TOO POSITIVE by G. F. Haines

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 19, 1878

TOO POSITIVE.

By G. F. Haines

We are sometimes accused of being too positive in our preaching. Against the man who preaches error, the charge may be justly made; but how can one who preaches the truths of the Bible be too positive? For him to lack positiveness is to lack faith. The man who talks, and does not know what he is talking about, might as well keep silent.

When a man talks present truth, and does not know it is truth, others will not know it from his preaching. Brethren, the Lord is coming. The world is hearing from our lips the last message of warning they will ever hear; shall we give our congregations to understand that we are in doubt concerning these truths? When a man is being tried, our law requires, if there be a doubt in the case, that the prisoner receive the benefit of it, and he is always ready to take advantage of the law, though he may know he is guilty. Brethren, just give expression to a doubt, and Satan’s prisoners stand ready to use it to soothe their guilty consciences, even though they are guilty of the very things of which you have told them.

G. F. HAINES.