Our Accountability to God
When we ask the question of those who never heard, it demonstrates our accountability to God in that He is also calling us to respond to Him.
When we ask the question of those who never heard, it demonstrates our accountability to God in that He is also calling us to respond to Him.
Despite the witness of nature and the witness of the conscience, without God’s intervention in our hearts, we turn away from Him.
God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing, but we often choose to live as paupers—we ignore the blessing of the Father.
Is God fair? Does He even care? These two questions are the heart of our objection to Christianity regarding those who have never heard the gospel.
Living by grace through faith is not natural to us. Even after we have been saved, it is easy for us to slip back into thinking of works righteousness.
We need to think well and realize that the Christian faith is founded on fact. The object of our faith is key. Although the amount of our faith may change, but the object—the person and work of Christ—never will. As a result, Christianity is not a crutch—it’s the cure.
Isn’t Christianity just a psychological crutch? We frequently hear this objection to Christianity in one form or another: it’s an invention that helps emotionally weak people; it enables the purposeless to create meaning for themselves; it is merely the result of preconditioning. When someone comes to us with this objection, that is an opportunity to point them to Christ. We need to think well and understand the ins and outs of this objection in order to address it.
Teacher. Moral example. Good person. These are common modern descriptions of Jesus, but we need to ask, what did Jesus say about Himself? Although we may attempt to soften Jesus’ words or change His identity to be that of a mere teacher, if we take the New Testament seriously, we see that Jesus claimed to be God.
How do we memorialize the works of God? Joshua 4 teaches us to set up ebenezers—physical reminders that help us recalibrate our lives and honor God.
Rahab—often known as “Rahab the harlot”—did not know much about the Lord God. But she took what little she knew and responded in faith to God.
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