Unbelief and Its Consequences Imagine a little box and imagine that in that little box we live...thats our little world. And two things qualify life in that box, one is time and one is space. We live in a space/time world. We cannot imagine existence apart from time and space. Its always a certain hour and were a certain place. And in our little space/time box we have a sort of a gnawing feeling in our hearts that theres something outside our box but nobody has ever been there. And so we try to imagine how it might be and we stand on the edge of our little box and imagine that we can see out. And so man decides...well, Ill invent some things about whats out there. And so he invents some religions and religions are simply mans way of trying to escape his little box and find whos really out there. And some people have said its the great hunter in the happy hunting ground. And some people have said its Allah. And some people have said its Buddha. And some people have said its some ethereal philosophical floating mystical logos, that was the old Greek thought. And some have said its a myriad of gods and goddesses and there have been myriads of suggestions about who is out there. But you see, man is confined in his little box in time and space, trying to figure out whats outside where theres no time and no space and no knowledge. How is man going to know whats out there? Can man escape his time and space confinement? Can you go in to a phone booth and take off your clothes? Yes. Can you come out Superman? No. You cant do it. You cant lift yourself, transport yourself into another world. Listen, if man is ever to know whats outside his time/space sphere, hell never discover it on his own. Whoever is out there has to come in to his little world. Do you know that every religion in the world offers itself as mans explanation of whats outside but Christianity says we have a message that God who is on the outside brought to the inside. And when God entered in to human life, God came in to a time‑space world, He entered our dimension of living as a man. He became what we are in order that He might bring Himself to us because we could never have gotten outside. First He wrote us a letter telling He was coming and the letter is the Bible and then...the Old Testament...and then He came and the New Testament tells us the story of His coming. And so the good news is that God came into the world. The good news is that Jesus was God in human flesh and He came here not only to tell us what God was like but He came here to die as a sacrifice for our sins so that we some day could go out of this little box and enter in to the eternal presence of God. John MacArthur Romans 1:18-20 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth [a]in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident [b]within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 12:49:07 +0000
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