At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
The first witness that will come to take the stand in God's Courtroom - His name is Creation. You may think you are innocent by reason of ignorance, because you've never heard the Gospel. But in the last day, Creation will testify against you and prove you are guilty. God has showed it unto you by His creation of the world, and you are without excuse. The Creation testifies to the fact of a Creator (See Psalm 19:1). If there's a creation, you must have a Creator. For example, when you see a finely tuned piano, it has been crafted and tuned with expertise; when you see a watch that runs with precision, it has been made with intelligent design; when you see a skyscraper that is put together in symmetry and balance, there has been an architect and builder behind it all; and when you go outside at night and look up into the starry sky that has been put together with order and system, there had to be a Creator that made the whole complex universe. The Creation is the witness that is seen by your eye; Creation is the outward objective witness that will condemn you.
Then, there is a second witness that will come to the stand - His name is Conscience. He will speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth concerning your entire life (private and public). The Conscience is the witness of your heart; it is the inward subjective witness that will condemn you before God. You have a built-in knowledge of God. The soul of every man is restless till it rests in Christ Jesus. All the times you have ever violated and quelled your conscience has been noted in God's record book. God made every man to know Him, love Him, and serve Him, and till a man seeks, trusts, and surrenders to his Maker (Jesus Christ), he is like a round peg in a square hole.
The third witness will be sitting behind the bar at the Judgment - the last witness will be your Judge - His name is Jesus Christ. *Acts 17:31* You have heard the witness of Christ through His Gospel in your ear. Now hearken diligently and hear the Gospel once again - You have sinned against God, and it is inevitable that your sin should be followed by punishment. “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” and a judge who never punishes wrong does not do right, but neglects his office. God is love, but as a necessary consequence, He is also sternly just. The omission of justice from God's character would be the omission of an essential ingredient of love. God, therefore, must punish your sin, and every transgression of yours must have its just recompense of reward. But God's only-begotten Son, in wondrous compassion to our sinful souls, came into this world, took upon Himself our nature, and He was the Godhead living in human flesh, and, being found in fashion as a man, He suffered, bled, and died in our place to pay the full penalty which was due to the law of God.
Christ Jesus took our sin debts upon Himself, and upon the cross, by death, He discharged them all: when we simply trust in what Christ did for us, all our sins are blotted out, and can never be mentioned against us any more forever. Jesus was an actual, literal, and efficient substitute for sinners. Believe in Him and live forever. According to His own saying, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” The Holy Bible tells us that the Son of man was lifted up and now “Whosoever believeth in Jesus should not perish, but have everlasting life.” And yet again, “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Jesus' shed blood has made a full atonement for the sins of all who believe in Him, and they are therefore justified freely in the sight of God. True faith focuses completely on Jesus Christ, and not on human merit at all. Believing is, relying upon, or trusting in Christ's works, not human works. True belief is not a mere assent to a dogma or doctrine, or the acknowledgment of a fact of the past. It is simple trust - trust in that Christ who died upon the cross, that, through His merit, He can remove our guilt and punishment and love of sin. Trust also that Christ who rose from the dead and is gone into heaven, that, by the power of His eternal Spirit, He can now cleanse us from the dominion and habit of sin. That is the faith which saves - trust in the living Lord Jesus Christ, who is able to save unto the uttermost them that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them. Turn from your love of sin and self-righteousness, and put all your trust in Jesus' blood and righteousness.
So, your eye has seen and refused to acknowledge the Creation, your heart has heard and violated your Conscience, and your ear has heard and rejected the Gospel and Jesus Christ - these are the three witnesses that will testify against you in the last day.
Atheists are not atheists because of intellectual problems, they are atheists because of moral problems. Professing themselves to be wise, they become fools. Every man has a God consciousness. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. An atheist is somebody that has an idea of God that makes him uncomfortable is his sinfulness. The atheist thinks that if he can get rid of the idea of God, he can get rid of his uncomfortable feeling of conviction down deep in his heart. An atheist is like the man who bought a new boomerang, and then killed himself trying to throw his old one away. Down in the heart of every atheist is his conscience (John 1:9). Every heathen has some light from the Creation and his Conscience, and he knows that a Creator God exists. Light refused increases darkness, and Light rejected becomes lightning. You can't put Truth on ice. You can't put truth in your pocket and say, "That's very interesting, I will spend that some day if I need it." The atheist's foolish heart becomes darkened, because he loves his sin.
The opposite of Truth is not error, the opposite of Truth is Sin. The error and unbelief is the baggage that comes with Sin. The reason any man refuses the truth of the Scriptures is because of the love for sin in his heart. They hold the truth in unrighteousness, that is, they resist, smother, and hold back the truth and would rather enjoy their sin and darkness for a season, and cast away their soul and the world to come. If an atheist chooses to believe in the God of the Bible, he will have to adjust his dirty, crooked lifestyle. If I admit there is a God and Sin and Hell, I will have to change my rotten private life. Since the atheist doesn't receive the love of the Truth, God sends him delusion, that he should believe a lie (evolution), that he might be damned, who believed not the Truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness (filthy sinful thoughts and deeds). If you love your sin, you end up gettting delusion, a lie, and eternal damnation from God. Truth or greed, the Gospel or lust, it's your choice. All people have some light, and Light rejected becomes lightning. Professing themselves to be wise, they become fools.
Spiritual light obeyed increases light. Creation and Conscience bring you to the realization of the fact of God. If a man is not first interested in the fact of God, he is definitely not interested in the Way to God (Jesus Christ). All men don't have enough light to save them, but they do have enough light to damn them. When you obey the light you do have, God will give you more light. The problem is not in the head, the real problem in down in the heart. If any man will do God's will, he shall know of the doctrine. A man must will to do the will of God.
An atheist is a person who says there is no God. An atheist doesn't even know 1% of all there is to know, so God could exist in the other 99.9% of the knowledge he doesn't have. The Latin word for agnostic means ignoramus. There's two kinds of Doubters: honest doubters and dishonest doubters. An honest doubter doesn't know, but he wants to know, and therefore he investigates. A dishonest doubter doesn't know, because he doesn't want to know, and he can't find God for the same reason a thief can't find a policeman - he's not looking for him. Atheists hate the Light, and they will not come to the Light, because their deeds are evil. The problem is not the intellect, the problem is in your will. God will speak to you, if you surrender your will to Him.
God is going to judge you by the light you've rejected. Romans 2:5,11 There is no respect of persons with God. God knows how much light you have. There are churches on every corner, and Bibles in almost every store you shop in today. What is God going to do with you at the Judgment? Men will be judged according to the light they have. Obey what you do know, and God will teach you what you don't know.
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them (conscience); for God hath shewed it unto them (Creation). For when the Gentiles which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the Law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the Law written in their hearts, their Conscience also bearing witness and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another; In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to the Gospel.
God, I don't know if you exist or not. I don't know if the Bible is your word or not. I don't know if Jesus Christ is your Son or not. I really don't know, but I want to know. And because I want to know, I will make an honest investigation. And because it's an honest investigation, I will follow the results of that investigation wherever they lead me, regardless of the cost. Begin to read the Gospel of John, and say, "God, I will obey you if you show me this is your word."
