Once the truth of God breaks into the human heart and subdues the whole man, no power—human or infernal—can dislodge it. We do not entertain truth as a guest. Truth is the master of the house. This is Christian necessity! You are no Christian at all if you do not believe this way.

Those who have felt the vital power of the gospel, who know the might of the Holy Spirit as he opens, applies, and seals God's Word—they would sooner be torn to pieces than torn away from the gospel of their salvation.

What a thousand mercies are wrapped up in this assurance: the truth will be with us forever! It will be our living support, our dying comfort, our rising song, our eternal glory. This is Christian privilege. Without it, our faith would be worth little.

Now, some truths we outgrow and leave behind—they are rudiments, lessons for beginners. But we cannot deal thus with divine truth! Though it is sweet food for babes, it is in the highest sense strong meat for men. The truth that we are sinners stays painfully with us to humble us and keep us watchful. The more blessed truth that whoever believes on the Lord Jesus shall be saved abides with us as our hope and joy.

Experience, far from loosening our hold on the doctrines of grace, has knit us to them more and more firmly. Our grounds and motives for believing are now stronger, more numerous than ever. And we have reason to expect it will be so until in death we clasp the Savior in our arms.

Wherever this abiding love of truth can be discovered, we are bound to exercise our love. No narrow circle can contain our gracious sympathies—wide as the election of grace must be our communion of heart! Much error may be mingled with truth received. Let us war with the error but still love the brother for the measure of truth we see in him.

And above all? Let us love and spread the truth ourselves.