More and more I am hearing preachers on radio addressing their audience with statements such as: “God is trying to do this or that” or “Won’t you let God do this or that.” I saw a tract in a bookstore some time ago entitled, “God’s Simple Plan of Salvation.” On the back side of that little tract were the words, “Please let God save you this very moment!” I really don’t understand how anyone who has given any serious time and attention to the word of God could make such a statement! Consider the implications of such a statement. Is God honored and glorified by such statements? Do such statements exalt and magnify God in the mind of the hearers or readers? But even more, do such statements have any Biblical support, either by precept or example? The answer is NO, absolutely not! The whole word of God is open rebuke to those who make such statements. To me such statements are belittling and dishonoring to God. Does the puny, sinful creature give his Almighty Cr...
Galatians 4:1-5 “Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.” The third chapter of this book ends with the declaration that, being Christ’s, we are Abraham’s seed and therefor heirs of God’s promise. Lest we think too highly of ourselves, Paul points out a fact of life for heirs under Jewish law. As long as the heir is a child his lot is no different from that of a servant. It does not matter that he will someday possess all that his father has: he is no different than a servant in his father’s house until he reaches maturity. T...