Sinclair Ferguson

Nobody lives that way.

If you think for 10 minutes about living that way in which nothing makes sense, in which there is no foundation for rationality, I think you will soon be driven to despair.

If you think for 10 minutes about living that way in which nothing makes sense, in which there is no foundation for rationality, I think you will soon be driven to despair.

But there's something else I think that we need to know, and that is that atheists are all inconsistent.

But there's something else I think that we need to know, and that is that atheists are all inconsistent.

They all borrow or steal from the implications of God's existence and from His creation in order to live.

They all borrow or steal from the implications of God's existence and from His creation in order to live.

And so, inevitably, there are what I call loose threads in their lives, inconsistencies.

And so, inevitably, there are what I call loose threads in their lives, inconsistencies.

And one of our responsibilities as Christians is to spot these inconsistencies.

And one of our responsibilities as Christians is to spot these inconsistencies.

Let me begin this week with a biblical word association test.

You know how these work.

I say a word and you say the first word that comes to mind.

Ready?

Revelation.

Now, if you're not a Christian, Revelation might prompt you to think of all kinds of things.

I remember a friend of mine getting a suitcase for her 21st birthday, which had the manufacturer's name embossed on it, Revelation.

So, I could imagine somebody might, remembering that, think suitcase.

But if you study the Bible for any length of time and know anything about theology, you know that Revelation is a word that describes the way in which God has made himself known to us.