For the sinner, no matter how terrible they may feel their sin is, there is
no legitimate reason to not turn towards Him and accept His free gift of
salvation. Many excuses are given, but in God's eyes all of those are
merely
weak and have no merit. R.A. Torrey preached about this and exhorts those
sinners, especially those considering turning to God, to stop
procrastinating and actually commit to Him.
May God bless,
Carl
my website -- http://www.nettally.com/saints/
my blog -- http://www.anniemayhem.com/cgi-bin/wordpress/
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Are You Criticizing God?
by R.A. Torrey
These words ought to awaken anyone who is not utterly beyond hope. Notice
the first two words and the last word. "O man" and "God." "O man, who art
thou that repliest against God?" Here God and man are put in sharpest
contrast, God in His infinite greatness and wisdom and man in his
infinitesimal smallness and ignorance. And in the Greek there is also a
strong emphasis on the "thou." "O MAN, who art thou that repliest against
GOD?" It will be a happy day for some of us if God will brand that text
upon
our memories so that we shall never be able to forget it nor get away from
it. "O man, who art thou that repliest against God?"
The most insanely daring thing that any man can do, the most exceedingly
foolish thing any man can do, the most desperately wicked thing that any
man
can do, is to reply against God, to enter into controversy with God, to
criticize God, to condemn God. Yet that is what many people are doing
When you hear a little child replying against his father or mother,
getting
into controversy, criticizing, condemning, you are filled with disgust and
indignation. It is something not to be tolerated for one moment. But what
is
it for any mere human being, any mere creature of the dust such as all of
us
are, to reply against, to criticize, to enter into controversy with, to
try
to prove wrong the Infinite and Eternal God? It is the most exceedingly
foolish and desperately wicked thing a human being can do.
The Folly and Wickedness of Entering into Controversy with God
There are four facts which show the exceeding folly and desperate
wickedness
of replying against God, of entering into controversy with God, of
criticizing or condemning God.
The first is the fact of the infinite majesty of God. Our text itself
contrasts the infinite majesty of God with the infinitesimal smallness of
man. It reads, "O man, who art thou that repliest against God?" Yes, who
art
thou, anyway? And who is God?
You are one out of 2,000,000,000 like yourself now inhabiting this globe.
And what is this globe on which you and I live? The earth is so small a
part
of the already known universe that if the sun were hollow, you could pour
into it 1,200,000 earths like ours and still there would be room enough
left
for them to rattle around in it.Yes, the sun itself is very, very small in
comparison with Arcturus and some of the other stars whose diameters have
been recently measured, and there are now known to be more than
225,000,000
of these great worlds we call stars in this universe of ours. God, with
whom
you are seeking to enter into controversy, seeking to criticize and
condemn,
made them all. "He made the stars also" (Gen. 1:16). "O man, who art thou
that repliest against God?"
We men in this day of increasingly successful investigation of the
incredible, and, as it seems to us, practically infinite, magnitude of the
stellar heavens are sometimes tempted to be puffed up because a few great
leaders and investigators among us are beginning to know a little about
these vast stellar worlds and interstellar spaces. But what about the God
who planned them all and made them all? Our increasing discoveries of the
vastness of the physical universe ought to fill us with an increasing
sense
of our own nothingness in comparison with the infinite greatness and
majesty
of Him who planned and made them all. But, alas, oftentimes it seems only
to
puff us up with pride that we are so wise as to understand a small part of
the ways and power of yon infinite God.
The second fact that shows us the exceeding folly and desperate wickedness
of replying against God, of entering into controversy with God, of
criticizing God, of condemning God, is the fact of the infinite and
absolute
holiness of God. "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all" (1 John
1:5). God is the One, as I read in the Scripture lesson tonight, in whose
presence the seraphim themselves, the "burning ones" (for that is what the
Hebrew word "seraphim" means), burning in their own intense holiness, must
veil their faces and feet in that infinitely holy Presence and keep
continually crying, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty" (Isaiah
6:3). God is the One in whose presence Isaiah, that holy man of old,
covered
his face and cried, 'Woe is me! for I am undone; for I am a man of unclean
lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, . . . for mine
eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts." God is the One in whose
presence
Job, the "perfect man," Job, who had stoutly maintained his integrity
before
all the persistent and united accusations of his friends, when he got one
glimpse of God face to face, overwhelmed with the sense of his own
nothingness and vileness in comparison with the infinitely holy One,
cried,
"I have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth
thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes" (Job
42:5-6).
