Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen. Our theme chorus, Amazing Love, how can it be that thou my God should die for me, already in it indicates that this is a fundamental gospel program. The story of Christ's redeeming love must be proclaimed, for it is the only hope for a sin-stricken world. We trust you will listen prayerfully. The Gospel Center choir is ready to sing, O Wonderful Love. As ever in need were the wordless in flame, He bore my betrayers my sin and my faith, And in me the body of counsel is free. He could spare the one gift that I find you free. Oh, what a flood that Oh, beautiful love has left me with him. He is here by chance and now I am saved. Oh, I am saved, I am saved. The glory of the Father who shall be in love Be near me, I'll go near before his return, Because I am part of his life by his blood, And will there shall be a living the earth in a flood? Oh, unto love, and faith is the same. Oh, unto love, that when she was in. Jesus, my greatness, and now I am saved. But now if you see God, I am saved, I am saved, I am saved. In the heart, in the hollow of his head. In the heart of the Lord, in the love for every one, for every one of you, for every one of you, For it is full day and night, like the blood of God, with the blood of his blood. Our gracious Father, we thank thee that of all earth's singing, the most wonderful theme is that of the wonderful Savior of our wonderful love of our Lord Jesus Christ. We thank thee, he came down to meet our soul's deep need. And we thank thee, in him, there is salvation full and free. We ask that thy blessing may be upon this program as we seek to exalt that wonderful Savior, that sinners may be drawn to him. We ask thy blessing in his worthy and precious name. Amen. Good with rapture, my cavern and woe, The strides were transported by men who bore. It was through my soul, from God's hands were so has been born again. I'll sing it, I'll tell it wherever I go. I want you to hear it, I want you to know of salvation that makes the heart more. Oh, I have been born again. I know I've received I've the witness with this. God has saved me and cleansed me from fear. And now I'm rejoicing and living in him. Oh, I have been born again. I'll sing it, I'll tell it wherever I go. I want to hear it. I want to know what's mine of salvation that makes the heart go. I have been born again. The title of the fortieth psalm is, Jehovah delivers and upholds. I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the mirey clay, and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Many, O Lord, my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to usward. They cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Sacrifice and offering thou didst not require. Mine ear hast thou opened, burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, lo I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me. I delight to do thy will, O my God, yea, thy law is within my heart. so far as the wind so long from far away before the light and cold and cold again with that we come today When the Lord shall be saved, thou shalt be saved, thou shalt be saved. For it might happen against the wall With my heart I was ready To make a way Thou shalt be saved A many gladness where it went, let me to open it. With one you come, by the way, in eternal day. You bring the love from heaven alone, within the heart of the day. You bring the love from heaven, Can it be right for me to go on in this dark, uncertain way? Say I believe and yet not know whether my sins are put away. Not know my trespasses forgiven until I meet him in the air. Not know that I shall get to heaven until I wake and find me there. Not know my state till on my brow beams the celestial diadem. Why surely all the world will know that I am a pardoned sinner then. Must clouds and darkness veil my brow until I dwell with saints in light? and must I walk in darkness now because I cannot walk by sight? Shall I put then begin to say, Father, thine every word is true, and cast my doubts and fears away, and all the world will own it too? Is this the way to treat the God who bids me trust and lovies him now? Is this the way to use the word given to guide me here below? Can I go forth to sinners and tell of grace so rich and free if all the while I do not know whether that grace has smiled on me? How can I be like Christ below? How like my Lord in witness shine, unless with conscious joy I know his Father and his God has mine. Thank you. Becoming faithful every night, God will take care of you. Being in peace, the love of life, God will take care of you. God will take care of you. Do every day your home away. He will take care of you. God will take care of you. life of faith God will take care of you with Jesus is your path of faith God will take care of you God will take care of you day, for all those days, if they do, they never do, but they'll take care of you. Whenever God may be the same, God will take care of you. He will be one of us of His grace, God will take care of you. God will take care of you through every day or all the way. He will take care of you. God will take care of you. Some of you older people in my radio audience remember the death of President Harding. And tonight it's my pleasure to introduce to you the minister who preached President Harding's funeral sermon, Mr. George M. Landis, who more recently is from near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He has a very important subject, and the subject is the inspiration of the scriptures. Listen now to Mr. George M. Landis. May we read from Second Timothy, chapter three, verses sixteen and seventeen. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished, unto all good works. In these days of widespread unbelief, we are not only avowed skeptics, but even some reputed church leaders, and so-called Christian teachers are casting doubt upon the scriptures. Two questions demand consideration. The first is, do we have a revelation from God? And the second is the Bible, that revelation. Reason says we ought to have a revelation from God. Assuming the existence of a personal God, the creator of man, and granting man's responsibility to God, Then, in the very nature of the case, God should reveal His will to man. How could man be expected to meet an obligation which he did not know, or submit to a will which has never been revealed? But if the mind says we ought to have a revelation from God, the heart cries out, we must have a revelation from God. The heart craves certainty. It is not satisfied with speculated theories and the possibilities or even the probabilities of man's philosophies. Were we made for a time as a brute creation, or are we creatures of eternity? What lies beyond the farther shore of that cold and sullen stream which bounds the frontiers of our present state of existence? If there is life after death, if an endless eternity lies ahead of us, Will it be one of blessing or of woe? If these two alternatives are before me, how can I, depraved by sin and compassed by frailty, be able to avoid the woe and gain the blessing? We cannot stand long. Upon the shifting sands of human speculation, we crave a rock beneath our feet, having been disillusioned by our own failures and by the failures of others, and having seen the vanity of much of man's reasoning, our souls demand certainty. We may be speaking to some this morning who regard the Bible as God's Word. We certainly hope it is His revelation to man. but they are unable to give a reason for the hope that is within them. Perhaps you are a little disturbed by the doubts cast upon the Bible