God Hath Spoken (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...so that when his calamity should come upon him he would think that God had been unjust with him. It is plain that his stroke was not aimed at Job but at God Himself. In these, and in other examples of his activity that might be named, there is no suggestion of immorality. Morals are not the sphere in which he works. Having accomplished man's ruin in Eden, he has not found it necessary to tempt him to evil, for evil is the natural product of his corrupt heart, as the Lord declares in Mark 7:21-23: "For from within, out of the heart of man, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications. All these evil things come from within"; and James says that "every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed" (Jas. 1:14). Sins are "the works of the devil," indeed, and it is written that "he that sinneth is of the devil." But the Scripture definition of sin is "lawlessness" (1 John 3:4, R. V.). Its very essence is the revolt against God. Immorality is incidental. There are "unclean spirits" and Satan is their prince, and demoniacal possession may account for abnormal phases of depravity in men today. But not all demons are unclean, for the teachings of demons, against which we are warned in 1 Tim. 4:6 as a mark of the last days, inculcate the highest morality. But is not Satan denounced as a liar and a murderer? Yes, but what is the lie, and what is the murder? The murder is that of the Son of God, outcome of the lie of which Satan is the father. Hear the Lord's words: "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh the lie, he s...