Radically dependent upon God!

Posted: March 14, 2011 in disciples life, teaching, wilderness
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The modern day gospel says, “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for you life. Therefore, follow these steps, and you can be saved.” Meanwhile, the biblical gospel says, “You are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, and in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that you need life, much less to cause yourself to come to life. Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do.

The former sells books and draws crowds. The later saves souls. Which is more important?

The gospel of the bible brings forth the revelation of the depth to which we need God. In it God shows us that there is absolutely nothing we can do to come to Him. We can not manufacture salvation, no matter how hard or how many times we attempt to imitate it, we can not reproduce it. We can not create a program that will produce it. We can not even begin to initiate it. We are totally and radically dependent upon God to open our eyes, set us free, overcome our evil, and appease His wrath. He has to come to us.

In this, Praise God, we begin to see the beauty of the Gospel message of the Kingdom of God.

Only the Creator Himself could devise such a plan of redemption for mankind – In fact only the Creator of heaven & earth, through and of Himself can offer such a perfect and flawless redemptive and eternal salvation to His creation.

For indeed we serve an Awesome God

Comments
  1. Barbara G's avatar Barbara G says:

    YES! We do indeed serve an AWESOME God!

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