An Impossible Thing for God
By E. W. Farnsworth
Jesus said to His disciples, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” In astonishment they inquired, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus replied that “with men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.” Matt. 19: 24-26. It certainly is a great comfort to the soul, when struggling with sin and the weaknesses of the flesh, to know that with God all things are possible. When darkness comes down, and the clouds lower, and losses come, and want stares us in the face, and the world, the flesh, and the devil, all combined, seem set in battle array,— then to know that all things are possible with God is a source of strength. It is assured victory to believe this truth. But this statement is modified by another equally precious and impressive: “It is impossible for God to lie.” Heb. 6: 18. There is one impossible thing with God—it is impossible for Him to lie. No one who believes in God at all would think that any physical thing is impossible with Him. But when it comes to what God says, there are many who doubt Him. “He that believeth not God hath made Him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of His Son.” It is at this point that most men fail. They think that they believe God, yet they do not believe the “record.” But to believe the record is to believe God, and to doubt the record is to disbelieve God. Let us state it another way: God says, “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” It is generally known that Saturday is the seventh day; and now God says, “The seventh day is the Sabbath,” and “it is impossible for God to lie.” It being an absolute fact that God cannot lie, it is also absolutely true that the seventh day is the Sabbath. To disbelieve that fact is to charge God with being a liar. God does not say that the seventh day was the Sabbath, but, “The seventh day is the Sabbath.” It is not a question of what was, but what is. God says the seventh day is the Sabbath now, and God cannot lie. Reader, do you believe God? or do you make Him a liar by not believing the record?