Such is God. And "who art thou that repliest against God?" And what art
thou?
What are we all, the very best of us? Vile-the best of us is but a
loathsome
sinner. We may not yet realize the fact, but it is true. Our lives have
been
shot through and through by sin. Yet you undertake to stand in the
presence
of this Holy God, in whose presence the seraphim veil their faces and
their
feet, and reply against Him, to suggest what God ought to do, to enter
into
controversy with God, to criticize God for things which He has seen fit to
do, to murmur against God.
There is a third fact that shows us the exceeding folly and desperate
wickedness of replying against God, of entering into controversy with God,
of criticizing God, of condemning God, and that is the fact of God's
infinite wisdom. God is not only a Being of infinite majesty and holiness.
He is also a Being of infinite wisdom. We look up at the starry heavens
above our heads, we look at these wonderful worlds of light that stud the
heavens by night. We think of the overwhelming things about their
immensity
and the incredible speed and momentum of their movements as they rush
through space, and as we look up at them, if we are wise, we say, "Oh,
God,
what a Being of infinite wisdom as well as majesty Thou art that Thou
canst
guide these inconceivably enormous worlds as they go whirling through
space
with such incredible velocity and momentum."
And yet many of you here tonight do not hesitate to look up at that
Infinitely wise God who made these wonderful spheres of light, who guides
the whole universe in its wonderful, stupendous and bewildering course,
and
attempt to tell Him what you think He ought to do! Thou fool, art thou
mad?
No inmate of Patten ever did an insaner thing. "Who art thou?" The wisest
man on earth is but a child; the wisest philosopher does not know much;
the
greatest man of science knows but very little. What he knows is almost
nothing in comparison with what he does not know. What he does know, even
about the material universe, is as nothing compared with what he does not
know.
How much does the wisest scientist know even about this small planet? What
does he really know, for example, about earthquakes? Have you ever stopped
to think of the fact that the most confidently believed science of one
hundred years ago is regarded by all modern scientists as foolishness? If
we
are to judge the future by the past, the most confidently believed science
of today will be regarded as foolishness by the scientists of one hundred
years hence.
When I was giving special attention to scientific study not so very many
years ago, the nebular hypothesis was almost universally accepted. But
some
of the most advanced and reliable scientists of today are not only
questioning it, but declare, at least in private, that it is exploded.
What
the scientists of a hundred years ago taught as being settled forever is
known by our little children in the primary schools today as completely
disproven. What the best scientist of today thinks he knows to be true a
little child in primary school one hundred years hence will know to be
false. The best scientific knowledge of today will be regarded as
foolishness a hundred years from now, and the best scientific knowledge of
one hundred years from now will be foolishness to the Infinitely wise God.
Suppose some child of thirteen or fourteen should take a book on
philosophy
setting forth the ripest product of the best philosophic thought of today
and begin to criticize it, page by page. What would you think? Would you
stand and look at the boy and say with unbounded admiration, "What a
bright
lad he is?" No, you would say, "What a conceited idiot he is to undertake,
at his age and with his limited knowledge, to criticize the best
philosophic
thought of the day!" But he would not be so conceited an idiot as you or I
would be were we to attempt to criticize an infinitely wise God for we are
far less than children compared with the infinite God.
The most profound philosopher of today is but a little child compared with
the Infinite God. And yet you, who do not make any pretensions of being a
philosopher at all, take God's Book, you a little child, an infant, take
this Book which represents the best wisdom of God, and you sit down and
turn
it, page by page, and try to criticize it, and people stand and look at
you
and admire and say, "What a scholar!" But the angels look down and say,
"What a fool!" And what does God say? "O man, who art thou that repliest
against God?" "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord [the
Almighty and the Eternal] shall have [you] in derision" (Ps. 2:4).
