So, you see, life DOES have a lot of unpleasant things, doesn’t it? Many of us know that for a fact. But who knows? Maybe even those unpleasant things will eventually “work together for good to them that love the Lord.” And maybe we will have become better as a result of it all.

My!! What a God we worship tonight!! He’s a God Who knows all, He’s everywhere, He can do all, and nothing is impossible for Him. HE has instruments we never thought about. He can move things in a way we never dreamed possible. Our going to the moon? God permitted that. It was according to God’s law of nature. It was according to certain other things that, otherwise, wouldn’t have allowed it to be done. And in life, that’s the case. God has His laws in a physical sense, and science is just watching God work. That’s all. God’s the Author of science, just as He is the Author of the Bible. It’s one thing, what people THINK science has proved; and it’s another thing, to KNOW what science has actually proved. The same way, it’s one thing, what people THINK the Bible says, and it’s another thing to KNOW what the Bible actually says. There’s never been any discrepancy or conflict in a KNOWN FACT of the Bible and a KNOWN TRUTH of the Bible, because God’s the Author of it, you see? Science can serve us, but it can’t save us. It can tell us what IS, but not what OUGHT to be. It can provide goods, but not goodness. It deals with the materials around us, but not with the morals within us. Science can make life more comfortable, but not more comforting. Only God can do that!

Paul said, “I know Whom I have believed,” 2 Timothy 1:12. Do you? I don’t mean just know ABOUT God—even the devils knows that! James 2:19. You don’t have to convince the devil there is a God. He knows that! And in Luke 4:41, some of the demons even confessed Jesus to be the Son of God. But they were still demons. It’s not enough to know ABOUT God. You need to KNOW God! And Paul did. DO you?

Do you realize that we can boldly come unto the throne of grace? Hebrews 4:16. We do this not timidly, not in a bragging way, because we have nothing to brag about; all we have was given by God. Paul said, “What do you have that you didn’t receive? You received it, why do you boast as though you didn’t?” 1 Corinthians 4:7. It was God Who advanced Moses and Aaron, 1 Samuel 12:6. It was God Who put wisdom in the heart of Solomon, 2 Chronicles 9:23. Paul said, “God made us able ministers,” 2 Corinthians 3:6. And in 1 Peter 4:11, God gives us our ability. In Deuteronomy 8:18, He said, “God gave men the ability to get riches.” Howard Hughes? Bill Gates? You name them! Whoever has had a lot of riches, God gave him the ability to do it. Everything is from God.

So, we have no reason for boasting. But with all assurance, we, as His creatures, can come boldly unto the throne of grace, and claim all that He has promised us. Isn’t it wonderful that God has shown so much love, so much interest, and so much care! And we are told to “cast all of our cares upon Him, for He cares for us,” 1 Peter 5:7. “The fool said in his heart that there is no God,” Psalm 14:1; Psalm 53:1. But some “didn’t like to retain God in their knowledge,” Romans 1:28. Some actually said to God, “Depart from us, we don’t desire knowledge of Your Ways,” Job 21:14. You and I can come unto God and call upon Him. We can expect certain things from Him, because He promised to do these certain things. We can lean heavily upon Him.

And actually, in each of us, there is a part of God. Unlike the brute, unlike the lower forms of animals, in each of us there is a part that will live as long as God lives. There is within each of you a part, which is as indestructible as God is, and that part is for eternity. In Ecclesiastes, He said that we’re born for eternity. God put eternity in the hearts of men. And so we’re going to live forever, either with the Lord, or away from the Lord. That’s why He said, “It’s a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God,” Hebrews 10:31. But it’s even more fearful to fall OUT of the hands of a living God.