Sometimes we wonder if the Gospel can do what we say it will do. How can truth so simple, so common, have such power to give life to the spiritually dead? But it does. The wisdom and glory of the eternal God shine in the foolishness of preaching. Do not despise the day of small things, or be discouraged because we are so feeble.

This work is for the glory of God, and any thing that will make that glory shine brighter is to be rejoiced in. This is what makes our salvation so great. How can such poor preaching convert such great sinners? People come to Christ by the simplest, plainest, most unadorned preaching of the Gospel. It is not the eloquence of the preacher that saves. The Holy Spirit speaks through Him with a power which eloquence can never equal.

The prophet spoke, “Ye dry bones live,” and they lived; but not because of his speaking. He spoke God’s Word to them. The power to quicken the dead does not lie in the wisdom of words but in the Spirit of the living God. By God’s Spirit, the spiritually dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear will live.