“Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.”- Psa. 119:160“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” – Psa. 119:105

I just read about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. a doctor who became interested in the use of ether to anesthetize patients who were having procedures done. To better understand its effects, he decided to administer it to himself one day. He found himself in a dreamy state and awoke believing he had suddenly grasped the key to all the mysteries of the universe. But he was unable to recall what he had learned. So he decided to put himself under again with a stenographer by his side to record whatever he said. Coming out of the daze, Holmes asked his stenographer if he’d said anything that might give insight to the mysteries of the universe.The assistant looked down at her notebook and read, “The entire universe is permeated with a strong odor of turpentine.”

Holmes arrived at a wrong conclusion because he looked in the wrong place for the answer. That’s a common problem with man. Some things will be with us for the rest of our lives, and one of those is questions. Regardless of how much we study, how many degrees we get, of what our IQ is, there will always be questions. No one understands everything about anything. And in many cases that doesn’t really matter. But other things matter a great deal. They are of great importance and we must take great care in where we look for the answers. There is only one source that is absolutely trustworthy and that’s God’s Word.

We ought to think of the Bible as God’s answer book for man’s needs. It has the answers to all the most important questions and issues of life. And to sum it all up in a word, it is “Christ”. Andrae Crouch wrote a song that said, “Jesus is the answer for the world today. Above Him there’s no other, Jesus is the way”. Truer words were never spoken! “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” ( John 14:6). Now notice where Jesus sends us for the solution to our questions – “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” – John 5:39. – HDS

David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346 

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”- James 1:22

“Lord, to whom shall we go?” – John 6:68

In these days when we hear so many say, “One religion is just as good as another” we need to give serious consideration to this question. All roads might have led to Rome, but all religions do not lead to heaven. Jesus Himself made this clear in John 14:6 where He said, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Commenting on our text, Vance Havner wrote:

Where could we go? Look down all other roads and see what they have to offer. It is Christ or else. The wisdom of man, the religions of the world, have no answer to the soul’s desperate cry, “Where could I go but to the Lord?”

Where would we go? If we do not follow the Light we go out into darkness, utter and eternal. We would go to hell if we did not go to Him. “He that believeth not is condemned already.”

Where should we go? To Jesus of course. Plain common sense tells us that nothing else satisfies. He has proven His case long ago. We ought to be Christians. God commands us to repent and believe.

It is a matter of eternal alternatives: saved or lost, justified or condemned, heaven or hell. “He that is not with me is against me.”

“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man.” “I am the way.” Which way are you going? 

David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346

“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.”- Matt. 7:21

David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346 

“And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.”- 1 Sam. 15:22

Many people set a great deal more stress on religious rituals, than upon practical obedience. They will be faithful in attendance upon church services, devout and reverent in worship–and yet in their daily life, they will disregard the plain commandments of God! They fill the week with selfishness, pride, bitterness, and evil-speaking, and then go to church on Sunday, with great show of devotion, to engage in the worship of God!

But what God desires before our worship can be acceptable, is that we obey what He commands us. He bids us to love one another, to be unselfish, patient, kind, honest, pure, true; and unless we obey these commands, our religious rituals, no matter how conspicuous, how costly, how seemingly devout and reverent, are not acceptable to God!

There are many other phases of the truth. It is exact obedience which God desires, and not something else of our own substituted. When he tells a mother to care for her child, He is not satisfied if she neglects that duty to attend church. When God wants a man to help a poor family in some obscure street, He is not satisfied if instead of that lowly service, the man does some brilliant thing that seems to bring ten times as much honor to the Lord.

The supreme thing in Christian life–is to obey God; without obedience nothing else counts. The obedience must also be exact, just what God commands, not something else. “If you love Me–you will keep My commandments.” John 14:15 (J R Miller)

David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346