Who am I?

The point: Accept the reality that we are made in the image of God, with a capacity to know, commune with, and be accountable to Him.

This example illustrates that animals lack moral accountability, contrasting with humanity's moral obligation to God due to being made in His image.

Man alone was able to receive God's will for him as his creature. Man alone was made with a moral obligation to obey God. And man alone was made with a real accountability to God. We might imagine one of the cows or the other beast of the field that God made accidentally kicking over a bucket of feed that Adam might have set before it.

3:55 - 4:22 Read in full sermon

The point: Accept the biblical teaching that as creatures made in the image of God, we have, through sin, become alienated from God, spiritually deaf, blind, and dead.

This analogy compares a man who destroys his own senses (sight, hearing, life) in pursuit of knowledge to humanity's foolishness in Adam, destroying spiritual faculties by seeking what God forbade.

What would you call a man who in the pursuit of knowledge destroyed his faculty of thinking? Who in pursuit of seeing beautiful things put his own eyes out? What would you call a man who in the desire to hear lovely sounds pierced his own eardrums? What would you call a man who in the pursuit of finding a higher and more meaningful life killed himself?

9:28 - 9:58 Read in full sermon