Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Don't Add On

This is a very insiteful poem about adding on to the gospel. Let me know what you think.

Friday, July 18, 2008

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Everlasting Gospel for All Nations


Andrea boldly shared the gospel with these gypsy children near our home. They couldn't read so God gave her the grace to take the time to share the law and the everlasting gospel with them.

Friday, July 4, 2008

Q and A

I received this letter:
About that site, their understanding of evolution is limited, to say the least. In fact it's wrong too say anything occurred by chance and fallen miraculously into their present day forms. Therefore, the coca cola and oranges tests are irrelevent. The whole thing uses as an axiom that if something is made, "there must be a maker." There can be no room for discussion afterwards. But let me ask you a few questions: Did God create Satan? Is God all-knowing? Is God therefore at fault for all the evil in the world which he knew Satan would cause? Do you believe you happened upon Christianity because of its inherent authenticity, or because it is the prevailing religion where you grew up? You, the same person growing up in Iran, would you have found Islam, and therefore been sentenced to hell for not having found Jesus? Isn't it really by chance, then, whether we go to heaven or hell? Would an all-knowing all-perfect God allow that?"

Here is the response (may the Lord use it for His glory):
(Name), I’m glad you took the time to read the article I sent you. Your right it is an axiom “that if something is made, “there must be a maker.”.” It’s just plain common sense. I’ll take on your questions one by one.
Q:“Did God create Satan?”
A: Yes, and everything else for that matter.

Q: “is God all knowing?”
A: It appears to be implied so in the Bible.

Q: “Is God therefore at fault for all the evil in the world which he knew Satan would cause?
A: No way, not at fault. Can you imagine standing before a judge, you’re guilty of serious crimes and blaming God and Satan. Sure God created all yet we are personally responsible for our actions. The very fact that there is good and evil is only because God has made it so. You don’t have absolute good and evil apart from God. Good and evil are part of God’s redemptive plan from “before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1 etc.). God shows the glory of His grace in redeeming and saving monsters of wickedness like ourselves.

Q: “Do you believe you happened upon Christianity because of (A)its inherent authenticity, or (B)because it is the prevailing religion where you grew up?”
A: I’d like to answer C. For sure I “happened upon Christianity...because it is the prevailing religion where (I) grew up”. The same could be asked of evolution and atheism, yet that’s irrelevant as to wether or not it’s true. Knowing about Jesus and the Bible never made me a Christian. Nor that it is more socially acceptable than in say, Iran. I became a Christian because God did a supernatural work in me giving me a new heart with new desires, giving me repentance and faith in His Son, and therefore forgiveness of sins. I was “born again”. So radical is God’s working that the sin I once loved I now hate. God revealed Himself to me (John 15:8a Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you..). (see also John 14:21)

Q: “You, the same person growing up in Iran, would you have found Islam, and therefore been sentenced to hell for not having found Jesus?”
A: All people have creation and conscience as witness against them. (See Romans 1-2) Basically creation reveals to people that there is a “Creator”. Conscience reveals to them His law. Wether you’ve ever “found Jesus” as you say, isn’t the point. The point is that we all know there is a God, and we know good and evil, yet we often love and choose evil. Conscience is the law of God written on everyone’s hearts (Romans 2:15). If I lie, steal, murder, rape, indulge in cannibalism, or even don’t do the good I know I should, I do it with knowledge that it is wrong. Conscience means “with knowledge”. I break the law of God knowing I am doing wrong, and therefore can and will be held accountable. The penalty for such transgression is “hell” or the “lake of fire” if you will. So the man in Iran would be “sentenced to hell” for breaking God’s law. Everyone has a conscience. Last year I was on four continents of this earth and can tell you from experience it is so. I’m not talking about cultural differences, but a deeper absolute law of God written on their hearts.

Q: “Isn't it really by chance, then, whether we go to heaven or hell?”
A: No.

Q: “Would an all-knowing all-perfect God allow that?"
A: No.

beutiful

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Thursday, July 3, 2008