An Infallible Person
Dear Champions,
The short excerpt is by Tim Keller, and the scripture is John 5:24 Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.
God has not given us an inescapable, infallible argument. In Jesus, He has given us an inescapable, infallible Person! Millions of people have found Him intellectually inescapable. On the one hand we're going to see Him unbelievably open, welcoming, empowering and inclusive with those who were outsiders and outcasts. You're going to see Him reaching out over and over to the poor, and to women, children, prostitutes, lepers, and even to collaborators with the enemy. Jesus was utterly unique! He was utterly outrageous! He was over the top in His inclusiveness and openness and in His reaching out to all those people.
But, on the other hand, you're going to see Him making self-centered claims. He says that He is going to judge the world on the last day, that He is the Author and Giver of life, that He alone has the authority to forgive sins, that He is equal with the Father. He makes claims that go beyond anything anyone has ever said outside of a mental institution.
Here's what's weird. He's so beautiful, so tender, so kind, and so humble. Jesus Christ lived a life of such moral beauty! He got hundreds of people to believe in Him including the Jews. They were the last people on earth who would ever believe that God could become human! How do you explain claims like that? How do you explain a life like that?
Champions, have a great week!-David Vining
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