Does your Gospel outreach declare these Two Indispensable Truths?

© 2015 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

Two indispensable truths must be understood to comprehend the amazing nature of salvation. We must be awed by God’s intense holiness, and we must realize how far humanity fell when Adam and Eve disobeyed Him. Failure to grasp the spiritual enmity caused by these two truths, causes the preaching of a false and misleading Gospel.

God is holy and absolutely pure. His bright and burning glory would consume wicked man unless God shielded him from it. Moses discovered this in his following conversation with God.

“And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. … And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live” (Exodus 33:18 & 20).

To protect Moses, God shielded him in a crevice of the rock while He passed by and allowed Moses to see just a small sample of His glory (Exodus 33:21-23).

Unsaved man is wicked and dead. He has no capacity to accomplish anything good spiritually. God declares that a spiritually dead person can do nothing to please Him.

“For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God” (Romans 8:6 8).

These two indispensable truths make salvation impossible apart from absolutely sovereign action by God.

However, fallen man’s pride makes him want at least a little credit for salvation. We say things like, “I’m saved because I gave my life to Christ.” No! A dead man has no spiritual life to give! God must first breathe life into us or we’ll never comprehend our need for His mercy.

Christ Jesus, God the Son, gave His pure life blood as the sacrificial redemption price for His people. He bore the entire punishment for their sins. He rose from the grave to prove His powerful victory!

If you think all you need is a little boost from God to augment your own partial righteousness, you’re trusting a false gospel. Christ said,

“I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance” (Matthew 9:13, Mark 2:17, Luke 5:32).

Has God’s Holy Spirit burdened you with your great fallen wickedness? Then ask Him to save you now!

 

 

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