Why do men dispute the inspiration of the Scriptures? Because the
Holy Ghost, who inspired "holy men of God" to write the Book (2
Peter i. 21), hides its spiritual sense from unspiritual and
unholy men.
Why do men doubt a Day of Judgment, and a state of everlasting
doom? Because they have never been bowed and broken and crushed
beneath the weight of their sin, and by a sense of guilt and
separation from a holy God that can only be removed by faith in
His dying Son.
A sportsman lost his way in a pitiless storm on a black and
starless night. Suddenly his horse drew back and refused to take
another step. He urged it forward, but it only threw itself back
upon its haunches. Just then a vivid flash of lightning revealed
a great precipice upon the brink of which he stood. It was but an
instant, and then the pitchy blackness hid it again from view.
But he turned his horse and anxiously rode away from the terrible
danger.
A distinguished professor of religion said to me some time ago,
"I dislike, I abhor, the doctrine of Hell"; and then after a
while added, "But three times in my life I have seen that there
was eternal separation from God and an everlasting Hell for me,
if I walked not in the way God was calling me to go."
Into the blackness of the sinner's night the Holy Spirit, who is
patiently and compassionately seeking the salvation of all men,
flashes a light that gives him a glimpse of eternal things which,
heeded, would lead to the sweet peace and security of eternal
day.
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