Sinclair B. Ferguson

I imagine that would have taken not a little courage.

And sometimes it will take not a little courage for us to do the same with people who are supremely self-confident and hate the hubris of their sinful hearts being unmasked.

But we do need to look for and listen for these loose threads.

Some of them will be less obvious.

Some of them will be very obvious.

So let's ask the Lord for eyes to discern them and courage to begin to pull them, so that we may help people whose foolish hearts, as Paul says, have become darkened.

Help them to see their need and to point them to Jesus Christ.

And let's not forget to thank God daily that we see His handiwork in everything He has made, and that He has made us as His image, and in Jesus Christ, He's transforming us back into that image so that we may be like Him again.

Yesterday I said that I thought we probably needed to think more about this biblical idea that since the whole of creation is a revelation of God, then nothing is ultimately atheistic.

Yesterday I said that I thought we probably needed to think more about this biblical idea that since the whole of creation is a revelation of God, then nothing is ultimately atheistic.

There's no last exit from divine revelation.

There's no last exit from divine revelation.

I mentioned a Dutch theologian, Herman Bavinck.

I mentioned a Dutch theologian, Herman Bavinck.

Let me mention another great Dutch theologian, Abraham Kuyper.

Let me mention another great Dutch theologian, Abraham Kuyper.

Here's a beautiful statement he makes in his Encyclopedia of Theology when he says, if the cosmos is the theater of revelation, in this theater, man is both actor and spectator.

Here's a beautiful statement he makes in his Encyclopedia of Theology when he says, if the cosmos is the theater of revelation, in this theater, man is both actor and spectator.

We were thinking yesterday about being spectators of revelation.

We were thinking yesterday about being spectators of revelation.