This is the divine verdict: Light came into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light.
A battle began about 6,000 years ago in the Garden of Eden. Humans decided that they didn’t need to listen only to God for wisdom and knowledge.
We thought we would be wise, but instead became fools. Now many are “playing chicken” with God when it comes to their eternal destiny. Spoiler Alert–God won’t blink! God says the way is narrow, in fact only one way to be saved from his coming day of judgment. And that is believing in the Son of God who he gave to be the sacrifice for our sin.
But the pretending continues … and the defiance … and the contention. Humans love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. And most, it seems, even church folk, don’t want a holy God telling them any different.
The battle rages …
Here is a quote from Richard Dawkins:
- The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. [1] Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, 1st Mariner Books ed. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008).
Go ahead, Richard, live in your world. Pretend there is not a God, or fashion him to your liking or dislike as the case may be. But an hour is coming when your knee will bow along with everyone else and declare that Jesus Christ is Lord.
That is reality. Jesus Christ is Lord. Jesus Christ is coming again. Let’s live in God’s reality so we are ready.
Message Title: Discovering Our Post-Eden World: CONDEMNATION!
Message Text: John 3:16-21 & Selected
