Do you know what a scoffer is? The devil has always had numbers of them in his service, but today they are more numerous than ever. Some of them scoff politely, and some very rudely, but all of them make light of God’s Word and refuse to believe the promise of the Lord’s coming.
I shall tell you the story of three scoffers who lived in Scotland some years ago. It was a time of much blessing, and these three boys were at first deeply interested, but soon they began to laugh at each other’s sober faces, and tried hard to spoil the meeting.
One market day, as the preacher stood upon a chair and uncovered his head to pray before a crowd of souls, many of whom were anxious to be saved, these three fellows raised such a mocking laugh that his words were drowned.
He paused a moment, and then spoke solemnly. “God has given me a message for you three lads. If you are not converted to God this day, in twelve months you will all be in the eternal world.”
This remark was greeted with renewed laughter, but the Christians trembled, for they felt it was a fearful thing to tempt God. Beware, my dear reader, for God has recorded that, “My Spirit shall not always strive with man.” Genesis 6:33And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. (Genesis 6:3). If you insist upon it, God may give you up to a Christless life and a Christless eternity.
Less than twelve months from that day, the graves of the three scoffers were green in the cemetery. One was kicked to death by a horse; another was suddenly seized with a fever and died in agony, and the third was drowned in a mill pond.
ML 04/11/1954