by men whom you recognize as much more scholarly than yourself. You would welcome a word of reassurance on the subject that your belief in the inspiration of the Scriptures might be buttressed. If God has spoken, it is of supreme importance that we heed His message. If God has spoken, it is of equally important that His followers give His message to others. The inspiration of the Scriptures, as well been called, the keel of Christianity, which, if removed, will cause the ship to topple over and engulf all on board in the waves of doubt and agnosticism. Second, it is the keystone in the arch of truth, which, if displaced, will cause the collapse of that arch and all that it supports. Third, it is the very foundation of the faith which, if undermined, will result in the utter destruction of the entire superstructure of Christianity. As the Bible itself says, if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Modern infidelity under the pretentious guise of advanced scholarship has done much to shape the faith of this generation in the authority of God's Word. Many who fill professors' chairs and some prominent popes are very open in their attack on the true inspiration of the scriptures. What was once the argument of the infidel is now the final victim of an agreed scholarship. As we said last week, the enemies of the Bible cannot destroy the Bible, but they can and do destroy the confidence of many in the Bible, so that they turn from its message of light and salvation and virtually close the gate of heaven in their own faces. To illustrate the point, I may be trying to find my way to a strange country, in a strange country, by following what claims to be an official road map. As I force to examine my map, a stranger approaches me and says, My friend, surely you are not so foolish as to consult that obsolete, unreliable, and unauthentic road map. Do you not know that it is printed by a deluded man, who himself did not know the directions? No one consulted any more, save a few simple-minded women and children, and a few very aged people, now in their duties. I urge that you discard at once. Perhaps I follow this stranger's advice only to find that I am hopelessly lost. I asked him, did this stranger's denial change one word or direction on the map? Did it remove one mile of highway or destroy a single bridge? No, nothing was changed or destroyed except my faith in the map. And I was the one to suffer for believing the stranger's lie instead of the map. The Scriptures claim to be the inspired word of God. Some may object to receiving the Bible's testimony concerning itself on the ground that is reasoning in a circle. But when the testimony of a witness has been found true in respect to certain facts of history, science, and morals, we are warranted in assuming that he is feeding the truth when he testifies about himself. For example, The Bible says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. As I look at myself and at others, I must admit this testimony is true. It also declares, The way of the transgressor is hard. Again, after over sixty years of experience and observation, I must receive this statement as true. And then, it adds, The wages of sin is death. Every tombstone that dot the surface of the earth corroborates this testimony. And these are but three of three thousand statements of the Scriptures which any person can verify. So my confidence in the witness is strengthened, and I believe what it says about itself. The Bible writers, both of the Old and the New Testament, claim inspiration for their messages as well as for the messages of each other. It has been found that such expressions, as the Lord said, the Lord spake, and the word of the Lord came, occurred no less than three thousand eight hundred and eight times in the Old Testament alone. Hear the words of the Apostle Paul. For this cause also, thank we God without ceasing, because when ye receive the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the Word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. The Apostle Peter speaks along the same line when he says, For the prophecy came not in old time, by the will of men, but holy men of God, state as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. Several times in the opening chapters of the Revelation we have the statement of the Apostle John, the last of the twelve, He that hath an ear to hear, Let him hear what the Spirit set unto the churches. But the supreme witness to the divine inspiration of the Scriptures is the Lord Jesus Christ himself. Here is the truth and the wisdom of God. Listen to but a few of his utterances on the subject. Think not that I am come to destroy the law and the prophet. I am not come to destroy but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one shot or one pistol, shall in no ice pass from the law till all be fulfilled. Then said he unto them, O fools and slow of hearts to believe, all of the prophets have spoken, and beginning as Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which are written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalms concerning me. In his final discourse with his disciples, as recorded in John's Gospel, in predicting the coming and ministry of the Holy Spirit, the Lord Jesus said, He, that is the Holy Spirit, will bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said of these, fulfilled in the inspiration of the Gospel. He will guide you into all the truth, fulfilled in the inspiration of the Acts and the epistles, and He will show you things to come, fulfilled in the inspiration of the revelation. Thus we see that Christ pre-authenticated the New Testament scriptures. Who would dare to infer that Christ was seeking to deceive his disciples, or that he was himself possessed of some vain delusion, fancying that he was speaking the truth? If I cannot believe what he said about the scriptures, neither can I credit his invitation. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Or those other words of matchless comfort, let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also it me. In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also. God has spoken in the Scriptures. Let us believe what he says. How precious is the book divine, by inspiration given, bright as the lamp its doctrine shines, the guide our souls to heaven. If light descending from above our gloomy world to cheer, displays a Savior's boundless love and brings his glories near. It shows to man his wandering ways and where he feet of trust and brings to view the matchless grace of a forgiving God. His sweetly cheers our grouping heart in this dark veil of tears. light, light and joy, its filling part, and quell our rising tears. This lamp, through all the tedious night of light, shall guide our way, till we behold the clearer light of an eternal day. Gone is all my dead of sin, What a change is brought within, And to live I now begin, risen from the fall. the dead I did not pay. Someone died for me one day, sweeping all the dead away. Jesus paid it all. Jesus died and paid it on the cross of Calvary. And my heart was melted at his dying call. Oh, his heart was broken, all the tree for you and me, and the dead of death fell. Jesus paid it all. not for me alone, did the Son of God atone, your death too he made his own, on the cruel tree. Come to him with all your sins, Be as white as snow is in Full salvation you may win and rejoiced with me. Jesus died and faded on the cross of Calvary, and my heart was melted at his dying call. Oh, his heart was broken, On the tree for you and me is, And the dead is dead and killed. Jesus paid it all.