Sunday, July 17, 2011

Bible Truth #81 - Luke 10:22

“All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

Once again we see in Holy Scripture, this time in Jesus own words, that unless Jesus reveals God to a lost person, they CAN’T know the Father. It is God the Son who chooses to whom He will reveal the Father. Man can’t do it on his own. He won’t even try because he doesn’t understand ANYTHING from the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:14) and he hates the One doing the revealing (John 3:20), Jesus, the Light of the world!

And you can’t say that He reveals the Father to those who believed. You can’t believe something you know nothing about. The revelation comes first (by God’s choosing, at the time He chooses, to whom He so chooses), and THEN the believing because just as EVERYTHING else we receive is given to us, so is belief. (Philippians 1:29)

Let me counter one argument the Arminian may have. “God reveals Himself to everyone through nature! Romans 1:20 says God is clearly seen so men are without excuse.” Please go read Romans 1:20 again.

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

Men are without excuse to acknowledge God as Creator, not Savior. Jesus saves, not nature, and not creation. The Gospel is not in nature (see Bible Truth #78). Romans 1:20 clearly states what is revealed about God - His eternal power and Divine nature - revealed in nature is NOT God the Son, the Savior. And going back to Luke 10:22, Jesus said that HE was the one who revealed The Father. Is there anything in Romans 1:20 regarding Jesus? Other than “through Him all things were made...” (John 1:3) which is simple fact that a man without the Holy Spirit won’t understand or accept, there is nothing in nature to prove Jesus was the One through Whom the cosmos come into existence AND that He alone saves.

Bottom Line - Jesus reveals the Father to whom He wants - it’s His choice and He chooses few.


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