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The Book That Endures, January 9
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass
away.
Matthew 24:35
.
He [Christ] pointed to the Scriptures as of unquestionable authority,
and we should do the same. The Bible is to be presented as the word of
the infinite God, as the end of all controversy and the foundation of all
faith.
The infidel Voltaire once boastingly said: “I am weary of hearing
people repeat that twelve men established the Christian religion. I will
prove that one man may suffice to overthrow it.” ... Millions have
joined in the war upon the Bible. But it is so far from being destroyed,
that where there were a hundred in Voltaire’s time, there are now ten
thousand, yes, a hundred thousand copies of the Book of God. In the
words of an early Reformer concerning the Christian church, “The Bible
is an anvil that has worn out many hammers.” Saith the Lord, “No
weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that
shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.”
Isaiah 54:17
.
At this time, before the great final crisis, as before the world’s first
destruction, men are absorbed in the pleasures and the pursuits of sense.
Engrossed with the seen and transitory, they have lost sight of the unseen
and eternal. For the things that perish with the using, they are sacrificing
imperishable riches.... From the rise and fall of nations as made plain
in the pages of Holy Writ, they need to learn how worthless is mere
outward and worldly glory.
The Word of God is the only steadfast thing our world knows. It
is the sure foundation. “Heaven and earth shall pass away,” said Jesus,
“but my words shall not pass away.”
“The word of God shall stand for ever.” “All his commandments
are sure. They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and
uprightness.”
Isaiah 40:8
;
Psalm 111:7, 8
. Whatever is built upon the
authority of man will be overthrown; but that which is founded upon the
rock of God’s immutable Word shall stand forever.
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