There is a fourth fact that emphasizes the extreme folly and desperate
wickedness of replying against God, of entering into controversy with God,
of criticizing God, or condemning God, and that fact is that He is not
only
a Being of Infinite majesty, holiness, and wisdom, but also a Being of
infinite goodness and love. Why, man, you owe everything you have in the
world to God. You owe your very existence to Him. You owe to Him your
power
to see, your power to hear, your power to taste. You owe to Him your power
to breathe, to live, to walk, to work, your power to enjoy this wonderful
world which He has made, in which He permits and enables us to live.
'Every
good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the
Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning"
(James 1:17). The poorest of us, the most unfortunate of us, has an
immense
deal for which to be thankful. You who seem to have very little have
exceedingly much in comparison with nothing. Are you blind? Well, you can
hear and taste, can you not? Are you deaf, dumb, and blind? Well, you can
eat and enjoy your food, can you not? The man who has all five senses
would
be just as reasonable if he were to complain because he has not six as the
man who has four senses would be to complain because he has not five.
Thank
God for what you have, rather than complain against God for what you have
not.
Suppose I should have found on Thanksgiving Day a poor, half-starved tramp
and had taken him to my home, given him a good, well-cooked dinner of
roast
lamb, white potatoes, other vegetables, and pumpkin pie, and then he had
gone and complained against me to some other tramp because I did not give
him turkey and sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, mince pie, and plum
pudding.
Would he not have been an ungrateful cur? Yet not so, ungrateful as you
are
when you complain at the God who has given you taste, hearing, touch,
feeling, and many other blessings, because He has not given you sight
also.
The poorest of us, the most suffering of us, have an enormous deal for
which
to be thankful and all of it came from God. Not only that, but you and I
not
only have these things that we possess to be thankful for but,
furthermore,
every man of us has trampled God's law under foot; every one of us has
been
a sinner justly condemned before God. But God, instead of dealing with us
in
stem wrath and judgment, as we all deserve, has not only given us all
these
blessings, but, in addition, has given His own Son to die on the Cross of
Calvary in our place. He has given His best beloved, His dearest, His only
begotten Son. But in spite of all that wondrous love that did not stop
even
at the sacrifice of His own Son, some of you presume to criticize God, who
gave His Son to die for you. "O man, who art thou that repliest against
God?"
One of the greatest Italian statesmen of the last century, the greatest of
his day but one, was devoutly loved in his youth by a young woman. When he
entered the army of Garibaldi, this woman who loved him enlisted too, and
fought in the war by the side of her lover, just to be near him. And one
day
he was shot and fell on the field of battle, and that woman who loved him
rushed out beneath a rain of bullets, lifted her fallen lover from the
ground; and, amidst a terrific storm of bullets, carried her lover to
safety. Then she watched over him for days and weeks until she had nursed
him back to health. Suppose he had deserted her then, what would the whole
world have called him? In point of fact he married her, but afterward he
divorced her; though he was one of the ablest statesmen of the century,
Italy and all Europe, for all his brilliant gifts, never forgave him his
treatment of the devoted woman who had risked her life to save his.
But what has God done for you? The eternal God has consented that His
heart
should be torn and crushed to save you and me. Yet some of us dare to
enter
into controversy with this God of infinite love, to criticize that eternal
God who consented that His heart be torn and bruised and crushed to save
us.
Oh, the desperate wickedness, the amazing folly of replying against a God
of
infinite majesty, infinite holiness, infinite wisdom, and, above all, of
infinite love. "O man, who art thou that repliest against God?"
Who Repliest Against God?
But who is replying against God? Who is entering into controversy with
God?
Who is criticizing or condemning God? Five cl***** are replying against
God.
First of all, the men and women who complain of God's providential
dealings
with them are replying against God, are entering into controversy with
God,
are criticizing God and condemning God. Many a man or woman has said to
me,
"I think God is cruel." "Why do you think He is cruel?" One replies, "He
has
taken away my husband." Another, "He has taken away my wife." Another, "He
has taken away my child. He has taken away the light of our home."
Another,
"He has brought me down from financial prosperity to financial failure. I
once stood high in the business world. I now have to almost beg my bread,
and I say God is cruel." Another says, "If God is good, why did He permit
this awful disaster or that which laid waste a beautiful city or nation? I
think God is cruel."
