Now, there is one final, well, in fact,
there are really two final reasons that I
offer as proof that this is the Word
of God.
One is the transformed lives of believers today.
I have seen what the Word of God
can do in the lives of men and
women.
I'm thinking right now of a man who
listened to this program up in Oakland, California.
I know this man.
This man was, and I'm not going into
detail in his life at all, but he
probably had as many problems, he had as
many hang-ups, he was in as much
sin as any man that I know anything
about.
And did you know that this man began
to listen to the radio program, and I
hear people just hear it for the first
time and are converted.
That's wonderful, and I think it's possible.
But this man listened to it for week
after week, and he became antagonistic, he became
angry.
He said to me that if I could
have got to you when you told me
when you were teaching the epistle to the
Romans that I was a sinner, he said,
I would have hit you in the nose.
And frankly, friends, I think he could have
done it.
He's much bigger than I am and much
younger than I am.
I'm glad he couldn't get to me.
That's another reason to appreciate this radio, by
the way.
You can keep a big fellow like that
at arm's length, and you can still call
him a sinner.
And so this man now turned to Christ.
May I say to you, it's been wonderful
to see what God has done in his
life.
Some time ago, I read a letter of
an entire family way back in Indianapolis.
Through the Word of God, they came to
a saving knowledge of Christ, and an entire
family is changed.
May I say to you, friends, that again
and again and again and again, this could
be multiplied of those who had their lives
transformed by coming to Christ.
Now, let me give you a reason that's
a rather personal reason.
And I journal impersonal, but this may be
even a little more personal.
When I finished seminary, I was what would
be called a preacher who preached in the
realm of the defense of the gospel.
And I attempted to defend the Bible.
In fact, I think every message I had
entered into that area.
And I felt that if I could get
just enough answers to the questions that people
have for not believing the Bible, that I'd
be able to just mow them down.
And I attempted to get them.
And I found out that in certain cases,
though, where I could answer the individual, that
the worst thing in the world to do
would be to whip a man down intellectually.
The minute that you do that, you've made
an enemy, and you'll never win him for
the Lord.
And so I found out that I was
being self-defeated by that method.