After a three year miracle ministry do you know how many disciples Jesus had? One hundred and twenty! ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY! (See Acts 1:15). “For neither did his brethren believe in him” (John 7:5). So am I shocked, dismayed, or discouraged when some of those closest to me do not believe my words? No, not at all. I would be dumbfounded if everyone who read my articles instantly received what I wrote as being the plain truth of scripture. (Three years after beginning their ministries men like Benny Hinn and Oral Roberts have thousands and thousands of followers).
One of the oldest arguments Satan will introduce to the human mind is “all these other Christians can’t be wrong!” When they say the instant you die your soul, the real YOU, flits off to heaven or hell, can they be wrong? When they say the lost burn in hell forever and ever, throughout the endless ages of future time, can they be wrong? When they say, once saved always saved, that no matter what a Christian does they are still saved and secure, can they be wrong?
When Jesus said, “Narrow is the gate, and difficult is the way, which leads unto life, and FEW there be that find it” was He wrong? Have all these hundreds of millions of bickering, differing, professing Christians actually found the narrow way? Has the Mormon found it? How about the Amish? And the Roman Catholics, did they find it long, long ago?
When Jesus said, “Be ye therefore perfect, EVEN AS your Father which is in heaven is perfect” was He serious? Was He expecting way too much from human beings, who have so many various pulls of the flesh and a deceiving super-mind like Satan to contend with???
When Jesus said, “If you shall ask ANYTHING in my name, I WILL DO IT,” did He step out on a limb? Did he have tongue-in- cheek, so to speak?
And when He said, “Go, AND SIN NO MORE,” surely He was kidding then, wasn’t He? Maybe He just meant, “Don’t commit that particular sin for which you have been forgiven again.”
Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley