The Bible Is Truth — Dennis Balcombe

My name is Dennis Balcom. I'm actually an American, but I went to China about 42 years ago, and I've been a missionary in China. I have a church in Hong Kong called Revival Christian Church, and I've been so privileged in my 50 years of being a Christian to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.

A Vision to Bring the Gospel to China

I wanted to be a scientist and do something, contribute to humanity, but God saved me and filled me with the Holy Spirit and gave me a vision that He would open the door to China. Now, that was 50 years ago in 1961, and China was closed.

There was a cultural revolution. No missionaries were allowed. In fact, the churches and the Christians in China were not allowed to have open meetings, so they met in their homes. Now, I went to China in 1969 to Hong Kong.

I learned Cantonese. I can speak Cantonese fluently and Mandarin. And I prayed for many years that God would open the door to China, and in 1978, the doors opened. Well, I've been in China for all these many, many, 32 years now, preaching the gospel, some opposition, but China really is quite open compared to what it was before.

Christianity's Growth in China

The amazing thing about China, this was at one time we called a Buddhist nation. It became a Confucius nation. Then it became a communist nation, and everybody's been taught communism, yet everyone in China wants to know about God.

When you preach the gospel in China, people believe in Jesus Christ. In fact, according to some statistics, there's more Christians in China than all of North America and Europe. We have over 100, maybe 110 million Christians in China, but unlike the Christians in the West, because of the lifestyle, they're just kind of lukewarm.

In China, they love God. They go to church every day, and many times a week, they pray and preach the gospel. Without Bibles, without even many church buildings, without television or radio where the gospel is preached, people are coming to the Lord.

Jesus Christ as the Way, Truth, and Life

What is the reason? It's because what Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. Now, you look at communism teaches evolution and Marxism and atheism, and they have a lot of arguments. A lot of people don't believe in God for various reasons.

They say it's not scientific. They say evolution explains how we came here, not God creating us. Yet, in China, millions of people believe the Bible and believe Jesus Christ because he's the truth. Now, it may not make sense to many people, but when you begin to read the Bible and read what Jesus said about himself, he said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.

He said, if you've seen the Father, seen God, you've seen me. He said, before Abraham, there was, I was already existence. He said, I am the only way. Now, either Jesus was a crazy man, a deluded man, or else what he is saying is true.

You can have it both ways. Well, today, literally hundreds and hundreds of millions of people in the world believe what Jesus said is true. Now, let me tell you just briefly in these couple minutes why.

The Bible as God's Historically Verified Word

First of all, the Bible says so, and the Bible is the word of God. No one has been able to destroy the Bible. They tried to do that in China in the Cultural Revolution. Yet, now the Bible is the most widely read book all over the world, and the Bible has been proven true over and over again.

This is a fact, scientifically, archaeological discoveries, and these things prove the Bible. The more we learn, the more we find out the Bible is historically true. But secondly, even more than the facts of history, is the fact of what the Bible says God will do for people happens.

He changes people's lives. He gives people the Holy Spirit. He gives them new life. I've seen drug addicts that come off of drugs when they believe in Jesus. I've seen crippled people that have been healed just by prayer.

We've even actually seen people that have raised from the dead in China. You may not say, well, that's not possible, but it happens all over the world because God is all-powerful. He's the God that gives life, and I'm talking about people who have died for a few hours.

The doctor has no hope for them, but God brings them back to life and heals them, and many other miracles. The greatest miracle is the changed life that happens when people believe in Jesus Christ and accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.

Salvation Through Faith in Jesus Christ

And I want you to just believe in Jesus Christ. We don't want religion, not even Christian religion. We have a relationship with God. The gospel is the power of God, and all you have to do is to confess that you're a sinner, believe in Jesus Christ as your Savior, make Him the Lord of your life, repent of your sins, believe that Jesus rose from the dead, and ask Him to come into your life.

And if you do that, you will be saved. You will be born again, and that's the beginning of a new life. Well, I just want to bless you as you listen to this, that you will open your life to Jesus Christ, and like me, find purpose and meaning in life.

God bless you.