by Pastor Cornelius R.
Stam
Every true Christian should
understand that the truth costs. If you don’t think so, make it your own, value
it, defend it, stand for it, and see if it doesn’t cost. Before you are through
it may cost you far more than you had thought — hours of ease and pleasure,
friends and money. Yes, the truth costs. Salvation is gloriously free but the
truth costs — that is, if you want it for yourself. Many who know the truth
won’t buy it. They won’t pay what it costs to say: “This is what I believe.
This is my conviction.” The truth isn’t worth that much to them.
But in Prov. 23:23 God’s Word urges
us: “Buy the truth”! Not, “Buy it if you can get it at a bargain; if the price
is not too great.” No, “Buy the truth”! Buy it at any price. It is worth far
more than anything you can give in exchange for it.
And when you have bought it: “sell
it not.” How many, alas, have bought the truth only to sell out again! For a
while they valued and defended some God-given light from His Word, but
presently they sold it again for something that seemed more valuable. Perhaps
it was peace with others, or position, or popularity or some other temporal
gain. They still gave mental assent to it but it formed no part of them. It was
no longer a conviction.
Such should read again the Spirit’s
counsel: “Buy the truth, and sell it not.” He does not say: “Don’t sell it
unless you can get a very good price for it.” He says: “Sell it not.” Sell it
not at any price. Buy it, no matter what it costs and when it is yours do not
sell it for any price or under any consideration.
It is because the truth is so little
valued in this indifferent age, that many of God’s people have become so
spiritually powerless. They hold opinions instead of convictions, because they
have given the infallible, unchangeable Word of God little place in their
lives. God blesses and uses those who “buy the truth and sell it not.”
The
Coming Judgement
By
Les Feldick
How God Saves Men
Believing Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s
SALVATION.
Read Romans 1:16, Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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