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Salem - January 25, 2009AM
Human Road Blocks
Acts 9 :1-9.
A strange and baffling mystery
- God comes to people
- People do not welcome Him
- the heart is closed to God
- avenues to the heart are shut off
- divine prompting is ignored
- God is not welcome to many hearts
- an incomprehensible fact
- people are not approachable
- God wants to come to them
- people just say “no” to God
Blood of Jesus opens way to God
- road is paved with love
- it is protected by grace
- is illuminated by truth
Stubborn wills blocks God’s approach
Road Signs Tell The Story
The spiritual life is marked with:
“Road Closed” - path over which God might walk is not in use
- infested with obnoxious wild growth
- eroded with deep/ugly pot holes
- tells story of frustration and loss
“Detour” - spiritual traffic must go around another way
- God is directed away from life
- barrier posted at entrance
“Private Property” only for self use
- no sharing life’s values
- no welcome to spiritual interests
“Posted: Keep Out” no admittance
- spiritual influences denied
- cannot search my life
- nothing inside akin to God
- morality is abandoned - left out
Such signs are beyond understanding
- why is God left out of life?
- poisoned spiritual nature by sin
- let sin in and keep God out
God does not give up
- pursues each one in deep love
- seeks to win by His grace
- to redeem by Jesus’ blood
The picture is very clear
- God wants to bring grace
- to awaken a voluntary response
- but finds only stubborn resistance
“Is it hard for you to kick against the pricks (goads)?”
- avoids spiritual wooing of God
- bolts in the opposite direction
- hardens heart with each prodding
- beats conscience into submission
State of spiritual unconsciousness
- is drugged into senselessness
- awareness of God is lost totally
- spiritual sensibilities are dead
God does not give up
- has ordained forces that prod
- seeking to awaken sinful people
- eternal persistent truth never dies
- knows God is present & powerful
- rejects the very idea repeatedly
Pilate asked Jesus “what is truth?”
- he was living a false life
- came face to face with Jesus
- stood mystified and confused
- lived in conflict with truth
- Jesus said: “I am the truth”
The Truth is Indestructible
- truth lives forever
- crucify it and it lives again
- bury it and it rises again
- deny it and have the ultimate lie
- ignore it and it will mock you
- trampled into dust it springs up
- truth always accuses the false
Word of God is the Truth
- living, powerful and indestructible
- cuts through every sham
- divides the true and the false
- convicts people with presence/power
Truth shines in Christian experience
- powerful testimony of living truth
- sustained and empowered by truth
- no answer to a Christian life
- words fail to demolish testimony
- from threats to imprisonment
- gave up arguments took up stones
- still truth reigned supreme
Persecution, hardships, and suffering do not dim the light but make it glow more
People have a “spiritual” nature
- call it conscience if you will
- it is an inherent element of life
- people are packaged this way
- cannot forget is a spiritual being
- surrounded by spiritual forces
- still capable of spiritual responses
these are unrelenting goads
- forever prodding every person
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