You do? You do? You think God is cruel! Who is God? A Being of infinite
majesty, a Being of infinite holiness, a Being of infinite wisdom, a Being
of infinite love, a Being who gave His own Son to die that you might be
saved! "O man, who art thou that repliest against God?"
But you say, "I do not understand it." Why should you understand it? Who
are
you? If you were really wise, you would not ask to understand it. If you
had
really good sense, you would not feel any need of having it explained. You
would say, "I know God is infinitely good and infinitely wise. I know He
is
infinitely loving, too. I know He gave His Son to die for me, and though I
cannot understand it, nevertheless it comes from God's hand and I know it
is
all right. "****d came I [into this world]: ... the Lord gave, and the
Lord
hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord" (Job 1:21). 1 do not ask
to understand; I am perfbctly content to trust in the dark that God who is
so infinitely worthy of my trust.
I had two friends in England, very dear friends, who were beautiful
Christians. They had a lovely daughter. She grew to maidenhood and was
said
to have been an unusually beautiful girl in both face and character. Some
said she was the most beautiful character they had ever met. When this
lovely daughter was seventeen or eighteen, she was taken with rheumatic
fever, and, after awful suffering, died. The father and mother never
complained. They kissed the hand that smote.
Some time after this sorrow had befallen them, I was talking with them
about
it. They told me how God had sustained them in that trying hour. Only a
little while after this conversation, their second daughter, now grown to
womanhood, was also taken down with precisely the same malady, rheumatic
fever. Her fever ran up to 107 and stayed there day after day, and she
seemed beyond all hope. Then the mother's faith gave way, and she said,
"God
is cruel to take my second daughter when I never complained about the
first,
and not only to take my second daughter, but to take her in just the same
way He took the first." But God spared the child. She is well now, a
devoted
Christian woman in very active Christian work. And that mother has
repented
of her wickedness.
Oh, friends, it was wicked, very wicked. Our hearts were almost broken in
sympathy during the days that child hung between life and death. Telegrams
kept coming to me telling of her condition, and my heart bled for my
friends. But, nonetheless, I say that was wicked on the mother's part to
say
"God is cruel." That was exceedingly wicked, that was desperately wicked,
to
call God cruel. That same mother lost all three of her sons and her
husband
in the late war, but she has never again whispered that God is cruel. I
had
a letter from her only the other day that was full of trust and hope.
Some of you are passing through trials which, if the rest of us knew,
would
fill our hearts with sympathy and pain. But you are murmuring against God,
and that is wicked, that is exceedingly foolish, that is desperately
wicked;
for "O man, who art thou that repliest against God," against a God of
infinite majesty, against a God of infinite wisdom, against a God of
infinite holiness, against a God of infinite love, against a God who gave
His only begotten Son to die for you? But you say, "I do not understand
it."
Why should you understand it? Why should you ask to understand it? Who are
you that God should explain it to you? Oh, that we might always bear in
mind
who God is, and who we are; what God is, and what we are.
Then there is a second class who are replying against God, who are
entering
into controversy with God, who are criticizing and condemning God, namely,
those who are criticizing this Book and trying to pull this Book to
pieces.
This Book is God's Word. That is thoroughly established. When you
criticize
this Book, you criticize its Author, who is God. When you criticize this
Book, you criticize God. But you say, "I do not believe it is God's Word."
That does not alter the fact, not in the least. It is His Word-there is
abundant proof that it is His Word. I have proved over and over again in
this place that this Book is the Word of God. This Book is God's Word, and
whoever ventures to criticize it ventures to criticize God. Never forget
that. I repeat it, whoever ventures to criticize this Book ventures to
criticize God, and the one who criticizes God is guilty of exceeding folly
and desperate wickedness. You say, "I do not like that." I am sorry that
you
do not, for it is true, and I always feel profoundly sorry for the man or
woman who does not like the truth. They are in a bad way.
One night one of my workers in Minneapolis called me down to speak to a
man
who said that he was an infidel. "Why are you an infidel?" I asked.
