December 24 Daily Devotional

God’s invincible truth

We must get rid of this spirit of fear, this lurking pride, this inferiority complex, this tendency to apologize for the Word of God and its blessed Truth.... We must have confidence and assurance! In what? In the Bible as the Word of God. Why? Because it is God’s Word, because it is God’s revelation; because it is not the theories and the ideas of men with respect to Truth.... It is what the Living God has revealed to men ... and has commanded them to preach. [Martin Luther] puts it like this: ‘Philosophy has to do with what can be known by human reason. Theology has to do with that which is “believed”, with that which is apprehended by faith.’

This is God’s Word, this is God’s Truth. This is from Heaven, not from men and it is therefore invincible. We must learn to say what [Paul] said in his Epistle to the Galatians in the first chapter.... ‘I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ’. I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by revelation of Jesus Christ.’ ‘A dispensation of the Gospel’, he says to the Corinthians and to others has been ‘committed unto me.’ This was his whole position and it must be ours. This is the Word of God! This is Revelation! This is infallible because it is God’s! This is the first weapon of our warfare. This is something which is to be proclaimed; not to be defended, but to be proclaimed; to be spoken with a holy boldness; to be ‘declared’ unto men. We do not need ‘dialogues’; we need ‘declarations’.

The Weapons of our Warfare, pp. 20–1