WHO ARE THE RELIGIOUS LOST?
The religious lost have hopeful beginnings. They offer unacceptable worship yet they resent the true worshippers. This is pretty typical. They hate true believers. They hate us because of our narrowness. They resent the fact that we say this is the truth and everything else isn’t. They resent our righteousness. They resent our goodness. They resent our virtue. They resent the blessing of God.
They love their sin, they are religious but they love their sin. And the righteous are a living rebuke to them. That’s why you see in the world in which you live today, they want to keep us out of the public discourse. They want to keep the Bible out of churches and replace it with fantasy literature and pagan Keller meditation.
They want to keep the Bible out of the schools, the Bible out of the politics, the Bible out of social life, the Bible out of the culture, the Bible out of everything. It’s like Darwin said, “I don’t reject the idea of God. I just reject the God of the Bible. I don’t want anybody telling me this is the truth. I don’t want anybody telling me I’m a sinner, this is sin and I’m on my way to hell and I need to recognize that God provided a substitute to die in my place Jesus Christ who will take away my sin.” That’s what they reject; they resent the true believers.
The religious lost get angry over the true believers. They get angry over those who say this is the truth and this alone is the truth and this is the only way of salvation. They are self-righteous.
This is characteristic of those who reject God and love their sin. They’re angry with God, they’re angry with the Bible, they’re angry with the God of the Bible, they’re angry with the people of the God of the Bible. They’re angry with the proclamation of the Scripture.
They work feverishly and angrily to obliterate the God of the Bible. And the people who proclaim the Bible from social influence. They don’t like us intimidating them.
Finally the religious lost are doomed. They have a hopeful beginning but come to the place where they offer unacceptable worship and resent those who truly worship God as God desires to be worshipped.
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