Jesus Christ is the Son of God. To this truth I am very sure the Holy
Ghost will add his amen. In John the fifteenth chapter and the
twenty-sixth verse we read, "But when the Comforter is come, whom I
will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which
proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me." And if you would
know that Jesus Christ is God's Son I would suggest,
1. That you simply test him; try him in heathen lands and tell me if
any other story could thrill and transform as does the story of his
life and death. Dr. Torrey says that whether the story was told in
China or England, whether the story was told in India or Australia, it
was always the same and never was without effect.
2. Try him in your own life. One day in a service in a western city an
old woman was wheeled into the church in an invalid's chair. I knew by
the expression of her countenance that she was suffering. When I met
her after the service and asked her about her story she said as the
most excruciating pain convulsed her body, "I have not been free from
pain in twenty years and have scarcely slept a night through all that
time," and then, brushing the tears from her eyes, and with an
expectant face, she exclaimed, "but if I could tell you all that Jesus
Christ has been to me in these twenty years I could thrill you through
and through."
3. If you would know that he is the Son of God just lift him up and
behold him as he draws all men unto him. This is the secret of the
power of great preaching. It made Mr. Moody known whereever the
English language is spoken and constituted Mr. Spurgeon one of the
world's greatest preachers. As a matter of fact there is no other
theme which may be presented in the pulpit by the minister with an
assurance of the co-operation of the Holy Ghost. There may be times
when he may feel obliged to preach concerning philosophy, poetry, art
and science, but unless these things lead directly to Christ we have no
reason for believing that the Holy Ghost will add his amen to our
message, and without this amen the time is almost lost.