Sinclair B. Ferguson

And in some ways, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

But my question today is why has this transformation, indeed revolution, taken place?

And why is it that we have a society of so many troubled youngsters?

And why is it that despite governments and organizations spending endless millions, the situation is actually getting worse rather than better?

I think our society has become like the woman with the issue of blood in the Gospels.

The more she spent on trying to get better, the worse she got.

Well, how this has happened is actually relatively simply explained.

The people we are now called influencers told us, if we just get rid of the Christian faith and the God of the Bible, we'll return to the basically good, happy, well-adjusted people we were before the gospel ever came.

Sadly, they were not thinking either clearly or historically.

We weren't that before the gospel came.

We were pagans.

So it's hardly surprising there has been a massive loss of certainty today about who we are.

You see, when a society gets rid of God's identity, when a society gets rid of God Himself, something follows logically, even if gradually.

We inevitably get rid of our own identity too.

Why?

Because as Genesis 1, 26 through 28 teaches us, man, male and female, was made as the image and likeness of God.

And if we get rid of God, then however gradually it happens, man's basic identity also begins to fragment and to crumble.

And if we reject who we really are, then we're bound to stumble in the dark trying to discover who we are unless we return to God.

It's significant, incidentally, that when Scripture says man in this context in Genesis 1, it means man, male, and female.

So two things have been built into our deep down created consciousness.