I don’t know why God hasn’t given us five saviors or fifteen religious ways to satisfy Him? I don’t know the answer to that question. But let’s just take a hypothetical situation. Suppose there is a God. Let’s start with that supposition. And suppose that God is altogether absolutely Holy. And suppose that God, not out of any necessity for Himself, but out of sheer love and graciousness creates a world and He inhabits this world with a vast array of animals and plants. And then when He is finished, His crowning act of creation is a creature that He shapes in His own image. And He breathes into this creature His own breath and gives this creature preeminence over all creation, dominion over all, and gives him the task or mirroring and reflecting God’s own Holy character. And God gratuitously heaps all kinds of benefits on this creature but gives one restriction to this creature and says “You are not allowed to touch or to eat of this particular fruit.” And as soon as God turns His back, suppose this creature, totally ungrateful, which owes his creator everything, turns around and grasps for equality with his creator and openly willfully defies the law of God. And God had told him, “You do this, you die.” And suppose right then that God would erase mankind from the earth. He would have been perfectly just to do it. Wouldn’t He? Yes. But supposed God was so patient, so kind, that he said I will cover this creature’s nakedness and I will provide a way of salvation for him and I will promise to deliver this ungrateful sinner from his desperate condition. I am going to send to this people that reject everything I do for them, I am going to send my only begotten Son. And I am going to take the sins of My people and transfer them to the back of my own Son who is perfectly righteous and perfectly innocent. And they kill the Son. And God said that’s ok, you killed Him. But if you will just put your trust in Him and honor Him, I will forgive you of every sin that you have ever committed again Me and again Him and I will give you eternal life where there will be no more death, no more tears, no more wickedness, no more pain, no more suffering, and you will live forever in unending bliss. But My only requirement is that you honor the One you has died in your place. Buddha didn’t die for you, Moses didn’t die for you, Mohammed didn’t die for you. And I require you that you honor and embrace my only Son. Would you dare to stand before God on the Day of Judgment and say, “God, You have not done enough.” Would you look into the face of God and say “One way of salvation is not enough?” How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? Beloved, I don’t think that people who believe in Christ are any better than people who believe in something else. We are not talking about the superiority of the people. But I’m sure it rankles God Almighty to hear any human being even mention Buddha in the same breath as Jesus Christ. Because Christ alone is sinless. Buddha was a sinner and Buddha couldn’t save himself let alone anyone else. Mohammed was a sinner and Mohammed never saved anybody. Only Christ is sinless. Only Christ has offered an atonement. Only Christ has provided redemption for us. Only Christ.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:07:12 +0000
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