Is the Bible the Inerrant Word of God?

says. Never discount the least bit any promise in the Word of God. Some of these promises are stupendous, some of them seem incredible, but, nevertheless, believe them in all their height and length and depth and breadth, for they are God’s Word.

Of course, we should note carefully to whom the promise is made, for some of the promises of God’s Word were made to individuals and some of them were made to the Jews as Jews, and we should believe them only as applying to those to whom they were made. The Bible is always careful to make clear to whom any promise is made, and every promise made to believers in Jesus Christ belongs to every believer in Christ, if he will only trust it and appropriate it. The promises made to Jewish believers belong to Gentile believers as well, for God distinctly tells us in His own Word that “in Christ Jesus’ “there can be neither Jew nor Gentile’ (Gal. 3:28), and it says, still

further, “and if ye are Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s: seed, heirs according to promise’ (Gal. 3:29).

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3. In the third place, Believe absolutely every Warning in the Bible. We should believe the warnings of the Bible as well as its promises. We should believe what it says about the punishment of sin just as firmly as what it says about the reward of righteousnessy We should believe what it says about the guilt and awful doom of the unbeliever as unquestioningly as what it says about the wondrous privileges and eternal rewards and glory of the believer{ We should believe what it says about judgment as confidently as what it says about salvation. We should believe what it says about

[94] hell as firmly as we believe what it says about heaven// Here we see the inconsistency of many people and many preachers today. They accept all the Bible has to say about heaven and glowingly expatiate upon, what it says about heaven, but when they come to the Bible’s equally clear and definite statements about hell, they qualify them and tone them down, or throw them overboard altogether. We have exactly the same reason for believing in an eternal hell of conscious and awful suffering as we have for believing in an eternal heaven of unutterable joy and glory; namely, God says so. There is no other proof that there is a heaven awaiting the believer than the same proof that there is a hell of appalling conscious agony, that will never end, awaiting every one who persistently rejects Jesus Christ in the life that now is. bec Word declares that there is such a heaven and it also declares that there is such a hell, and that is the only ground for believing in either, and that is a perfectly sufficient ground for believing in both./

Believe, also, its warnings 4s to the results in the life that now is of certain courses of action. For example, its warnings regarding the chastisement and sufferings and manifold wretchednesses of the backslider. Believe its every warning.

4. In the fourth place, Believe its every Prophecy. For example, believe its prophecies concerning war and peace, its prophecies//concerning the future of Israel j, and its many prophecies concerning the Second Coming of Christ. What the Bible so plainly prophesies concerning the Second Coming of Christ is especially

[95] hated at present in certain at least nominally Christian quarters. This hatred of the teachings of the Bible concerning the Second Coming of Christ is blind, fanatical, bitter and fierce. It does not stop at active persecution. A well-known Professor in the Chicago University publicly advocated, during the recent war, an investigation as to whether the money that was being given for the furtherance of this precious truth did not come from German sources, and suggested that those who were teaching this truth ought to be punished as German sympathizers. A great denomination, with a glorious history, is openly making it very ‘unpleasant, and very difficult, for any of their ministers ‘and missionaries who hold and teach the doctrine of ‘the Second Coming of Christ, while at the same time they welcome with open arms those who question the Virgin Birth of our Lord and the Resurrection of the ’ body of Jesus from the dead and the reliability of the Scriptures not only into their ministry but even into their theological chairs both here in America and in China. But our part is to believe a doctrine if it is taught in the Word of God, no matter what it may cost to believe it.

II. Obey the Bible

But we should not only believe the Bible because it is the Word of God, we should also Obey the Bible for the same reason. The words of the Apostle James need to be earnestly heeded today, “Be ye doers of the Word, not hearers only, deceiving your own selves”! (Jas. 1:22). As we have proved the Bible to be the’