06.10. It Is A Merciful Book

10. IT IS A MERCIFUL BOOK The Bible contains the foundation of all law, yet it is a book of mercy. After telling man his "heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked," it says, "A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh." David heard this message, submitted to the operation and as soon as he came out from under the anesthetic we hear him shout, "My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed."

It writes man’s history, but says to him if you don’t like it, "If any man be in Christ he is a new creature." Thank God we can get rid of the old life and the old biography and have a new one in Christ Jesus. The Bible assures man he is lost, then tells him that the "Son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." It is a merciful book, and after showing up man with his sin, writing his biography and taking his picture, in spite of his hatred for the Word of God and all he has done to destroy it, it comes in mercy with the message, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."