Unbelief
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1. Accounts Will Be Settled!
An unsaved farmer, who gloried in his unbelief, wrote a letter to a local newspaper saying, “Sir, I have been trying an experiment with a field of mine. I plowed it on Sunday. I planted it on Sunday. I cultivated it on Sunday. I reaped it on Sunday. I hauled it into my barn on Sunday. Now, Mr. Editor, what is the result? I have more bushels to the acre in that field than any of my neighbors have had this October.” He expected some applause from the editor who did not profess to be an especially religious man. But underneath the letter the editor published the simple comment: “God does not always settle his accounts in October”-the day of reckoning will come in His appointed time.
2. The Dirt Floor
Spurgeon, that great prince of preachers, was once staying at an inn in one of the valleys of northern Italy where the floor was dreadfully dirty. “I had it in my mind to advise the lady to scrub it,” said Spurgeon, “but when I perceived it was made of dirt, I reflected that the more she scrubbed the worse it would be.” Just so, God knew that there could be no improvement of the corrupt nature of man except through faith in His Son.
3. Don’t Speak of the Resurrection
A missionary was preaching on the resurrection when the native chief cried out, “What are these words about the dead? The dead arise? Will my father arise?” “Yes,” answered the missionary. “Will all that have been killed and eaten by lions, tigers, and crocodiles arise?” “Yes, and come to judgment.” “Hark!” shouted the chief, turning to his warriors. “You wise men, did you ever hear such strange talk?” The chief then turned to the missionary and said, “Sir, I love you much; but the words of resurrection are too great for me. I do not wish to hear about the dead rising again. The dead cannot rise; the dead shall not rise!” “Tell me, my friend, why not?” asked the missionary. “Because I have slain my thousands. Do you think I want them to rise again?” The gospel was all right as long as he did not have to face his sins.
4. An Ill-spent Life
A millionaire in New York came to the end of his journey and died. On his deathbed he gave continual expression to remorse for what his conscience told him had been an ill-spent life. “Oh,” he exclaimed, “if I could only be spared for a few years I would give all the wealth I have amassed in my lifetime! It is a life devoted to money-getting that I regret. It is this which weighs me down and makes me despair of the life hereafter!”
5. Success without God
“Father, are you going away?” asked a little girl of her dying rich father. “Yes, dear, and I am afraid you won’t see me again.” Then the little one asked, “Have you got a nice house and lots of friends there?” The successful man of the world lay silent for a while and then said, “What a fool I have been! I have built a great business here, but I shall be a pauper there.”
6. The Unacceptable Excuse
During a revival a young man said that he did not wish to become a Christian. When asked for his reason, he replied, “Several years ago I was in a man’s kitchen. Finding me there, he swore at me and kicked me out. He was a professing Christian, and from that time on I decided never to have anything to do with religion. And I never have to this day.” The young man was asked to write down his reason in full and sign it. Then it was handed back to him with the words, “Take this, and when you are asked for your excuse on the day of judgment, hand this up.”
7. No Comfort
Voltaire, that strange combination of freethinker, deist, and rabid denouncer of Christianity, gives scant comfort to atheists and agnostics in some of his pronouncements. “The world embarrasses me,” he said, “and I cannot think that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.” And in the same vein he confesses, “To whatever side you turn, you are forced to acknowledge your own ignorance and the boundless power of the Creator.”
8. Little Lost Mary
A mother attended a service in a large and crowded auditorium with her little daughter, Mary. In some manner the two became separated. The mother sent a note to the platform which was read aloud: “If there is a little girl named Mary Moore in the audience, who is lost, will she please raise her hand so her mother can find her.” No little girl raised her hand so the mother had the police searching the city for the child. Still not finding her, the mother came back and stood at the door of the auditorium as the people filed out. Among the last of them was Mary. Her mother snatched her up, crying, “Where were you, Mary?” “On the front row,” replied the little one. “Didn’t you hear the man read the notice, ‘If there is a little girl named Mary Moore in the audience, who is lost, will she please raise her hand so her mother can find her?’ ” “Yes,” said Mary, “I heard it.” “Then why didn’t you raise your hand?” “Why, Mother, it couldn’t have meant me,” said Mary, “for I wasn’t lost. I knew where I was.”
