Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 6:18:56 PM
“It is time we recognized the boundless narcissism and self-deceit of the saved.” –Sam Harris
What a good statement to illustrate the complete blindness of the natural man to the things of God for ‘the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned’ [1 Corinthians 2:14].
Mr. Harris fails to mention that lost men, as opposed to saved men, presume that the testimony of Jesus Christ is false. They sit in judgment over His revelation and are unconvinced of its truthfulness. He does not meet their expectation of God. His Gospel is not good news to them. His message of freedom from the slavery of sin is of no concern. They feel no such bondage. They freely do as they will. Life is good so they think. Such is the deceitfulness of sin.
What does a dead man know of life? Even so, what can the spiritually dead know of being born of the Spirit. The veil of blindness is removed in Jesus Christ. The same God who commanded light to shine out of darkness has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. God clothed Himself in flesh and became of no reputation to redeem all the covenant people with His own blood.
The justice and mercy of God are resolved in Christ. Yes, we boast, but our boasting is not in ourselves. Our confidence rests in Him who is risen from the dead and ever lives to make intercession for us. No longer is sin our master for He made us to hate our sin and released us from its captivity.
Will we exchange the eternal wisdom of God revealed in the Gospel for the foolishness of man’s wisdom that denies the design of the world in which he lives? God forbid!