Many pretend and live in worlds fashioned from their own perceived reality of right and wrong, good and evil, life and death. Create our own story so to speak. This approach has its roots in the original disobedience and rebellion of Adam and Eve as they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
From then on humans have decided that they are well capable of defining life and pursuing wisdom apart from God.
And God gives us this choice.
In this pretend world, a person can believe that he is master of his fate, or she can profess to be captain of her soul, but there is a day of reckoning to come.
The account of this day of reckoning comes from the writing of holy prophets that God set aside to communicate to his human creation. The Bible.
And people can and do deny that the Bible is God’s word, or deny its authority or validity. God allows this also.
But none of the protests, none of the pretense, none of the defiance will matter when the Lord Jesus comes in judgment fury.
- (John 3:16 ESV) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
This verse gives the reality of life. The only reality that will stand the test of time and eternity. Believe in the Son of God and receive eternal life. Do nothing, don’t believe and perish.
Since Adam and Eve our world has been under the judgment, the condemnation of God. God has given us a solution, a resolution, to our problem. Jesus, the Son of God, had to come to this earth to die as our substitute.
So, again, choose God’s version of reality and trust in the Son of God, or live with the consequences of remaining the enemy of God living under his wrath.
Message Title: Discovering Our Post-Eden World: Condemned!
Message Text: Genesis 3:9, John 3:16-21