9. Fear of Death
Alfred Krupp of Prussia, the great cannon king, was literally a manufacturer of death. However, he had such a fear of death that he never forgave anyone who spoke to him of it. Every employee throughout his vast works was strictly forbidden to refer to the subject of death in conversation. He fled from his own home when a relative of his wife suddenly died there, and when Mrs. Krupp remonstrated, he became so enraged that lifelong separation ensued. During his last illness he offered his physician a million dollars if he would prolong his life ten years. But no amount of money could buy an extension of his life. How different it was with Jesus Christ, because He was not only God but man at the same time. When He became man, He came down for a definite time, that by His death and resurrection death might be conquered.
10. The Perplexed Skeptic
A young skeptic said to an elderly lady, “I once believed there was a God, but now, since studying philosophy and mathematics, I am convinced that God is but an empty word.” “Well,” said the lady, “I have not studied such things, but since you have, can you tell me where this egg comes from?” “Why, of course, from a hen,” was the reply. “And where does the hen come from?” “Why, from an egg.” Then the lady inquired, “Which existed first, the hen or the egg?” “The hen, of course,” rejoined the young man. “Oh, then a hen must have existed without having come from an egg?” “Oh, no, I mean that one egg existed without having come from a hen.” The young man hesitated: “Well, you see-that is-of course, well, the hen was first!” “Very well,” said she, “who made that first hen from which all succeeding eggs and hens have come?” “What do you mean by all this?” he asked. “Simply this: I say that He who created the first hen or egg is He who created the world. You can’t explain the existence even of a hen or an egg without God, and yet you wish me to believe that you can explain the existence of the whole world without Him!” Thus the old lady’s common sense sent the young man’s philosophy packing. Everything finite must have had a beginning. But the important issue is, what is behind every finite beginning? Is it self-begun, or is there an infinite and eternal mind, a personality, behind it, the same personality which is behind every finite beginning? This personality John chooses to call ho Logos, “the Word.”
11. Admit Error
How do you go about curing a drunk? The answer to that is, you can’t. Before a man can lead a consistently sober life, he has to be motivated from within. He has to admit to himself he has a real problem, and he has to want to lick it. Only then can anyone help him. It is the same way when a man is obsessed with a false idea. You can’t change his opinions simply by telling him he is wrong. He will only become more firmly set against you, and more determined than ever to defend his idea. No, a man must first admit to himself that following his idea to its logical conclusion in his life has led to utter spiritual poverty; he must want to know the truth. He must be willing to follow it once he is convinced.
12. Decorations of an Empty Heart
There are many people today who are religiously decorated. These decorations deceive the owners into believing they are Christians, that they are born-again believers. They have bought some religious pictures or other items. They hang up pictures of saints or one of Jesus Christ knocking at the closed door, but they have never opened their own door to Christ. They have no love for the cross of Christ, but they may have a very handsome crucifix hanging on the wall, or even a cross on a chain hanging around their necks. They may be garnished with generosity, giving their tithes to the church but withholding their hearts from Jesus Christ. The Bible is on the table or in the bookcase, but it is never read. These are the decorations of religion that the Lord is speaking about. People may pray longwinded prayers, show zeal, go to church, volunteer to cut the church lawn, yet these may only be the decorations of an empty heart.
13. The Purpose of the Storms
Early one morning the doorbell rang at a pastor’s home. There stood a young man, half drunk, in despair, at the end of his own rope. If ever there was a life on the way to shipwreck in a storm of his own creating, it was this young man’s. His wife, too, had come through a similar experience. Only 20 years old, she had been married twice, and with children by both husbands had suffered indescribable beatings-a storm of her own making. But in the midst of it all she had seen the face of Christ through the ministry of this faithful pastor. She had been saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus, and her life had been radically changed. Now her husband had come before dawn to wake up the preacher and ask for spiritual help. He could no longer live in the storm he had created. What had made him come to himself?-the recent death of a young soldier killed in the line of duty. The whole town was speaking of this fine Christian lad, now dead. The prodigal husband questioned why God would take such a good man who was a blessing to the world, and leave him, a miserable sinner, behind. The answer, of course, is that the young soldier was ready to meet his God, while the prodigal was not. This may be the reason He is keeping you alive. The storms God permits are temporary, but the purpose for which He permits them is eternal.