'Because
I do not believe the Bible," he replied. 'Yes, but why do you not believe
the Bible?" "It is full of contradictions," he answered. "Show me one," I
quietly said, and handed him my Bible to find it. He said, "It is full of
them." 'Well," I said, 'if it is full of them, you ought to be able to
show
me at least one." "I don't pretend to know as much about the Bible as you
do," he blurted out. I said, "Then what are you talking about it for?" I
turned him to our Bible text of tonight, "O man, who art thou that
repliest
against God" Then I turned him to Matthew 12:36, 'Every idle word that men
shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." Then
I
said, 'The Bible is Gods Word, and you have said it is full of
contradictions, and in saying that you have condemned the Author, you have
condemned God, and Jesus said, Every idle word that men shall speak, they
shall give account thereof in the day ofjudgment." You have criticized
God,
and you will have to give account of it in the day of judgment, of all
these
words, these idle words that you have just used." He turned pale, and
said,
"I did not mean to do that." "But that is what you have done." And it is
what some of you have done in the last twenty-four hours. You have
ventured
to laugh at something in the Bible. When you did that, you laughed at God.
You ventured to set up some opinion of yours against what God says in His
Book. You ventured to enter into controversy with God, you ventured to
criticize something in the Bible, and when you did that, you criticized
the
Author of the Bible, you criticized God. "O man, who art thou that
repliest
against God?"
There is a third class who are replying against God, who are entering into
controversy with God, who are criticizing God, who are condemning God, and
that is those who make light of the Bible doctrine of salvation by atoning
blood, the Bible doctrine that we are saved through the shedding of the
blood of Jesus on the Cross of Calvary. That doctrine so frequently and so
unmistakably taught in God's Word is ridiculed today in many a so-called
Christian pulpit. Any pulpit that ridicules the doctrine of salvation by
atoning blood is not a Christian pulpit. A very noted preacher in New York
City, whose books have a wide sale, was re****ted to me by one who took
down
his words in his classroom to have said, "The doctrine of blood atonement
is
nauseating to me." Any preacher who ridicules the doctrine of salvation by
atoning blood is not a minister of Jesus Christ, he is a minister of
Satan,
no matter how genial and amiable a man he may be.
The Bible doctrine of salvation by atoning blood is ridiculed in this day
on
every hand. Some preachers have said it is foolish for me to preach this
"old doctrine." Well, it is an old doctrine, but it is a true doctrine.
And
I would rather believe and teach the old that is true than the new that is
false. I did not invent this doctrine. I do not know enough to invent it.
I
found it in that Book, and, thank God, I found it to be true in my own
life;
it saved me and I preach it, and it has saved thousands through my
preaching
of it. I preach it, but I did not invent it. God is the Author of this
doctrine, and when you criticize the preaching of it, you do not criticize
me, you criticize God. It would be a matter of no great consequence for
you
to criticize me or my preaching. Why should you not criticize me? I am not
infallible. I cannot see why I am not just as properly an object of
criticism as anybody else. It does not harm me, and it gives some people
lots of fun. Sometimes it greatly helps me. But, ah, when you criticize
this
doctrine you are not criticizing me, you are criticizing God, and that is
serious, tremendously serious. "O man, who art thou that repliest against
God?"
Then there is a fourth class who are replying against God, namely, those
who
complain of the Bible doctrine of retribution for sin, the Bible doctrine
of
endless punishment. This is not my doctrine. I did not get it up. Some say
that it is a medieval doctrine. No, it is not a medieval doctrine. They
did
not originate it in the Middle Ages. It is the doctrine of Jesus Christ,
taught by Him, not in the Middle Ages but in the first century. Why will
people who try to pose as scholars display such ignorance of the meaning
of
commonly used words?
Jesus Christ says distinctly in Matthew 25:41 that at the judgment of the
nations living on the earth when He comes again He will say to those on
His
left hand, 'Depart from me, ye cursed, into the everlasting fire, prepared
for the devil and his angels." And, five verses farther down, He says,
"And
these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into life
eternal." Now, I did not invent that. That was in the Bible before I was
born. Jesus said it eighteen centuries before I was born. I simply found
it
in the Bible and preach it because it is there. I received a letter once
from a Universalist preacher in New Hamp****re, saying, "The doctrine you
preach makes God a monster." Whoever says that this doctrine makes God a
monster is himself a blasphemer, for it is God's doctrine. When you say
that
"Whosoever preaches this doctrine makes God a monster," you say that God
is
a monster. A lady in Liverpool wrote me, "I cannot conceive how a God of
love should leave anybody to everlasting punishment." Why should she
conceive how a God of love should leave anybody to everlasting punishment?
