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April already?

I have so neglected my blog the last few weeks, so I will try to lend something other than a video this week.


The idea of a truly sovereign God is void and dead in most churches today, and misused or misguided in many others. As a Baptist, I must say that for a people who started out with as clear of a picture of God's sovereignty and grace as any, we have now for a large part abandoned the idea nearly entirely. We seem to know that God can and does heal, that He does save sinners (though all of us do not have a clarity on how or how much is His own doing), that He does work in the world, etc. But so few of us seem to acknowledge His supreme and undoubted sovereign divinity. Indeed, I have witnessed that many of us "dyed-in-the-wool" Evangelicals behave as stubborn mules resisting the correction of scripture in lieu of our own traditions. Others of us allow a relationship with God "on our own terms" or a one-way relationship with Christ (eg. I read my Bible verses, I pray, I am on a committee, I work at the church). Jesus states in John 7:38-39 that one must believe in Him as the scripture states, not as one wishes to. I will dare say if God is not changing us with great frequency through His Word and/or the enemy is leaving us alone we need to examine ourselves in the light of scripture and see what is going wrong.

John 6:63-71
"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe and who would betray Him. And He said, "Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father." From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. Then Jesus said to the twelve, "Do you also want to go away?" But Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is the devil?" He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, for it was he who would betray Him, being one of the twelve.

There are a thousand teachings in just this portion of scripture. But this is what I'll say for now. Sometimes the church seems to be like Thomas Jefferson omitting the verses of the Bible that they don't agree with (only in our hearts). We are a selfish people wanting to appease ourselves and our fellow man. We are created to glorify God!! We have been reborn into love and unity among our bretheren. Where are the "compassionate,patient, kind, humble, and gentle" (Col. 3:12) people of God among us? Where are the bold, passionate, sin hating, faithful soldiers of Christ? We are there, but a remnant among those who call out "Lord, Lord". God almighty will never be your backseat driver. Salvation is on His terms according to His will, and orchestrated, authored, applied, granted, completed, and exacted according to His own pleasure and grace. Let us remember what we truly are...what we were before His hand stirred our souls so dead in sin. We were totally depraved sin loving God haters. Dare we doubt His Lordship? Have we like His peoples past forgotten the wonders of His work in our lives or the miracle of His hand moving in our path to show us His love? Let it never be.


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