February 4, 2011

Acts 17
Paul’s 2nd Missionary Journey

“God overlooked people’s ignorance. . . in earlier times, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to him. For he has set a day for judging the world with justice by the man he has appointed, and he proved to everyone who this is by raising him from the dead.” Acts 17:30-31

I think it is important to come to grips with Jesus as Judge.
If Jesus really is judge of the whole world, then the implications of this for how I live are profound.


Pastor’s Reflections

I think it is important to come to grips with Jesus as Judge. If Jesus really is judge of the whole world, then the implications of this for how I live are profound.

The following statement uses simple logic to communicate to us the truth that Jesus is Lord, and if so, then we’ve got to figure out sooner or later, certainly before its too late, what it means to live under his Lordship.

Is Jesus God? Liar, Lunatic or God?
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say aobut Jesus. “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 things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on the level with man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and call Him a demon, or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” CS Lewis Mere Christianity pages 40-41