The importance of a
Thankful soul in life
You cannot suppress the being of God
Or Reject the gospel of Jesus Christ
Without there being severe results in your thinking…and
in your life
but they became futile in their speculations,
Greek conjunction alla intro. a strong contrast
Instead of honoring Him by believing,
Instead of giving thanks
They became futile in their speculations
There are always repercussions when you suppress God, or Jesus Christ, out of your life, out of your thinking
1st result:
they became futile in their speculations
Aorist, Passive, Indicative mataiow vain, to make vain or worthless, to cancel out, to be destitute of real wisdom, to be futile
Aorist: stating a fact, this is what happens when a person suppresses the being of God or Jesus Christ.
Passive voice—subject receives the action of verb…this is what happens throughout all history, when men suppress the being of God.
There is no escaping this, yet thinking that he can is just more of the deceitful futile thinking of man, that there will be no damaging results of denying God in my life, even denying His existence.
But historical fact bears differently
You cannot push God out of your life, out of your thinking without this effecting your soul, & thinking.
Futile/worthles in their speculations
here is where we live, here is why we care about keeping our physical hearts pumping
Dialogismos to reason, thoughts, here is where we do our thinking, however little or to what degree you think, this is where we reason things out.
1. you start out – there is no God, no one supreme being
That man is not designed & created by God
2. So, now you start your thinking process, on
how man did get here.
3. Your whole view of man changes with whatever your Speculation is on how man got here.
This is why you can have
Islamic thinking,
Secular Humanism,
Marxism/Leninism;
Cosmic Humanism &
Post Modernism.
5 leading Worldviews.
Acc. Dr. David Noebel of Summit
Ministries
They became futile, vain in their thinking
and their foolish heart was darkened
This is where the process of suppressing God, denying Jesus Christ ends!
A darken heart
And their foolish heart
asunetos privative or neg. a + sunetos sagacious; to reason, understand, intelligent
Non-sagacious heart
not your physical heart, but the real you, soul! The center of your being
Non-sagacious heart
Sagacious ‘keen & farsighted penetration & judgment & discernment, acute discernment”
Without insight or understanding
When you suppress God, & do not believe in Him, people, you lose the ability to think in the realm of reality! You are without insight, you are with out understanding --- of reality
and their foolish heart
this is one who starts his thinking on the premise that there is no God or that Jesus Christ is not the Son of God, savior of mankind.
Psa. 53:1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God," suppressing what he knows to be true They are corrupt, in their thinking and have committed abominable injustice; all their rationalizations, & conclusions are abominable, evil. There is no one who does good.
Isa. 32:6 For a fool speaks nonsense, And his heart inclines toward wickedness, To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the LORD, To keep the hungry person unsatisfied And to withhold drink from the thirsty.
and their foolish heart was darkened.
Skotizw –darkness To darken, deprive of light.
Aorist tense: Reality of trying to think outside of God
Passive voice: Once again you receive this darkness by shutting God out;
Indicative mood: This is reality!
When you eclipse the light of God, you are in darkness
1 Jn. 2:11 But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him JC as God, nor did they give thanks to Him, but instead, (as result of rejecting Him) they received futile or worthless thinking and their foolish hearts received darkness –so they could not see truth.
The end result of man without God
22. Professing to be wise they become fools
22. Professing to be wise they become fools
1st they know God exist
2 then they suppress the existence of God
3. they come up with futile speculations
4. they claim to be wise
5. they become fools
Professing to be wise
faskw to affirm, to assert, to claim,
Result of thinking without God…delusional
Present: this delusion is found in every person who starts his/her thinking w/o God, w/o Jesus Christ
They make their speculations, their reasoning & claim they are right
People make lots of claims in life, & just because we claim something, does not make it so…just because someone claims something does not mean what they are claiming is true
James: claim to be in Faith & are not
1 John claimed to be in love & were not
1 John claimed not to sin but anger & hate
toward others
John claim to be in light but in darkness
John 14 claim to pray in His name but are not
just because you claim to be praying in His Name does not mean you are praying in His name!
Professing to be wise sofos
Here is delusion of life without God
1. The ability to apply with skill what one knows
implies deep understanding, or discernment & sound judgment.
So first, these wise people, deny God! As creator…then they deny Jesus as the Christ.
then they gather facts & over the years more & more facts, with microscopes—telescopes, colliders etc.
then they skillfully analyses & come up with their skillful deductions & claim to be wise with their answers as to how we got here & where we are going
2. The Biblical concept of wisdom is theocentric rather than anthropocentric.
That is wisdom is God-centered or God based, rather than man centered or man based. This is wisdom…begins all understanding with God.
Job 28:28
Psa. 111:10
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Romans 1:22
Professing, claiming to be wise
They became fools mwrainw moraino Eng. moron
to cause to lose its taste or the purpose for which it exist; it means to lacking in ability to make judgment or be prudent.
Aor. Is used to state an historical fact, that as one tries to explain all things apart from God, they become dull, & lacking in ability to make sound judgments
Passive: Subject receives action of verb—these people who deny God & then try to explain things apart from God, receive being fools, receive inability to make sound judgments about creation, or origins or even problems of man.
Problems of man are spiritual!
Not economical, not racial but spiritual, yet if one denies the existence of the one true God, or denies Jesus Christ as their savior this person receives becoming fools, in their thinking.
Indicative mood: mood of reality: though they would deny it, this is reality.