14. Everybody but God
One day Mark Twain took his little daughter on his knee and told her all about the rulers and other prominent men whom he had met in his travels. She listened attentively. When he had finished, she said, “Daddy, you know everybody but God, don’t you?” Mark Twain was certainly an intelligent person. Yet he rejected God.
15. A Pig in a Parlor
A Christian military officer, who visited the bedside of a dying soldier under his command, said to him, “I am going to ask you a strange question. Suppose you could carry your sins with you to heaven-would that satisfy you?” “The poor dying lad replied, “Why, sir, what kind of heaven would that be to me? I would be just like a pig in a parlor!” He was awakened to a sense of his lost state. The officer concluded, “The soldier was panting after a heaven of holiness, and was convinced if he died in his sin he would be quite out of his element in such a place of purity.”
16. Modern Pharisee
If a person is a seeker after signs from heaven in order that he or others may believe, do you realize that he falls into the same category as those who tempted Jesus and is classified by the Lord Jesus as belonging to a wicked generation? The word of God should be the basis of our proclamation that Jesus Christ has done enough for Him to be declared the Son of God.
17. Stranger in Heaven
Robert Laidlaw, in his little gem of a tract, The Reason Why, asks: “Would it be kindness to transfer a poor ragged beggar into the glare of a beautiful ballroom? Would he not be more conscious of his rags and dirt? Would he not do his best to escape again to the darkness of the street? He would be infinitely happier there. Would it be kindness and mercy on God’s part to bring a man with his sins into the holy light of Heaven if that man had rejected God’s offer of the only cleansing power there is? If you and I would not wish our friends to see inside our minds now and read all the thoughts that have ever been there (and our friends’ standards are perhaps not any higher than our own), what would it be like to stand before God, whose absolute holiness would reveal our sin in all its awfulness?” The Bible says you cannot sow thistles and reap figs. You cannot live for the lusts of the flesh here and expect to enjoy the things of the Spirit hereafter. “For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting” (Gal 6:8).
18. A Child Shall Lead
A skeptical physician declared he could see no reason why he should have to come to the cross of Christ to be saved. A friend gave him a famous book on apologetics with a powerful defense of the reasonableness of the gospel. It satisfied the doctor’s reason, but it did not move his will. A short time later he was called to the bedside of a little girl who was dying. She whispered that she had something to say to him, that she hardly had the courage to, as it was about his peace with God. But she added, “Tomorrow morning, when I am stronger, I will tell you.” But in the morning she was dead. This led to the physician’s conversion and a subsequent life of dedicated Christian service. God used a child rather than an apologist of the faith to lead a learned man to Christ. Very interestingly the word mœron in Modern Greek has come to mean “child, baby.”Thus we could paraphrase 1 Cor 1:27 as “But God has chosen the mœra-the foolish things or those who are like little children-and the weak ones of the world, to confound the wise and mighty ones.”
19. Pride of Reason
A Christian once served on a parliamentary commission with Professor Thomas H. Huxley. One Sunday they stayed together in a little country inn. “I suppose you are going to church this morning,” said Huxley. “I am. I always go to church on the Lord’s Day,” replied the Christian. Huxley said, “Suppose you sit down and talk with me about religion-simple, experimental religion.” Sensing something of heart hunger in the great scientist, the associate replied, “If you mean it, I will.” Then he spoke out of a rich, experimental knowledge of the saving and satisfying power of Christ. Huxley listened intently. Grasping the hand of the Christian, he said with deep feeling, “If I could believe what you have said about the cross of Christ and His pardoning love, I would be willing to give my right hand.” He really didn’t have to make that sacrifice. All he had to give up was the belief that the eye, the ear, the mind, could know all that there is to know and experience. Had he only been willing to swallow the pride of reason and to accept God’s free gift, he too could have experienced the power of God unto salvation.
20. Everything but the Bible
Marshall Duroc, an avowed atheist, was once telling Napoleon a very improbable story, at the same time giving his opinion that it was true. The Emperor remarked, “There are some men who are capable of believing everything but the Bible.” There are some people who say they cannot believe the Bible, yet their capacities for believing anything that opposes the Bible are enormous.
