Sinclair B. Ferguson

And if that's the case,

And if that's the case,

What you really need to do is to tell the Lord Jesus about it, because he's promised to forgive you, and he's also promised to begin to cleanse you and make you more like himself.

What you really need to do is to tell the Lord Jesus about it, because he's promised to forgive you, and he's also promised to begin to cleanse you and make you more like himself.

And in the rest of the week, I want to try and talk about some of these people that John Newton talks about.

And in the rest of the week, I want to try and talk about some of these people that John Newton talks about.

And I think maybe you'll be able to recognize them.

And I think maybe you'll be able to recognize them.

We've been thinking this week about God's revelation of Himself in creation.

His creation apocalypse, as we might say.

And we've been seeing just how all-embracing that revelation is.

It not only surrounds us in the created order, but it also invades us because we are part of that created order, and especially because we've been created as the image of God.

Now the Bible teaches us that even though we've distorted that image by our sinfulness, it hasn't been destroyed.

We can try to suppress that fact, the fact that we know that God is and that we are made as His image and likeness, but we can never ultimately destroy it.

So there's no escape from revelation.

We're spectators of it and we are participants in it.

Everyone who claims to be an atheist will somewhere, somehow, sometime give themselves away.

Somewhere along the line, it will become clear that the atheism that they claim is simple intellectual honesty, in fact, has deep moral roots, because deep down, as Paul says in Romans 1.30, they are haters of God.

Don't you sometimes think to yourself, why do so many of these people who tell me they don't believe in God get so angry about Him?

After all, they've just told me that He doesn't exist.