Suppose that you were sentenced to imprisonment and that your friends secured a pardon for you. The legal document announcing your pardon is brought to you. You read it and know you are pardoned because the legal document says so, but the news is so good and so sudden that you are dazed by it. You do not realize that you are pardoned. Some one comes to you and says, “Are you pardoned?” What would you reply? You would say, “Yes, I am pardoned.” Then he asks, “Do you feel pardoned?” You reply, “No, I do not feel pardoned. It is so sudden, it is so wonderful, I cannot realize it.” Then he says to you, “But how can you know that you are pardoned if you do not feel it?” You would hold out the document and you would say, “This says so.” The time would come, after you had read the document over and over again and believed it, when you would not only know you were pardoned because the document said so but you would feel it. Now the Bible is God’s authoritative document declaring that every one that believeth in Jesus is justified; declaring that every one that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; declaring that every one who receives Jesus is a child of God. If any one asks you if your sins are all forgiven, reply, “Yes, I know they are because God says so.” If they ask you if you know that you are a child of God, reply, “Yes, I know I am a child of God because God says so.” If they ask you if you have everlasting life, reply, “Yes, I know I have everlasting life because God says so. God says, ‘He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.’ I know I believe on the Son, and therefore I know I have eternal life—because God says so.” You may not feel it yet but if you will keep meditating upon God’s statement and believing what God says, the time will come when you will feel it. For one who believes on the Son of God to doubt that he has eternal life is for him to make God a liar. “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in him. He that believeth not God, hath made Him a liar because he hath not believed in the witness that God hath borne concerning His Son and the witness is this, that God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath the life: he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life” (1 John 5: 10-12, R. V.). Any one who does not believe God’s testimony that He has given unto us eternal life and that this life is in His Son and that he that hath the Son hath the life, makes God a liar.