Thy Will Be Done
Dear Champions,
The short excerpt is by Tim Keller, and the Scripture is Romans 1:22-24 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
To those who object to the doctrine of hell C.S. Lewis asked several questions. What are you asking God to do? Wipe out all past sins? He did so on the cross. To forgive them? They will not ask for forgiveness. To leave them alone? Alas, that is what He must do.
Lewis points out the truth of Romans 1 – God gives people what they want. Do you want to be your own person and live without God? He will let you. Hell is a monument to human freedom.
There are two kinds of people. There are those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, thy will be done. It is such hell because it is a self choice. Most people have a bad view of hell – people in a pit trying to get out and God laughs and closes the lid to keep them in. Not so. No one in hell is saying let me out because God gives them up to THEIR desires.
2 Peter 3:9 . . . The Lord is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. We serve a God that would rather die for us than to live without us.
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