21. Spiritually Blind
A minister who faithfully proclaimed the Gospel in an open-air meeting was challenged at the close by an unbeliever who stepped from the crowd and said, “I don’t believe in heaven or hell. I don’t believe in God or Christ. I haven’t seen them.” Then a man wearing dark glasses came forward and said, “You say there is a river near this place? There is no such thing. You say there are people standing here, but it cannot be true. I haven’t seen them. I was born blind. Only a blind man could say what I have said. And only a spiritually blind man could say what you have said. The Bible says of you, ‘The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned’ (1 Cor 2:14). Doesn’t the Word of God say, ‘The fool hath said in his heart, There is not God’?” (Ps 14:1).
22. No Fear nor Hope in Death
When Robert Owen, the notorious freethinker, visited Alexander Campbell to arrange the preliminaries for the great debate that was to follow, they walked about the farm till they came to the family burying ground. “There is one advantage I have over the Christian,” boasted Mr. Owen. “I am not afraid to die. Most Christians have fear in death, but, if some few items of my business were settled, I should be perfectly willing to die at any moment.” “Well,” replied Mr. Campbell, “you say you have no fear in death; have you any hope in death?” “No,” said Mr. Owen after a thoughtful pause. “Then,” said Mr. Campbell, pointing to an ox standing nearby, “you are on a level with that animal. He has eaten till he is satisfied, stands in the shade whisking off the flies, and has neither hope nor fear in death.” How true is the saying, “They that die without dying thoughts shall die without living comforts.”
23. The Blind Atheist
Shelley could write of the exquisite beauty of nature and yet was blind to its Source. He had often visited the Alps and exulted in their breathtaking majesty. Yet when he signed the guest book at the inn he added “atheist” after his name. The next visitor looked at it and added, “If an atheist then a fool; if not a fool then a liar.”
24. Atheist Faces Death
For the person who is out of Christ, death is generally viewed with terror. It is said that the French nurse who was present at the death of Voltaire, being urged to attend an Englishman whose case was critical, said, “Is he a Christian?” “Yes,” was the reply, “he is a Christian in the highest and best sense of the term-a man who lives in the fear of God. But why do you ask?” “Because,” she answered, “I was the nurse who attended Voltaire in his last illness, and for all the wealth of Europe I would never watch another atheist die.”
25. The One Supreme Mystery
A young man who was studying medicine could not accept the doctrine of the supernatural birth of Jesus Christ. He went to a preacher who reasoned with him but left him in greater perplexity than ever. When he had finished his medical studies, he went to practice medicine in a rural community. One Sunday he decided to go and hear a backwoods preacher, not thinking for a moment that such a man could change his viewpoint on the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. But this humble preacher knocked more skepticism out of the doctor in half an hour than he had accumulated in all his years of medical school. He said, “If anybody here is troubled about the mystery of God becoming man, I want to take you back to the first chapter of Genesis and the first verse. ‘In the beginning God. . . .’” He looked down into the audience very searchingly. The doctor was so self-conscious that he felt the speaker was looking directly at him. Then the preacher continued, “My brother, let me ask you this: Do you believe God was in the beginning? That is to say, that before the beginning began, God was? Somebody had to be, to start things off. Science tells us how things evolve and grow, but not how they first started.” The doctor whispered to himself, “Yes, I believe that.” “Now,”
the preacher said, “if you believe that God was before the beginning, you believe the only mysterious thing of this universe.” “If I believe that, God knows I could believe anything else in the world,” thought the doctor to himself. His conclusion that memorable morning was, “I went to college and traveled through the mysteries of the theory of reproduction and cell formation, and now I realize that I was just a common fool; that if God was in the beginning, that was the one supreme mystery of all mysteries of this mysterious universe of God.”
26. A Firm Stand for Christ
A wealthy unbeliever who had spent much money on the education of his daughter, returned home from a business trip to be informed by his wife that the girl had gone forward and accepted Christ at an evangelistic meeting. When she ran to greet him, he struck her several times and told her to get out and never come back. She took shelter in a friend’s home and spent the night in prayer. Early next morning the repentant father sent for her to come back. He met her at the gate, saying, “I give you my heart and hand to go with you to heaven.” The mother followed, and all rejoiced in the saving power of Christ. A firm stand for Christ did it all.
