Liberating Planet Earth

The Liberation of the Individual 63
universal brotherhood of man. Such a brotherhood is a brotherhood
of condemnation. It is mandatory ethically that each person escape
from this brotherhood. It is adopted sonship, not created sonship,
that alone offers eternal life and eternal hope.
Libmation Inward
Christians preach the gospel to the lost. We assume that there
is a point of contact between the saved and the lost, If there weren’t,
how could saved and lost communicate? There is such a point of
contact: the image of God in all men. But the unbeliever suppresses
this truth.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress [hold
back] the truth in unrighteousness (Remans 1:18).
This is active ignorance. Unregenerate people suppress the
testimony of the creation, including the testimony of their own
being, to God and God’s wrath.
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are
perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God (1
Corinthians 1:18).
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of
God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual
judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no one. For ‘lVho has
known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we
have the mind of Chrkt (1 Corinthians 2:14-16).
Then how can the unregenerate man receive the things of the
Spirit? How can he be set free? By the grace of God. This is the
only way he can be set free. He must be ~“uen the mind of Christ.
The righteousness of Christ is imputed to him, not for any work
that he does, but simply by God’s grace.
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not
of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should
boast (Ephesians 2:8-9).