Mark 13:31
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.
Breathtaking words from Christ here, when one begins to think about it. His words would last longer than the heavens and the earth? Normal people don't say these things; mere humans don't say these things; crazy people might say things like this, or liars might, but liars on a grand and unimaginable scale.
It is statements like these from Christ that led C. S. Lewis to conclude:
"Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg - or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us."
Just so. We believe that when he said at his words will not pass away, that he was speaking the truth. What Christ said was eternal...and true...and our only hope.
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