Truth a Mighty Weapon by M. G. Huffman

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 4, 1913

Truth a Mighty Weapon

By M. G. Huffman

M. G. HUFFMAN

PILATE, as Jesus stood before him, inquired, “Art thou a king?” Mark the answer: “To this end . . . came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. Pilate saith unto him, What is truth?” At another time Jesus answered the question by saying, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”

What a mighty weapon is truth! Who can stand against it? There is no power that can overcome it; no power can thwart its purpose. God’s word is truth, and it “liveth and abideth forever.” It has gone out of his mouth, and it shall not return unto him void, but shall accomplish that which he pleases, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto he sent it.

In consequence of the lie Satan introduced in the garden of Eden, and by which he decoyed our first parents into transgressing God’s holy law, man lost his dominion, and was separated from his beautiful Eden home.

The great arch-deceiver has introduced another falsehood: he has established a rest day to usurp the place of the rest day God instituted, designating it as the Lord’s day, and has succeeded in getting nearly the whole world to believe that the rest day he instituted is the Sabbath. But, praise the Lord, the true servants of God are meeting this error with the sole weapon of truth,—the same weapon that has been wielded for the last six thousand years,—and today the honest-hearted all over the world are being brought to see, and by the Spirit of God are being impressed to accept, the truth, and are thus preparing to meet the Author of truth.

The Sabbath institution is perpetual. “Think not,” said Christ, “that I am come to destroy the law. . . . I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” Thus all can see that this law, of which the Sabbath is a part, is perpetual, unchangeable, from the fact that the Sabbath is of divine origin. It was instituted to supply a perpetual moral need of man. For “the Sabbath was made for man,”—man in the broadest sense of the word,—for all men in all ages. The very nature of the law establishes the Sabbath a perpetual institution. The universal acceptance of the Sabbath idea proves that it is recognized by all denominations as a perpetual institution. The Sabbath was made for all men of all ages. It cannot be abrogated.

God does not, and could not, abrogate the law of the Sabbath and still remain the God of Israel, who “inhabiteth eternity” and is from “everlasting to everlasting,” who changeth not, but is “the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” Hence the Sabbath is of perpetual obligation. The Sabbath was made before man sinned, and therefore the seventh-day Sabbath institution was made and kept before the time of Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob. The Sabbath was given to ancient Israel as a perpetual covenant, and comes from them to us.

We are told that Christ abrogated the ten commandments, and then reenacted all the law except the Sabbath. Christ did no such thing, for the law has never been abrogated nor repealed. All Christ did was to rid the Sabbath of the Jewish traditions, that it might appear in its original purity, for a blessing to all mankind. The Sabbath is a part of God’s eternal purpose, and constitutes a sign between man and his Creator, that man may know that the Lord is God, and there is none else.