The word of God is powerful. It was mighty in creation. God “spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast” (Psalm 33:9). It will be authoritative and irresistible in the judgment.

Gamaliel Bradford, the well-known American biographer, admitted he was afraid to read the New Testament. It was superstitious fear. He was afraid it would change his long-cherished ideas and attitudes. It would, if he had given it a careful and sincere reading. Two prominent Englishmen, Gilbert West and Lord Lyttleton, agreed to assault the Bible and Christianity; but before they began their attack, they agreed honestly to examine the Scriptures. The result: Gilbert West wrote his Observations on the Resurrection, an able defense of the biblical account of our Lord’s rising from the dead; and Lord Lyttleton wrote his Observations on the Conversion and Apostleship of St. Paul, another masterpiece in apologetics. In later times, Sir William Ramsay went to Asia Minor with the book of Acts in his hands, expecting to discredit Luke as a historian. But his findings vindicated Luke at every point and changed Ramsay. Arthur T. Pierson has well observed: “If there is one candid doubter living who has faithfully studied the Bible and the evidences of Christianity, he has not yet been found” (Many Infallible Proofs, page 13.)