Problem three: Man is hostile; Solution.

Problem three: Man is hostile to the gospel of Jesus Christ because it is exclusive.

John 14:6 states

"Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

Man hates one way answers. Man doesn't like to be told the way that he has been going is wrong.

Too many times I've heard Christians water down the word of God to non-believers, preaching things like the "health wealth and prosperity gospel" or the "come as you are gospel" at the expense of other important aspects of the REAL gospel, like the CROSS.

YES! Jesus died on the cross for the sinners, for the wicked, for the lost. God heals! God Saves! God provides and protects! BUT GOD DOESN'T JUST DO THOSE THINGS! God is just. God is jealous. God is loving. God wants whats best for you even if it means completely changing your life PAINFULLY from bad to good.

Man is hostile towards the gospel because we've been decapitated for too long and we forgot what its like to see, hear, taste, and smell. We'd rather crawl around on the floor feeling about, completely oblivious to our surroundings, and oblivious to how much happier we could be if we just screwed our head back on.

AMONG ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS, LOST-NESS, DECAPITATION, HOSTILITY, OUR SOLUTION IS THIS!!!

The REALIZATION that we are lost, the REPENTANCE of our sins, and the CONTINUAL walk of righteousness we have with our loving savior Jesus Christ.

This is absolutely essential. Once we realize that we are lost, and that the empty promises of a sinful world hold nothing of eternal value, we can seek the truth that the darkness has been seeking all along in vain. We can cling to the eternal truth that Jesus Christ loves us very deeply and that He died a brutal, bloody, horrible death for all of us, that we may see Him in heaven, and be with Him forever.

The alternative to this is dismal. It is eternal separation from our loving Creator. Ravi Zacharias tells a story of a man by the name of Charlie Pierce. He said if hell is true, he would walk over a nation of broken glass to tell people. This is very serious indeed, and although I did not do the story justice, the point remains the same.

Hell is the choice of man who rejects God; it is not the choice of a God who rejects man.

It is our job as the body of Christ to reattach the head of Jesus Christ, gain our senses, and start to effectively REFLECT the love of God for others, and transform and give vision to a lost and dying world.

I'll leave you with these quotes.

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.
That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the son of God: or else a madman or something worse... let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
-C.S. Lewis

"Jesus Christ came NOT like most moral teachers. Moral teachers came to make good people bad. Jesus Christ came to make dead people live"
-Ravi Zacharias

I love you all, I hope this moves even one person.