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Prayer
“preach as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.” ― Richard Baxter
If you recall, 2 weeks ago we walked through Psalm 13...
…and the title of that Sermon was - “How Long O Lord?”
The Psalm was one that we all agreed - we felt like we could have written it ourselves.
And the reason is because WE ALL live in a fallen world…EVEN David - who wrote the Psalm...
He started out Psalm 13 by saying - How long O Lord, will you forget me forever?
See, David, like most of us, had been waiting on the Lord…and he had come to the end of his rope!
See - Anytime that we come to a point in our lives when we feel like we need God to help us, or need God to answer us...
...I think we - AS CHRISTIANS - go into that with:
EXPECTATIONS
expectations that God owes us!
And i think what ends up happening - is that when we DON'T get the response we want,
or our circumstances don't turn out how we had hoped...many people end up tossing their faith in God out the window...and just say - well, I guess God DOESN'T exist...
And in thinking back to Psalm 13, which walked thru 2 weeks ago, we saw that David was at a ROUGH time in his life...
His son was out to kill him...and take over his kingdom...
And what ends up happening is something that David DIDN'T WANT to happen...
David's son is killed.
Now, for a LOT of people - that could ultimately end in them concluding that God doesn't exist...
What we learned from that Psalm, was that, for Christians - their WAITING is working FOR THEM...
How so?
See the Bible doesn’t promise us that if we trust in Christ, our life will get easy!
NO - it actually PROMISES the opposite… (*Christ cured disease - raised the dead - WE CELEBRATE finding cure for cancer…?)
The BIBLE says - Follow Christ - trust in Christ - and the result will be:
persecution (this has been PROVEN - historically)
trials
Gospel suffering
The Bible promises that if you trust in Jesus Christ, your life will BECOME a MESS...
But - the Bible also promises that IF you put your trust in Christ, YES life will become a MESS, BUT God WILL WORK - IN the mess...
And so - AGAIN - thinking back to Psalm 13, we saw in that text, a man who had been RUN OVER by life...
And so for some people (a lot - EVEN Christians) - when life RUNS us over, it can easy for us to jump to the conclusion (start to DOUBT that God exists):
There is NO God…God doesn’t exist.
He wouldn’t allow this to happen to me...
Well - let’s see what the Bible says about this thinking...
NOW - going into this - what we have to know - is that the world believes that (IT) itself defines what reality is...That MANKIND defines God...
David shows us here in Psalm 14...That - GOD DEFINES REALITY...and more specifically, God defines MAN...
And here's what we see:
SLIDE: The Fool says "God doesn't exist".
God says, "All men are fools".
The Fool says "God doesn't exist".
God says, "All men are fools".
So - first thing - The initial response here to the claim that God doesn't exist IS NOT some lengthy evidential proclamation that He DOES exist!
The Bible spends ZERO time trying to convince ANYONE that God exists!
It's simply ASSUMED
2nd: If you came in here today thinking you're awesome...God has something to tell you - You're not! (Church sign?)
God says - ALL Men are FOOLS!
Not just some....not just this group or that group…but what?
Paul references this text in Romans 3* (ALL men)
The world would read this text and would no doubt say:
What do you mean "NO ONE DOES GOOD"...I just walked in a "Breast Cancer Awareness" March
I just donated money to a worthy charity
The world says -
(I) define what is GOOD
(I) DEFINE reality...THEREFORE - when God doesn't SHOW UP and ACT how (I) say that He should..I will just declare that He doesn't exist!
now - God - in the text here, doesn't spend time telling us to just look at the sky and we'll believe in Him...NO ...
- He just starts to explain to us the REALITY of mankind...
And we ALL fall into the picture that God paints here - through David.
This really is telling us that - Everyone is guilty before God...no exceptions.
Everyone that you know is guilty before God.
You are guilty
I am guilty
the bus driver is guilty before God.
The clerk at the nearby store is guilty
Your kid's teacher is guilty
The mailman
The President
Lebron James is guilty before God.
Your parents
Your spouse
Your kids are all guilty before God... ...and this should awaken us to the reality of who we are...apart from God's grace.
This fact is not in any curriculum of any public school... ...and it's more important than everything else that they teach...put together.
**Disney - Kids asking 1000 questions (not knowing - We THINK we know but we don’t!)
See - Kids will try to tell their parents WHAT REALITY IS!
They DEFINE for themselves what “GOOD” means
well to a kid - Good is ANYTHING that brings them pleasure WHEN they WANT IT!
Kids are - IMMATURE
they don’t understand the concept of:
sharing
others
waiting / patience
THIS IS HOW WE ARE WITH GOD!
The world tries to tell the world what REALITY IS!
The world tries to DEFINE for the world - what REALITY is!
Where kids will DEFINE the world ONLY in RELATION TO THEMSELVES....
The world will DEFINE the world ONLY in RELATION to THEMSELVES...
Mankind will DEFINE “Good” only in relation to mankind...
And so - if what you do HELPS someone else - it’s a GOOD THING
If what you do doesn’t OFFEND someone else - it’s a GOOD thing...
So - according to the WORLD - That which is GOOD is defined OUTSIDE of God.
BUT what does GOD say?
THERE IS NONE who does Good, NOT EVEN ONE!
How can He say this?
Because God DEFINES what is Good...
This is saying that ANYTHING done in life - that does not come from a heart that has FAITH in Jesus Christ - is SIN...
that does not SPRING FORTH from a FOUNDATION of faith in Jesus Christ…is SIN.
SO...
this is saying that EVERY SINGLE thing that an UNBELIEVER does…IN THEIR unbelief...
…is SIN...
And so...
When an unbeliever helps the old lady cross the street....sin
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