PASTOR'S CORNER

  Rom 9:6-33     R C Sproul once joked with his church family with this question. “What am I doing here? Why do I bother to expound the Word of God to people who can’t remember the sermon three weeks later?”  He goes on to say in his commentary, “This didn’t bother him because my job is to open the Scriptures and expound them as carefully, accurately, and persuasively as I know how.  The efficacy of that preaching, the power of the exposition, never lies with me. I am not responsible for the effect that the Word of God has upon the hearer. God takes His Word and applies it to people.”  This doesn’t bother R C Sproul, as it doesn’t bother me either. Why? “Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares

  Matt 10:15; Gen 19:1-29 The Bible says that God was sorry He created man. “The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them." Gen 6:5-7.  So what did God do? He judged man and sent a worldwide flood recorded in Book of Genesis, sparing only eight lives . Gen 6, 7 & 8.  With this judgment God promises never to flood the whole earth again with a covenant that He made with Noah. Gen 8:20-22.  Now! You would think that image-bearers of God, would take this warning as a way of change and worship towards Almighty God.    You would be wrong!  Time went on and Noah’s sons had children, so on and so on, the