0444. The Fool Who Believes Not the Prophets

The Fool Who Believes Not the Prophets

"And He said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken" (Luk_24:25).

Those to whom Christ spoke these words were His own disciples, and yet they did not unswervingly accept all that the Prophets had written. We want to make a twofold application; first of all, a word to those who reject all the Bible; secondly, a word to those who accept some but do not believe all of the prophets.

1. Those who deny the Bible as a whole. These we commonly call infidels. The atheist is the one who says there is no God, and all atheists reject the Bible as the inspired Word of God. The infidel may, or may not believe in God, but he does not believe in a God Who has revealed Himself through a written Word.

Have you ever sat down and considered what it would mean if we had no Bible? Let us see.

(1) It would mean that we would have no definite knowledge as to God Himself. Where there is no knowledge of the Bible, there is a belief in some kind of a God, but how crude is that belief!

Heathen beliefs hold ideas of God that are horrid to consider. God to them is no more than a despot, without mercy; a God to be appeased by some brutal sacrifice; or a God Who is Himself licentious and lustful.

The Bible is the one Book that reveals God to mankind, as a holy and a just God, and yet a God of tender compassion.

(2) It would mean that we would have no knowledge of salvation, for the Bible alone gives us the story of how God can be just and withal the justifier of those who believe.

(3) It would mean that we would have no definite knowledge of things beyond this life, for only God’s Word reveals the things to come.

2. Those who deny the prophetic Scriptures. Christ said to His own brethren, "O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken." Yet, that is just what we have all around us to-day. There are many who believe that part of the prophetic Word which has thus far met its fulfillment, but they refuse to believe, or else their minds are clouded and they fail to see the import of unfulfilled prophecy.

Had the saints en route to Emmaus accepted and believed what the Prophets had spoken concerning the death, burial and resurrection of Christ, they would not have been so blinded with sorrow, as they walked their weary way that eventide.

If the saints of to-day would simply believe what the Prophets have written about Christ’s Second Coming, they would not be in such despair about present conditions.

The infidels are to be blamed because they reject the Bible as a whole: what are we to think of those who reject the Bible, in part? What about men who take plain statements of Christ’s coming again, and of His reign on David’s throne, and spiritualize them; and thus change the full intent of their meaning and purpose? God pity them! How foolish they are and how slow of heart to believe all!

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR