“The Gospel of God”
How wonderful it is to know that the gospel of Jesus Christ was not contrived in the thoughts of mere mortal man. If it were so, then we would be hopelessly lost and the remedy for our evil thoughts would only become conjectures that would lead to greater corruption. This is the result of all who reject Biblical authority today, for the thoughts of man are continually changing. Apart from the unchangeable truth of God’s living word, man’s wisdom concerning God is built upon the principles of his own imagination. His conscience is continually being conditioned by what he sees and hears daily and he becomes his own god and does what seems right in his own eyes. He takes the moral precepts that are inscribed upon his mind as an image bearer of God and lowers them to justify his own actions and to satisfy his own immoral thoughts. Though eternity is woven in the fabric of his nature and he sees all of the hidden attributes of God in all of creation he suppresses that truth. He allows the fallen passion, that has been perverted by sin, to become the driving force of his own will and the temple of His body becomes the playground of wickedness and the dwelling of demons.
The word of God tells us concerning those who reject Christ, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 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. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever.” They are haters of God, inventors of evil, filled with all darkness; “like clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.”
But thanks be to God the holy scriptures tell us that man does not have the preeminence. For the Apostle Paul being an eyewitness of Jesus reigning at the right hand of God tells us, “For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.” You see, Paul would have been the least likely of any of us to have ever believed that Jesus was the Son of God Who was sent into this world to pay for the sins of humanity. He was a religious zealot, the greatest mind of his day, and an opponent of Christianity. He opposed such things with hatred in his heart, yet we see that God changed his heart by a supernatural work of regeneration. That is, God the Father awakened Paul by the Holy Spirit to see the reality of his own sinful nature and then drew him to Jesus with sweet cords of love. Even though he was a very religious man his heart was darkened by sin and hate. It was God Who drove him to his knees to see Jesus hanging on the cross dying for his very own sins. Paul was arrested by God’s love two thousand years ago and surrendered his life to Christ. Today could be the day your life is changed forever, may God make it so.