How Do We Know?

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 7, 1897

How do we know that Jesus Christ is the Saviour of the world? How do we know that he is our Saviour personally? What proof have we? Is it not from the Bible, the word of God? Do we not know all these things, because God has said so in his word? But if God does not mean what he says with reference to some of his precepts which men are trampling under foot, how do we know that he means what he says when he promises us forgiveness and salvation? Shall we hope in God's promise while we reject his precept? His life is in his word (John 6:63); shall we ask him for life in his promise that we may trample down his life in his precept? These, reader, are important questions.