DISCIPLE

Job 11:7-8 poses important questions that even long ago men knew the answers to, but we seem to have gotten dumber over the ages.  "Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?" Man cannot "discover" God, "define" Him or reason his way to Him. God has revealed Himself, from the beginning, and given us the means to know Him.  The Bible is a divine revelation, a message sent from heaven to earth, and authenticated. Philosophy is nothing more than the meanderings of men who do not accept God's revelation. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts" ( Isaiah 55:8-9).     No history is more full of contradiction, confusion, frustration and the darkness of...

commenting on Romans 1:22-23, Barnhouse writes:      When man departed from God, there was an immediate way opened back into the presence of God, a way that was guarded by cherubim sent from Heaven with a flaming sword to keep that way open for man. It was the way of the altar, the way of the blood: a picture of the cross of Jesus Christ.  It was not long before Cain took the path of opposition. He did not want to submit himself to God and recognize his own sinfulness.  He killed his brother Abel, who was obeying God by faith in bringing the sin-offering of the lamb.  That murder was a great picture of human brotherhood.  It showed what the brotherhood of man really is: one man killing another who was from the same father and out of the same womb.  Do not prate about the brotherhood of man.  God has condemned all possibility of attaining any solution of the human problem apart from Himself.      Can we proje...