In recent weeks I have been reading a book entitled “We Cannot Be Silent” by R. Albert Mohler, Jr. On the back cover of the book is the following recommendation by Robert P. George: “Albert Mohler is one of our nation’s most brilliant and courageous Evangelical Christian thinkers. In We Cannot Be Silent, he explains to Bible-believing Christians of all traditions why it is our duty to speak out in defense of biblical and natural-law principles of sexual morality and marriage. To bear witness to Christ and the gospel in contemporary culture is to make oneself a ‘sign of contradiction’ to those powerful forces who equate ‘progress’ and ‘social justice’ with sexual license and what Pope Francis calls ‘gender ideology.’ And that is what we, as Christians, must do – no matter the cost to ourselves. With the future of the family – and indeed, the very dignity of the human person – at stake, silence is not an option.”
You might wonder who Robert P. George is. When this book was published in 2015, he was a professor at Princeton University. According to the following website – https://politics.princeton.edu/people/robert-p-george he is currently on leave from Princeton University.
When we read or hear a recommendation from someone, we have a choice to make: accept it as true or reject it. In this case, I had no hesitation to accept it as true. When we talk to people about the Lord Jesus Christ, we can recommend that they read the Bible in order to learn what it says about mankind, sin, redemption, and so much more.
In “We Cannot Be Silent” Albert Mohler writes: “The ultimate authority for our understanding of reality is the Bible, which is nothing less than the very Word of God. Our knowledge on anything of importance regarding essential questions of life is grounded in the reality that the one true and living God is not only the God who is but also the God who speaks.
As evangelical theologian Carl F. H. Henry explained so beautifully, God loves us so much that He forfeits His own personal privacy that His creatures might know Him. For this reason, evangelical Christians turn to Scripture by instinct. Going back to the Reformation itself, we live by the principle of Sola Scriptura, affirming that Scripture and Scripture alone is our final authority. The reason for this is straightforward. We believe that when Scripture speaks, God speaks. This means that to obey the Scriptures is to obey God and to disobey the Scriptures is to disobey God. Evangelicals can never look at Scripture as just the communication of mere information. The Bible summons us to be obedient and humbly receive what God has revealed to us in His Word.”
If you live in southern Quebec or northern New York, you can listen to excellent Bible teaching on WCHP – 760 AM. Driving into Montreal this week, Karen and I listened to Pastor Charles Swindoll between 8:30 am and 9 am. You can listen to “Insight for Living” and “La Voix de l’Ēvangile” on Mondays at 3 pm by going online at: www.wchp.com.
Scripture for the weekend: “Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, ‘If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.’” John 8:31-32 (NKJV)
Thought for the weekend: “For me, opening up God’s Word is like a banquet feast … nourishment for my soul.” Charles Swindoll
Steve