A preacher had come from town to preach in a little country place one Sunday morning. He delivered a well-polished sermon. After the service, someone remarked to Farmer Brown, “Wasn’t that a fine sermon?”
“Maybe so,” replied the farmer.
“Why,” continued his friend, “that man knows more about the Bible than anybody in this part of the country. He certainly knows a lot about Bible history and geography.”
“Well,” returned Farmer Brown, “maybe the trouble is with me. But you see, I had hoped I should hear something about the way to heaven. Instead, I only learned something about the way from Jerusalem to Jericho.”
How many a sermon has been preached without any mention of the way of salvation, nothing said that would point out to sinners the way of life and peace with God. Perhaps, as is often the case, the preacher himself did not know the way of salvation. Perhaps he himself did not know the Saviour, so how could he tell others the way to heaven.
But, thank God, that way is marked out plainly in His Word, bore all to see and to tread. “The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein... but the redeemed shall walk there... they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” Isa. 35: 8,9,10.
This is the way to heaven, dear reader — the only way. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31).
ML 04/09/1967