Living in Truth: Escaping Deception and Wrath
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Our conduct is important because it affects our relationship to God, not simply our relationship as it were to ourselves, not simply our relationship to other people. That comes in, that is involved, but the whole emphasis of the Bible is that our conduct and behavior is important because it affects our relationship to the Eternal and the Everlasting God himself. [00:03:30]
There are only two possibilities with regard to that relationship to God, and he's already been mentioning here are the only two possible positions. We are all of us either in the Kingdom of Christ and of God, we either have this inheritance and a place and a portion in the Kingdom of Christ and of God, or else we are outside that Kingdom. [00:04:01]
The world is as it is at this present moment, and the world goes on living as it is living at this present moment simply because it doesn't realize those three fundamental truths. We are meeting together on Remembrance Sunday, that makes us think of the fact that we've already had two world wars in this present Century. [00:06:04]
The Apostle says that the first answer is this: because it is being deceived by vain words. Let no man deceive you with vain words. Now then, this is the thing which we need to understand, and it seems to me at this present hour, man is as he is in sin, and the world is as it is and undergoes all these agonies for one reason only, and that is because it is being deceived. [00:09:13]
Modern man glories above everything else in what he calls his knowledge, his learning, his understanding. He believes that he rarely has understood life and that he has a true view of life. And in that connection, there is nothing perhaps on which the modern man, the typical modern man, so prides himself and congratulates himself as on the way in which he has emancipated himself from religion. [00:11:41]
The result of this is that he derides and dismisses the old standards, especially the old moral standards, and laughs at them and ridicules them. Things which were regarded by everybody a hundred years ago and even more recently than that as sin beyond any question, modern man not only does them, but he defends them. [00:13:16]
There is this new tendency in life to explain what used to be called sin in terms of variations of the normal or in terms of disease. Now the whole idea today is that there is no such thing really as sin and that we mustn't say that people who do certain things are sinners and are sinful. [00:16:29]
The whole notion of sin has disappeared entirely, or as I say, sometimes they put it not so much in variations in terms of variations in the normal as in terms of disease. And you must have noticed this creeping even into the arguments in the law courts now. A man commits a crime, yes, but the defense is this: he really couldn't help it. [00:18:40]
The world is as it is today because it's sin, and because God is punishing its sin. You see, for a hundred years and more now, man has been boasting about his cleverness. It all started back there about 1860, 1859 if you like, Charles Darwin and his Origin of Species, the scientific view, man no longer a special creation of God but evolving up out of the animal. [00:41:42]
The world doesn't know about the wrath of God, and as long as it doesn't, things will continue from bad to worse. How idle it is to try and be optimistic and to say that what we want is a spirit of love and of brotherhood and of friendship. Go back and think of the sacrifices of the Great War. [00:44:51]
The second coming of Christ, the end of the world, the Judgment of the whole universe. Jesus Christ, the son of God, the neglected, the derided savior will come back into this world. He'll be riding on the clouds of heaven, and he will come back, I say, to judge the whole world in righteousness. [00:45:14]
Repent and believe the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will not only be forgiven, you will be given an inheritance in his glorious and everlasting kingdom. Oh, may God open all our eyes to the truth, and may we dedicate ourselves this morning to incessant prayer on behalf of the world that is being deceived by vain words. [00:49:48]
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There are only two possibilities with regard to that relationship to God, and he's already been mentioning here are the only two possible positions. We are all of us either in the Kingdom of Christ and of God, we either have this inheritance and a place and a portion in the Kingdom of Christ and of God, or else we are outside that Kingdom. [00:04:01]
The world is as it is at this present moment, and the world goes on living as it is living at this present moment simply because it doesn't realize those three fundamental truths. We are meeting together on Remembrance Sunday, that makes us think of the fact that we've already had two world wars in this present Century. [00:06:04]
The Apostle says that the first answer is this: because it is being deceived by vain words. Let no man deceive you with vain words. Now then, this is the thing which we need to understand, and it seems to me at this present hour, man is as he is in sin, and the world is as it is and undergoes all these agonies for one reason only, and that is because it is being deceived. [00:09:13]
Modern man glories above everything else in what he calls his knowledge, his learning, his understanding. He believes that he rarely has understood life and that he has a true view of life. And in that connection, there is nothing perhaps on which the modern man, the typical modern man, so prides himself and congratulates himself as on the way in which he has emancipated himself from religion. [00:11:41]
The result of this is that he derides and dismisses the old standards, especially the old moral standards, and laughs at them and ridicules them. Things which were regarded by everybody a hundred years ago and even more recently than that as sin beyond any question, modern man not only does them, but he defends them. [00:13:16]
There is this new tendency in life to explain what used to be called sin in terms of variations of the normal or in terms of disease. Now the whole idea today is that there is no such thing really as sin and that we mustn't say that people who do certain things are sinners and are sinful. [00:16:29]
The whole notion of sin has disappeared entirely, or as I say, sometimes they put it not so much in variations in terms of variations in the normal as in terms of disease. And you must have noticed this creeping even into the arguments in the law courts now. A man commits a crime, yes, but the defense is this: he really couldn't help it. [00:18:40]
The world is as it is today because it's sin, and because God is punishing its sin. You see, for a hundred years and more now, man has been boasting about his cleverness. It all started back there about 1860, 1859 if you like, Charles Darwin and his Origin of Species, the scientific view, man no longer a special creation of God but evolving up out of the animal. [00:41:42]
The world doesn't know about the wrath of God, and as long as it doesn't, things will continue from bad to worse. How idle it is to try and be optimistic and to say that what we want is a spirit of love and of brotherhood and of friendship. Go back and think of the sacrifices of the Great War. [00:44:51]
The second coming of Christ, the end of the world, the Judgment of the whole universe. Jesus Christ, the son of God, the neglected, the derided savior will come back into this world. He'll be riding on the clouds of heaven, and he will come back, I say, to judge the whole world in righteousness. [00:45:14]
Repent and believe the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will not only be forgiven, you will be given an inheritance in his glorious and everlasting kingdom. Oh, may God open all our eyes to the truth, and may we dedicate ourselves this morning to incessant prayer on behalf of the world that is being deceived by vain words. [00:49:48]
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