27. Power of God unto Salvation
A Bible-believing Christian was assailed by an atheist who said, “I don’t understand how the blood of Jesus Christ can wash away my sin, nor do I believe it.” “You and Saint Paul agree on that,” answered the Bible student. “How so?” “Turn to the first chapter of 1 Corinthians and read verse 18: ‘For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.’ ” The atheist looked startled and began to study the Bible, where he soon found the cross to be the power of God unto salvation.
28. Napoleon’s Question
As Napoleon was blazing his trail to the throne, he sought to conquer Egypt. Along with him as assistants he had some of the best engineers and scientists of France. It was natural they should talk about the land of the Nile and the part religion had played in its history. They agreed that religion had colored and carved the history of Egypt, but that all religion was only legend and humbug. It couldn’t be otherwise, seeing that even God was a myth. So they talked beneath the starry heavens, these thinkers of France. They were atheists, as indeed so many of their fellow countrymen were at that time. Napoleon listened and contributed nothing to the conversation, but as he rose to leave he lifted his hand and pointed to the silent stars that shone so brilliantly through the deep black sky. “Very ingenious, Messieurs,” he said, “but who made all that?”
29. The Challenged Atheist
An atheist who had just finished lecturing to a great audience invited any who had questions to come to the platform. After a short interval, a man who had been well-known in the town as a hopeless drunkard but who had lately been converted, stepped forward. Taking an orange, he turned to the lecturer and asked him if it was a sweet one. Very angrily the man said, “Idiot, how can I know whether it is sweet or sour, when I haven’t tasted it?” To this the converted drunkard retorted, “And how can you know anything about Christ if you have not tried Him?”
30. The Atheist Persuaded
A young preacher once called upon an old atheist who was constantly arguing against the existence of God. He found him sitting in his sawmill just over the lever that lifts as the saw leaves the log. As the old man began to denounce the Deity, that lever sprang, catching him under the heels and flinging him backward and down into the stream. As he plunged, however, he shrieked as loudly as he could, “God have mercy!” The preacher ran around, waded into the water, and drew the struggling man ashore. Said the pastor, “I thought that you did not believe in a God.” As soon as the atheist stopped struggling he said in a subdued voice, “Well, if there is not a God, there ought to be one, to help a man when he can’t help himself!”
31. Who Made It?
One of the greatest atheists of the past was Robert G. Ingersoll. In spite of his atheism, he had for a friend the famous preacher, Henry Ward Beecher. In the preacher’s study was an elaborate celestial globe which had been sent him with the compliments of some manufacturer. On the surface in delicate workmanship were raised figures of the constellations and stars which composed them. The globe struck Ingersoll’s fancy one day when he was visiting the preacher. He turned it around and around with admiration. “That is just what I want,” he said, “Who made it?” “Who made it, do you say, Colonel?” repeated Beecher. “Who made this globe? Why nobody, of course. It just happened.” Well, we all know better than that. We know that things don’t just happen but they have a cause, and there must be a First Cause of all things. That is as far as the mind of man will take him. The logical conclusion- there must be God, the Creator.
32. Fools for Christ’s Sake
Henry M. Stanley found Livingstone in Africa and lived with him for some time. Here is his testimony: “I went to Africa as prejudiced as the biggest atheist in London, but there came for me a long time for reflection. I saw this solitary old man there and asked myself, ‘Why on earth does he stop here-is he cracked, or what? What is it that inspires him?’ For months after we met, I found myself wondering at the old man carrying out all that was said in the Bible- ‘Leave all things and follow Me.’ But little by little his sympathy for others became contagious. My sympathy was aroused, seeing his piety, his gentleness, his zeal, his earnestness, and how he went about his business. I was converted by him, although he had not tried to do it.”
33. The Philosopher’s Answer
A heathen philosopher, on being asked the question, “What and where is God?” desired two days in which to prepare an answer. Partly pressed with the difficulties of the subject itself, and partly encumbered and confounded by polytheistic prejudices, he doubled and redoubled the time. When required to state the reason for his delay, he acknowledged, “It is a question in which my insufficient reason is lost. The oftener I ask myself, ‘What is God?’ the less able I am to answer.” How much more are you unable to reason why the omnipotent God, in order to save your soul, had to become man in the person of Jesus Christ and die on a cross. That is beyond reasoning, but it is within grasp of one’s experience.
