Who Am I? (radio broadcast)

Driving home: Man alone was made with the capacity to know God. Man alone was made with the ability to hold conscious and delightful communion with God.

An analogy is used to distinguish between an animal accidentally spilling feed (no moral significance) and Adam disobeying God's command (true guilt), illustrating man's unique moral accountability as a creature made in God's 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 through sin, we have become alienated from God, spiritually deaf, blind, and dead.

A series of rhetorical questions describes a fool who destroys his own thinking, sight, or hearing in pursuit of something, likening this to humanity's self-destructive fall into sin, which has blinded and deafened them spiritually.

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

Driving home: I will put enmity, warfare, between the seed of the woman and between the serpent and his seed.

The story of God seeking Adam and Eve in the garden after their sin ('Adam, where are you?') illustrates God's initiative in pursuing fallen humanity.

God's intention to intervene into the human predicament and to rescue man from his sin. There in Genesis chapter 3, the very chapter which records man's original sin, there is a marvelous ray of light that breaks forth amidst the darkness of human depravity. It is God who comes seeking man, the creature, Adam and Eve are found hiding among the trees of the garden. But God takes the initiative and comes to them saying, Adam, where are you?

11:25 - 12:06 Read in full sermon

The point: Throw the weight of your guilty soul upon Jesus Christ, resting upon Him as your only hope for salvation.

The Greek preposition for 'faith toward' is explained using the analogy of setting something upon a table, illustrating how faith means resting the weight of one's soul upon Christ.

That is, he called upon men to throw the weight of their guilty souls not upon an institution, not upon a ritual, not upon a set of rules, but upon a person. Faith literally upon our Lord Jesus Christ. The little Greek preposition literally means to rest upon. If I were to set something upon the table, that would be the preposition I would use.

21:56 - 22:28 Read in full sermon