The Gospel in Genesis: From Fig Leaves to Faith (Truth for All Time) by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Author:D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9781846251375
Publisher: Day One Publications
Published: 2010-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

Satan blinds the mind. The captivity is such that we are not allowed to think straightly. We are not allowed to see the meaning of the gospel.

There is the problem. That is the situation. What can be done? I have already told you that man can do nothing about it. And until you have come to see and to believe and to accept that, you cannot possibly accept the gospel that is to follow. None of us will believe in Christ if we think we can put ourselves right. We have to see our hopelessness as sinners before we can ever see our need of the Savior. Men and women are totally helpless. They are like Adam and Eve, shivering, frightened, alarmed, terrified, not knowing what to do, listening to the pronouncement of judgment, and thrust out into the misery and wretchedness and hopelessness of life.

But, thank God, I repeat that this is not the end of the story. God now announced and revealed his program, in this fifteenth verse of this third chapter of the book of Genesis. I will never allow anybody to take this out of my Bible. It is my gospel. It is the beginning of it all. I do not understand it apart from this. This is the whole message of the Bible. It is a message to the effect that God will conquer and defeat Satan and deliver people from that enemy’s foul dominion. It is nothing less than that. That is how God himself announced his own gospel. It is not simply an announcement that he will make us happier and better and brighter. Not at all! The purpose is to deliver us out of that bondage. Satan must be dealt with. Satan must be conquered and vanquished. And God announced his program for accomplishing that great and mighty end. That, I say again, is the message of the whole Bible from here to the very end.

The Bible is not a book that tells us what we must do to put ourselves right. The Bible is not just a book with an appeal to us to do this, that, or the other, to accept certain ideas and put them into practice. It is not a book that teaches morality or ethics. It is not primarily a book that asks us to do anything. I will tell you what it is—it is a great announcement of what God has done. It is God acting, God coming into the garden to the man and woman in their utter hopelessness. What if he had not done that? Then we would have no gospel. There would be no light. The world would be in darkness at this moment. There would be nothing to say. There would be no hope. But God has come, and God has spoken, and he has revealed a plan and a program.

The Bible is revelation. It is not what man thinks or what man aspires after. It is not what man proposes. It is entirely from God.

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