34. Wisdom Has to Go
The crust is bread itself; the ice is the very water of the river; and the hard ground is the very soil of the earth. It is the very substance of the thing that it imprisons. Each forms a barrier which resists outside influences. That’s exactly what happens to man. His wisdom and self-assurance are the barriers that keeps God’s wisdom from reaching him. A child is fit for the Kingdom of God because, as yet, he has not formed a crust-like barrier.
35. Man-Spiritually Blind
A minister was asked by a Quakeress, “Does not thee think that we can walk so carefully, live so correctly, and avoid every fanaticism so perfectly, that every sensible person will say, ‘That is the kind of religion I believe in’?” He replied, “Sister, if thee had a coat of feathers as white as snow, and a pair of wings as shining as Gabriel’s, somebody would be found somewhere on the footstool with so bad a case of color blindness as to shoot thee for a blackbird.”
36. Hearers Only
An auditor is one who sits down with the other students, and has the same advantages of learning, but does not have the same responsibilities. When examinations are given, he does not have to take them. He is just an auditor. He may have listened very carefully and have greatly benefited from what he has heard, but he does not have to be checked by his professor. He doesn’t have to hand in any term papers or theses. He feels very free when he sees the other duly registered students studying hard while he can take it easy. But the day of graduation comes, and you know what happens then. The one who sat for the examination and had responsibilities as well as duties receives a diploma, a degree, and can be a practicing lawyer, teacher, doctor, businessman, etc. The auditor, however, can have nothing at all, except possibly a certificate showing that he had been physically present in class while the professor gave the lectures on a certain subject.
37. Blinded by Sin
Isn’t light self-revealing? Do we need to stand out in the street and shout to those who pass by, “That’s the sun,” as we point to it in all its brightness? The sun is self-revealing in the same sense that Jesus Christ was and is the Light of the world. The fact that John the Baptist came to give his witness about the Light did not in any way steal from it the power to reveal itself. The necessity for the human testimony of the Baptist is a clear indication of the complete depravity of man, his inability to comprehend that which is spiritual. His mind and heart have been so darkened by sin that, seeing the Light, he does not recognize it as the Light. We must also remember what men and women actually saw down here on earth was a human Jesus. Their darkened vision could not see anything superhuman in Him. It was necessary for someone like John the Baptist to tell them that this One who walked with them and who ate with them was the Light.
38. God a Necessity
During the French Revolution, Robespierre, himself an inhuman monster, quickly saw that the renunciation of religion would soon bring about the dissolution of all society. He there upon began to speak in favor of religion, though he admitted that he had been an indifferent Catholic. He ended his first speech in that direction with the words, “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.” But God has to reveal Himself to man in order for man to know Him fully. He has promised to do this through His Word.
39. Sin Blinds
A little boy who had been born blind underwent an operation to restore his sight. The light was let in slowly. Then one day his mother led him out of doors and uncovered his eyes, and for the first time he saw the sky and earth. “O Mother!” he cried, “Why didn’t you tell me it was so beautiful?” She burst into tears and said, “I tried to tell you, dear, but you could not understand me.” Sinful man is also blind to the splendor and the glory of the light of the gospel. The only way he can comprehend it is to let the light in, through the enabling of the Holy Spirit.
40. Hidden Treasure
Two men were sent to check a rumor that iron lay beneath the surface of a certain piece of ground. One, a scientist and mineralogist, conscious of his own limitations, took along some instruments. The other, a buoyant, self-confident individual, said, “I believe what I can see; and what I can’t see I won’t believe.” He walked rapidly over the field and said, “Iron? Nonsense! I see no iron; there is no iron here.” And that is what he stated in his report. The other man did not trust his eye at all but looked at his instruments. The needle on one pointed to the fact that a rich deposit of iron did lie beneath the earth’s surface. As he made his report he said, “My eye couldn’t see it, but my magnet discerned it.” As the eye cannot see minerals hidden in the earth, so it cannot see what is in the heart of God toward man. Man can look upon the crucified Christ and fail to see God’s plan of redemption.
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