My wife and I were
married 50 years ago on this past
March twenty-third. It wasn’t long before I learned something
about her that I
had not previously known – her mother had taught her how to
make delicious
biscuits. She told me that secret was using enough shortening. Well, I
decided
to surprise her one morning and make the biscuits. Now, I reasoned that
if a
good dob of shortening made‘em that good, a double dob would
make ‘em that much
better. Friends, when they came out of the oven, they would have
smashed a foot
if they had fallen on it. They were more like hockey pucks than
biscuits.
What’s my
point? Just this, some things do not work
unless the directions are closely followed.
God tells us that He
has given us “all things that
pertain to life and godliness.” He warned that His Word must
not be added to or
diminished from. It is perfect as it is. When perverted by additions or
subtractions, it will not save. The Message:
Don’t add to –
Don’t take away from.
Truth
Is Tough
By
Ernest S. Underwood
“For all have
sinned and come short of the glory of
God…” and “And the wages of sin is
death,” so writes the apostle Paul in the Book
of Romans. Jesus came to save man from the consequences of sin. He died
on the
cross, then told man how to take advantage of His sacrifice. The Gospel
must be
preached; “Go into all the world and preach the
gospel…,” said He. He also
stated that “Except you believe that I am He you will die in
your sins...” He
continued by saying: “I tell you No, unless you repent you
will likewise
perish.” In Matthew
10:32 He
said, “Therefore whoever confesses Me
before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in
heaven.” And in Mark
16:16 He stated concerning those to whom the
Gospel
was preached: “He who believes and is baptized will be saved;
but he who does
not believe will be condemned.”
There it is! Saving
truth in a nutshell—tough truth! Men
have denied one or more of these truths, but
their denial has no more changed the truth than one who has cancer, but
denies
it, changes the truth that he has it.
If one is lost in
sin, he must obey from the heart the Gospel
that has been delivered. What will you do, obey the Gospel and be
saved, or
listen to denominational preachers and deny and reject the precious
saving
truth and be lost in hell. The choice is yours.
