Truth is Greater Than Love (Part 3)

Do you know who qualifies as “the worst missionary in the history of the world”? According to Dr. John Whitcomb, it was the prophet Jonah—the prophet that God sent to warn the nation of Assyria in the eighth century before Christ.
Is it not amazing that Jonah—who had even tried to escape from the call of God and run away—had no love at all for the Assyrian people, “the most horribly cruel nation in the ancient world, the Nazis of the ancient world”? And yet he delivered the message that the Lord had given him for the city of Nineveh.
Dr. Whitcomb views this as an example of speaking the truth—without love. It is still powerful, but it is not God’s ideal, nor is it the most effective way that we can minister the gospel, or any of God’s Word, which is true from the beginning to the end!
With host Wayne Shepherd, Whitcomb Ministries thanks you for listening to this message called, “Truth is Greater Than Love,” from our series on “Basic Biblical Distinctions.” It comes from a series of sermons that Dr. Whitcomb recorded at Grace Bible Church in Elkhart, Indiana. We are so glad to have their permission to present them to a wider audience here on “Encounter God’s Truth.”