It seemed to have never entered her head that anything she could not
conceive could be easily conceivable by someone who knew more than she
did.
If she had had even a modi*** of commonsense, she would have seen at once
that although she, with her very limited intelligence, could not conceive
it, an infinitely wise God might have a thousand reasons for doing it,
even
though she could not see one.
It has never dawned on some people that even God could by any possibility
know more than they know. It never dawned on me for years, and in those
days
I was a Universalist. I thought that all men would ultimately be saved. I
was a Universalist because I had an argument for the ultimate salvation of
everybody for which I could see no possible answer. I thought if I could
not
see an answer, why, no one could. So I challenged anybody to meet me on
that
argument and answer it. I went around with my head pretty high and said,
"I
have found an unanswerable reason for Universalism." I thought that I was
a
Universalist for all time and that anyone who was not a Universalist was
not
well posted.
One day it occurred to me that an infinitely wise God might possibly know
more than I did. That had never dawned on me before. It dawned upon me
also
that it was quite possible that a God of infinite wisdom might have a
thousand good reasons for doing a thing, when I, in my finite foolishness,
could not see even one. So my fondly cherished Universalism went up in
smoke.
If you get that thought, that an Infinitely wise God may possibly know
more
than even you do, and that God in His infinite wisdom might have a
thousand
good reasons for doing a thing when you cannot see even one, you will have
learned one of the greatest theological truths of the day-one that will
solve many of your perplexing problems in the Bible.
Men try to lay hold of infinite wisdom and fancy that they can squeeze it
down into the capacity of their pint-cup minds. But because they cannot
squeeze infinite wisdom into their pint-cup minds, they say, "I don't
believe that Book is the Word of God, because it has something in it that
I
cannot understand the philosophy of." Why should you understand the
philosophy of it? Who are you, anyhow? How much of a mind have you,
anyhow?
How long have you had it? How long are you going to keep it? Who gave it
to
you?
It is not our business to find out the philosophy of things; it is not our
business to see the reason of things. It is our business to hear what God
has to say, and when He says it, believe it, whether you can understand
the
philosophy of it or not.
When my children were small and ignorant, I told them a lot of things that
I
could not explain to them because of the limitations of their minds. There
are a great many things that even God cannot explain to you or to me
because
we do not know enough yet to have it explained to us. God is too wise, I
say
it reverently, to try to explain some things to a person who does not know
more than you do.
There is one more class that is replying against God, that is the men who
instead of accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior and surrendering to Him
as
their Lord and Master and openly confessing Him as such before the world,
are making excuses for not doing it. Jesus says in John 6:37, "Him that
cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." God says in Revelation 22:17,
"Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Anybody can come
to
Christ, and anybody who does come will be received and saved. Yet many of
you, instead of coming, are making excuses for not coming. By every excuse
you make you are replying against God, you are entering into controversy
with God, you are condemning God, who invites you to come. You cannot
frame
an excuse for not coming and accepting Christ that does not condemn God.
Every excuse that any mortal makes for not accepting Christ, in its
ultimate
analysis, condemns God.
For example, some of you say, "I am too great a sinner to come." But God
says in 1 Timothy 1:15, "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all
acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." And
when you say, "I cannot come because I am too great a sinner," you give
the
lie to God. He says you can. Another says, "I cannot come because I am too
weak to hold out in the Christian life." But God says in Jude 24, "He is
able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the
presence of his glory with exceeding joy." You say, "God cannot keep me."
God says He can. And when you say He cannot, you make God a liar and
condemn
God. Another says, "I cannot come because I have not the right kind of
feeling." But God says, "Whosoever will, let him come and take the water
of
life freely." God says, 'You can come," and you say, "I cannot," and that
excuse condemns God. Every conceivable excuse the sinner makes for not
coming to Christ at once, in its ultimate analysis, condemns God, and
every
man and woman who, instead of coming right to the Lord Jesus and accepting
Him, surrendering to Him, confessing Him as Master and going forth to
serve
Him-everyone who is making an excuse of any kind instead of accepting
Christ
is replying against God. "O man, who art thou that repliest against God?"
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