PREACHING:
NEED FOR APPLICATION; TRUTH: NECESSITY OF RESPONSE; OBEDIENCE: NEED FOR

There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its biblical sense, but something else and something less.…

By far the greater portion of the book is devoted to an urgent effort to persuade people to alter their ways and bring their lives into harmony with the will of God as set forth in its pages.

No man is better for knowing that God in the beginning created the heaven and the earth. The devil knows that, and so did Ahab and Judas Iscariot. No man is better for knowing that God so loved the world of men that He gave His only begotten Son to die for their redemption. In hell there are millions who know that. Theological truth is useless until it is obeyed. The purpose behind all doctrine is to secure moral action.

Genesis 1:1; Matthew 7:24–27; John 3:16; Romans 2:13; James 1:22–25; James 2:19–20

Of God and Men, 25, 26.