Word of the living God; it testifies to the finished work of His Son, and Jesus says to you in the Bible,
`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 5:24.
It is only the Bible which says to you,
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Acts 16:31, and which warns you,
"He that believeth not is condemned already."
It is `only the Bible' to which the trembling believer can look for the knowledge of peace with God. It is 'only the Bible' which will survive the wreck of this world's grandeur and greatness, for God says,
"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Word shall not pass away." Matt. 24:25.
I pray you, take your stand upon the only rock that will never be moved. Receive the declaration of "forgiveness of sins" from the word of the living God.
"Through this man (Christ Jesus) is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by Him all that believe are justified from all things." Acts 13:38:
May you, dear friend, credit every word in the Bible, and, looking away from yourself, you shall be able, by the grace of God, to say,
"I know that I am saved; God has told me."
"The Word of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the Word which by the gospel is preached unto you." 1 Peter 1:25.
"Forever, O Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven." Psa. 119:89.