EITHER IT IS OR IT ISN'T!

"...if it were not so, I would have told you."

(Jn. 14:2) 

My beloved mentor and friend, Dr. Joe Henry Hankins used to say, "If all we hold dear in this life as well as that which is to come were not true, our precious Lord tells us He would have told us so." God made it a very easy thing concerning all that the Good Book speaks of— either it is or isn't true. There is no middle ground! 

The old-time evangelist D. L. Moody said, "One of three men wrote the Bible: bad men, good men, or God's men. The first wouldn't have; they would never condemn their own wickedness. The second group couldn't have written it; they said it was all God's Word when it wasn't, thus making themselves liars. The last group is the only logical answer: holy men wrote it under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost as the scriptures teach." 

Joshua told those of his day they must choose between either IT IS or IT ISN'T; Elijah called upon his generation to choose between IS and ISN'T; and our Lord made plain throughout His earthly life that it all comes down to a simple question of IS or ISN'T! That is, the Christian teaching about God, heaven and hell, Jesus, the Kingdom of God, truth etc., is or isn't so. How did the great intellect Paul feel about the question? "Let God be true and every man a liar."

God will not make the choice for you, but He will tell you which is the best choice, Deut. 30:19.

"But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."

(Heb. 11:6)

By an Old Disciple