Once people lose confidence in God's Word they soon disobey it. Deny or disbelieve that the Scripture is God's word, and evil will triumph in the end. Often the temptation to doubt and question the Word of God comes to us through the lips of clever men, able men, attractive men, men to be admired, respectable men. We are tempted to dip our colors. When men do this they may call themselves a church, but it is not the church of God.
People everywhere are in search of the truth.
Many grope in darkness. Martin Luther was long tormented by a desperate search for the forgiveness of his sins. When he discovered the Word of God and studied it he saw God's light streaming from the cross of Christ. He believed it. He became a new man.