THE CHOSEN METHOD

A Sermon on the Simplicity, Certainty, and Power of God’s Way of Salvation

Primary Text: John 14:6 — “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

Supporting Texts: Matthew 19:24; Hebrews 11:6; Galatians 4:4–5; 1 Corinthians 1:21; Acts 4:12; 2 Timothy 3:7

1. INTRODUCTION — The Ease of Disobedience

Beloved, it is easy to be disobedient. Our natural, fallen nature attracts this like a magnet attracts a nail. It is easier — we are told — for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for man to obey God (Matthew 19:24). We are rich in the fullness of self; we imagine we are adequate in our own right. We justify our sins. We condone them. We explain them away. And we acclaim God’s approbation of our behaviour — that it accords with His desires — when it glaringly contradicts every plain sense of the Word, as we wrestle with this and with other of God’s expectations.

It is amazing — but maybe not so amazing — that someone would lie, cheat, defraud, and still claim to be God’s. It is definitely madness, and it is a familiarity with godlessness. So much have we held down the truth that it has become first nature to express sins as graces.

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20).