ONE MESSAGE-TWO DIFFERENT RESPONSES

Two men listen to the same sermon. One hears as attentively as the other and remembers as much of the sermon. One man is moved to tears over his sins and his heart broken within him, which leads him to seek mercy of the Lord. The other man sees in the sermon important truth, and he may feel the force of that truth strong enough to make him tremble like Felix; but, like Felix, he goes his way. Ask me how it is that the same sermon (the same truth) regenerates one and causes him to pass from death to life and into that gracious state which is called salvation, while the other man is unmoved and continues in unbelief. I reply it's because the mighty, mysterious Spirit of the living God goes with the truth to one heart but not to the other. This regeneration takes place instantly and is as miraculous a change as the raising of Lazarus from the dead. It is supremely supernatural!