These People Are Hungry
There have been several occasions in which I’ve heard people enthusiastically speak about taking the gospel to a certain people group because “they are hungry” for it. My question is if they have never heard the gospel how is it that they can be hungry? If a man in a jungle has never eaten an Oreo cookie how can he say that he is hungry for an Oreo cookie?
Here’s what we do know. Human beings are inherently religious regardless of age, race or which century they were born in. Human history bears witness to this truth. We are simply wired to be religious, but the Bible provides the only true and complete diagnosis of the human condition. We are sinful and we hate God. The natural disposition of the unregenerate heart is that we are hostile in mind towards a Holy God. That is a fact.
While on flight to John MacArthur’s Shepherd’s Conference. I played a message from my iPod entitled The Radical Depravity of Man by Conrad Ebwe.
9What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, 10as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one; 11no one understands; no one seeks for God. 12All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one." Romans 3:9-12
In explaining this verse he said, “We have to recognize that whether we are dealing with 21st century individuals or dealing with those at the beginning of Bible times, whether we are dealing with the educated or the uneducated, whether we are dealing with the religious or the non-religious, all are in the same boat. Do you realize that?”
and
“You know, many times we have magazines and…publications about how the Africans are open to the Gospel. [It is said] ‘Let’s go across the Atlantic and share the Gospel. They are coming in droves into the Kingdom!’ Well, I’ll tell you. I’ve come from there. They are as rebellious and sinful and in as much mutiny against the living God as the people who are living behind you.”
Here’s what we do know. Human beings are inherently religious regardless of age, race or which century they were born in. Human history bears witness to this truth. We are simply wired to be religious, but the Bible provides the only true and complete diagnosis of the human condition. We are sinful and we hate God. The natural disposition of the unregenerate heart is that we are hostile in mind towards a Holy God. That is a fact.
While on flight to John MacArthur’s Shepherd’s Conference. I played a message from my iPod entitled The Radical Depravity of Man by Conrad Ebwe.
9What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, 10as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one; 11no one understands; no one seeks for God. 12All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one." Romans 3:9-12
In explaining this verse he said, “We have to recognize that whether we are dealing with 21st century individuals or dealing with those at the beginning of Bible times, whether we are dealing with the educated or the uneducated, whether we are dealing with the religious or the non-religious, all are in the same boat. Do you realize that?”
and
“You know, many times we have magazines and…publications about how the Africans are open to the Gospel. [It is said] ‘Let’s go across the Atlantic and share the Gospel. They are coming in droves into the Kingdom!’ Well, I’ll tell you. I’ve come from there. They are as rebellious and sinful and in as much mutiny against the living God as the people who are living behind you.”
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