You Have Moses and the Prophets—and the Gospels and the Epistles!

Luke 16:29–31 Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’ ”

There is a convicting implication here about the level of hard heartedness required to neglect reading Scripture and hearing biblical preaching.

The living God has bestowed upon us His written Word, and the preaching of it by His servants. If we neglect to hear these, we are of such full, stubborn, resistant characters that we are sure to be unmoved if even someone rises from the dead and addresses us. 

Do you read your Bible, dear reader? Do you hear biblical preaching whenever you can? The Lord has given these to us, and if we neglect them, we treat with contempt both His glory and the good of our souls.

—Adapted from Archibald Hall in Gospel Worship