Sinclair Ferguson

He's simply living and now dead proof of what Paul says in Romans chapter 1.

He has suppressed the truth he has known and he's done it not because of intellectual honesty but because of unrighteousness.

You know, if Yevgeny Yevtushenko had been a Christian, I think he might have wanted to pull on this loose thread that was so obviously sticking out of the poorly woven garment of Sir Kingsley Amis's bravado and pointed out the inconsistency between what he professed to believe and what he really deep down believed.

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.

This week we've been thinking about divine revelation.

This week we've been thinking about divine revelation.

The word the New Testament uses is apokalupsis.

The word the New Testament uses is apokalupsis.

the word that gives us the alternative title for the last book of the Bible, the Apocalypse of John.

the word that gives us the alternative title for the last book of the Bible, the Apocalypse of John.

It means unveiling, disclosing something to us that otherwise would be hidden from us.

It means unveiling, disclosing something to us that otherwise would be hidden from us.

And yesterday I was commenting on the fact that God reveals Himself in everything that He has made.