[Faith-talk] FW: [masterslist] A Foolish Plan

Wed Mar 7 17:22:25 UTC 2012

Original Message: 
From: "Dean Masters" <dwmasters15 at gmail.com>
To: "masters list" <masterslist at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [masterslist] A Foolish Plan
Date: 
Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:18:50 -0500

A Foolish Plan
By Skip Heitzig

I was reading the words of one prominent pastor who said, "I don't think 
anything has been done in the name of Christ, or under the banner of 
Christianity,
that has proved more detrimental to the human condition than the crude
and 
uncouth idea that mankind is lost and in need of a savior." I was amazed.

That
came from a clergyman?

What does the Bible teach about what that clergyman said? The Bible says 
very plainly that if we say we have no sin, we are a liar and the truth is

not
in us (1 John 1:8). It says, "The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23).
In 
Genesis 2, God told Adam and Eve that "in the day that you eat of it (the

forbidden
fruit) you shall surely die." And Romans 5:12 says that "through one man
sin 
entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all
men,
because all sinned."

You see, mankind has a virus more deadly than the HIV virus; it's the SIN

virus. We all have it. It's a part of our nature, but it's also our
choice. 
We
don't realize how badly infected we are, and that we need the cross.

In 1 Corinthians 1:23 Paul wrote, "But we preach Christ crucified," and
he 
said the message of the cross is a "stumbling block" and "foolishness" to

most
people. And we could add that it's "uncouth" and "crude" to some.

When I was a young believer I used to witness to a woman that I worked
with. 
She said, "I don't get it! The whole idea of Jesus dying on the cross for

me,
when I wasn't even born yet, is ridiculous!"

The world doesn't understand God's plan. They think it's foolishness. But
I 
like how the New Living Translation renders 1 Corinthians 1:25: "This 
foolish
plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans." Romans 6:23
concludes, 
"But the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." That is
what
God offers us, through the sacrifice of His Son on the cross.

So, far from being "crude and uncouth," the message of the cross is
sublime. 
It is the essence of God's gracious love to humankind. And the idea that
we
need a Savior isn't "detrimental to the human condition," it's the truth.

The Savior is the only hope for the human condition!

"Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!" (2 Corinthians 9:15).

For more from Skip Heitzig, visit
ConnectionRadio.org,
and listen to today's broadcast of The Connection with
Skip Heitzig
at OnePlace.com.

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