Podcast Appearances
That pleases me because the good soil hearer in the parable of the sower is he who hears and understands.
That's what Philip the Evangelist said to the Ethiopian eunuch.
Do you understand what you're reading?
And so what we want to do is not say, Jesus, help your marriage, drug problem, alcohol problem, fill the God-shaped vacuum in your heart.
No, no.
We want you to understand you're under God's wrath.
If you die in your sin, you'll end up in hell justly.
You need God's mercy.
Do you understand that?
Can you see your house is on fire?
Are you awakened and alarmed, or are you just awakened where you say, I can see what you're saying?
No, I want you to run from the house.
I want you to flee to the Savior, because that's what a genuine Christian is, someone who's fled to Jesus and sought mercy.
Yeah, I'm not around my sister all the time, but I do have a sister and I'm terrified of her.
Now, she's not a monster.
She's very sweet and very nice.
But this is why I'm terrified to share the gospel with her.
If I offend a thousand atheists to a point where they want to kill me, I haven't lost anything.
But if I offend my sister, I've lost everything.
I don't want to offend her.