Recognizing God's Love Amidst Human Contempt

now the biblical teaching is that that is the final effect of sin upon men that it makes him regard with contempt God's most amazing action God's perfect provision God's final manifestation of his love and of his wisdom and of his power that is typical and characteristic of men in sin [00:08:52]

there are many ways of expressing contempt one way of expressing contempt of a personnal of anything is the open way the way that was adopted here by these children of Israel they put it into words and they put it into their faces in their whole attitude and expression it was their blatant and open their Manor [00:10:23]

sometimes the most eloquent way of expressing contempt is just as there nothing you don't to let yourself girls it well and produce your expletives and denounce tricked and spit about it you just turn away from it will supreme contempt you haven't said a word just bitter biting silence and sarcasm [00:12:58]

there are large numbers of people in the world tonight who regard Christianity with unutterable disdain they regard it as something which is an insult to immense intelligence Christianity they say are you still interested in that my word how outmoded you are surely you want to Rael as you're living in 1957 not in 1857 or previous centuries [00:11:33]

here is a king who makes a great feast he'd sent out his invitations and the people had accepted the invitations well then the time came when the feast was actually to be held so the king sent out his servant to let the people know whom he'd invite him and who had accepted the invitation but that all things were now ready would they come at once to the feast [00:15:20]

Cain was probably the first to do it no doubt you see he'd had the same instruction as his brother Abel as to the kind of offering that was to be given to God but he ignored it and he did what he thought she thereby showing his contempt for God's Way all these children of Israel here they are doing it here you see this manner [00:18:14]

the manner was a miracle the manner was bread sent from heaven manna didn't grow naturally manner was not some kind of indigenous product in that land God sent the manner six days of the week from him by a miracle a miracle repeated six days of every week there it was God acting in his own mightiness in his unusual way [00:24:10]

the natural man that's to say man as he is left to himself without God doing anything to him and natural men with all his cleverness and all his ability and all his worldly wisdom and all his cuteness and all his understand natural men receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God why for they are foolishness unto him foolishness [00:27:38]

if ever a person is met with contempt in this world it was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ listen to the evidence isn't it almost incredible that men and women should have treated him as they did and should have said about him the things they said that they did at the very beginning they said can any good come out of Nazareth [00:29:10]

they crucified him and there he is nailed to a tree suffering agony not only physical but suffering at this sin this vileness this blindness this fungus and as he's hanging there helpless and suffering such agony they walk past you remember wagging their heads and mocking and jeering him and saying if thou be the Son of God come down save thyself [00:34:06]

we preach Christ crucified to the Jews a stumbling-block and to the Greeks foolishness the cross of Christ the death of Christ the Jews hated it was a stumbling block to they were infuriated by it our Messiah this dying in weakness upon a cross the Messiah we've looked forward to for centuries coming as a carpenter [00:40:03]

it's God's Way of saving men if that blood had not been shed not one of us would be forgiven we'd all be consigned to perdition and to hell the blood of the Son of God the most amazing manifestation of God love and mercy and compassion that he spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all to the death of the cross [00:43:20]