I BELIEVE ALL OF
GOD’S WORD
By Pastor Max
Solbrekken, D.D.
Jesus
rebuked His disciples who doubted that He had risen from the dead: “O fools,
and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.” (Luke 24:
25); “Why are ye troubled? And why do thoughts arise in your hearts? And
when He had thus spoken, He showed them His hands and His feet.” (Luke 24:
38-40)
“Afterward He appeared unto the eleven as
they sat at meat and upbraided them for their UNBELIEF and
HARDNESS OF HEART because they believed not them which had seen
Him after He was risen.” (Mark 16: 15)
St. Paul testified before King Agrippa:
“But this I confess unto thee, that after the WAY which they call heresy, so
worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in
the law and the prophets:
“And have hope toward God…that there shall
be a resurrection of the just and the unjust.” (Acts 24: 14,15). Jesus
said: “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” (John
8: 32)
During the past 50 years it has been my
privilege to serve God and my fellowman in many nations of the world as a
Minister of the Gospel. By God’s grace I have spoken the words of Jesus
Christ thousands of times to huge crowds of spiritually hungry people.
It has been my joy to look at
a sea of faces and upraised hands in surrender to the Lord and hear their
prayers of repentance and faith in response to the preaching of God’s Word!
JESUS CHRIST ALONE
SAVES!
Our Lord said: “I am the Way, the Truth
and the Life. No man cometh unto the Father but by Me.” (John 14: 6); “I
am the Door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved.” (John 10:
9-10); “I am the Good Shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the
sheep.” (John 10: 11)
“Behold I stand at the door
and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in unto Him
and sup with him and he with Me.” (Rev. 3: 20);
“Come unto me all ye that labour
and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.” (Matt.11: 28); “He
that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out.” (John 6: 37)
By God’s grace, I have led hundreds of
thousands of precious souls in the Sinner’s Prayer in our crusades using those
power - filled words.
And I have personally witnessed the
changed lives of many people after they sincerely and humbly bowed their knees
and hearts before Almighty God in repentance and faith.
Jesus Christ’s finished work on Calvary’s
cross and His victorious resurrection from the dead, changes lives!
THEY BELIEVE
THE COSMIC LIAR!
Even though the Gospel of Christ is
totally reliable, compelling and available, and the Holy Bible has been
proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be inspired, authoritative and inerrant, yet
multitudes still refuse to receive the risen Christ as their Lord and Saviour!
They doubt the Word of God but believe a
damnable lie without an honest investigation of the facts! How could this travesty
happen? The only possible explanation is found in God’s Word:
“The god of this world hath blinded the
minds of them who believe not … that they may be damned.” (2 Cor.4: 3-4; 1
John 2: 11; Rom.1: 28); “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into
the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were
evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the
light, lest his deeds should be reproved.” (John 3: 19, 20)
WINSTON CHURCHILL said: “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth
has a chance to get its pants on.”
Then
you will understand why millions of uneducated and gullible people believed the
outright lies and manufactured myths like the Da Vince Code, Jesus Papers
and other garbage written by pea brains Dan Brown and Michael
Baigent. And promoted by their money-hungry Hollywood lapdogs Ron
Howard and Tom Hanks!
THESE ARE PERILOUS
DAYS!
Many of the people inhabiting this planet
are very wicked. Antichrist forces are at work everywhere trying to remove
faith in God’s Word from the minds and hearts of people.
Satan’s goal is to bring God down to an
unreal and superstitious figure, thus relegating His Word to the category of
myths and fairy tales of folklore!
These sinister, dark and unholy powers are
at work today through the brain washing technique of political correctness,
sarcasm, bigotry and hatred of Evangelical Christianity!
They are using academia, religious cults,
apostate churches, governments, print and broadcasting media – to infiltrate,
brainwash, ridicule and destroy faith in God, the Holy Bible and eternal
salvation through the vicarious, all - atoning death of Jesus Christ on the
cross and His glorious resurrection from the dead!
MANY CHRISTIANS SLEEP!
The sad truth is that while Christians are
sleeping, Satan is desperately working to deceive, enslave and empower lustful,
proud and spiritually empty individuals to do his unholy dirty work!
While Christians sleep, Satan works
furiously through his emissaries, henchmen and cohorts! He is never idle and works untiringly since he has a
cadre of flunkies – some unwittingly and others willingly - doing his bidding.
Using the New Age Movement and
apostate theologians with connections to reputable
Seminaries and Bible Colleges, ‘the Cosmic Liar’ has manipulated
a cacophony of organized Church bodies and recognized clergymen to be his
errand boys.
ENOCH PROPHESIED OF APOSTATES!
And a number of compromising, lust-filled
theologians have joined with the Evil One to wallow in the murky waters of so-called
higher criticism of the Holy Scriptures, causing doubt by their
irreverent and confusing babblings!
May God have mercy on the congregations
where these modern day ‘Judas and Quisling’ copycats are
employing their parasitic actions! And may all Christians awaken to the danger
posed by this dangerous ‘fifth column’ in our midst and that such
apostates be exposed and driven from their lofty and lucrative positions!
The Holy Bible emphasizes: “Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities
about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going
after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of
eternal fire.
“And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam,
prophesied of these, saying, Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of His
saints. To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly
among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of
all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.” (Jude 7-13)
St. Peter warns of the judgment that those
who trifle with God’s Word will receive: “But there were false prophets also
among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily
shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and
bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their
pernicious ways; by reason of whom the Way of Truth shall be evil spoken of.
THE DAY OF JUDGMENT!
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly
out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be
punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of
uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed,
they are not afraid to speak of dignities.
“And they shall receive the reward of
unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the daytime. Spots
are they and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while
they feast with you.
“Having eyes full of adultery, and that
cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls; an heart they have exercised
with covetous practices; cursed children.” (2 Peter 2:1,2,9,10-14)
PAUL DIDN’T PULL ANY PUNCHES!
St. Paul didn’t play pussycat with those who
sought to pervert the right ways of God. He played hardball with them! Here are
some of his correctional words:
“O
foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth,
before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among
you.
“Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made
made perfect by the flesh? He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles
among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?” (Gal.3: 1-4)
When Elymas the sorcerer tried to turn the
deputy of Paphos, Sergius Paulus
from the faith, St. Paul said: “O full of all subtlety and all mischief,
thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease
to pervert the right ways of the Lord?” (Acts 13: 6-12)
Immediately, he was stricken with blindness
and the deputy believed the Gospel. Hallelujah!
The Bible says of itself: “For the Word of God is quick (alive) and powerful, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul (mind)
and spirit, and of the joints and the marrow, and is a discerner of the
thoughts and the intents of the heart.” (Heb.4: 12)
WHAT DOES THAT
MEAN?
We do not sit in judgment of the Word of
God. We must conform to its laws, counsel and admonition. We dare not judge
God’s Word. It judges us!
The Word of God ministers to every area of
our lives: spirit, soul and body! It brings the life of Jesus into our inner
man, peace to our minds and divine healing to our bodies!
