People Stink
You stink... I stink... we ALL stink... WITHOUT Jesus!
What's not FROM the Lord, accomplished BY Him and lived out FOR Him is defined by God as an evil thing, which in essence means, "good for nothing eternally." And what's good for nothing eternally also stinks to God. What we produce, without Him, stinks...
Why? The flesh is tainted with sin... and only that which is of grace has eternal value.
The testimony of the cross... and the blood of Jesus affirms that we without Jesus have nothing of any eternal value to offer to God.
There are some things we don't have all the answers for... but what man produces, without God, is evident and clear in Scripture and through the things we see in everyday life. Things like death, war and destruction are the direct results of man, our pride, our sin and our rebellion. And the very system that governs the people of this world is a system that doesn't factor God into everyday equation for life. The world system never ask the Lord what to do next nor does it seek Him or ways.
The outcome is ugly, even hard to swallow, and so often it's unexplainable, for us looking at it from ground level. But God has made the impossible possible through Jesus. He reveals to us the condition of a man's heart apart from Him supernaturally changing it. God describes our hearts as desperately wicked and every intention of it is continually evil or of no eternal value.
The word EVIL means "bad" or "good for nothing." Mankind is in a fallen state, or in a bad condition, and, as a result thereof, it is no longer fulfilling its created purpose, to glorify God in all that's done and said. Therefore, it is no longer of any eternal value unl |
