Episode 87 - I Know Whom I Have Believed

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham.Daniel Whittle enlisted in the Illinois Infantry to fight in the Civil War. Yet, he had been severely wounded in the fighting at Vicksburg,, and captured by the Confederates. In his POW camp, Whittle began reading the New Testament. One night he was awakened and asked to pray with another prisoner who was about to die. He said, “I dropped on my knees and held the boy's hand in mine. In a few broken words, I confessed my sins and asked Christ to forgive me. I believed right there that He did forgive me.” He would later write in song a declaration of his faith:I know not why God's wondrous graceTo me He hath made known,Nor why, unworthy, Christ in loveRedeemed me for His own.When Jesus said, “And I give unto them eternal life,” He speaks to us with certainty that we are safe in the arms of Jesus.