This Evil Age
by Pastor Kevin Sadler
“Is
our grace age, which Paul calls ‘this present evil world [age]’ (Galatians
1:4), worse than the time of Nimrod or what is seen in Romans 1:18-32?”
This
age is evil. Every dispensation or age in man’s history has been evil. Every
age has demonstrated that the heart of mankind “is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked” (Jeremiah 17:9), that people are sinners in need of the
Lord. I don’t think our age is worse than the time of Nimrod or what is seen in
Romans 1:18-32, but rather very similar. Romans 1:18-32 sounds like a
commentary on our times! Mankind doesn’t change. Mankind has been evil, is
evil, and will be evil.
News
of mankind’s wickedness shouldn’t completely shock the believer. Rather, it
should immediately remind us of people’s need for Christ and His salvation, and
our need to be “Redeeming the time, because the days are evil” (Ephesians
5:16). Faith in Christ brings new life and can bring transformation to people’s
lives, so that they might live “in all goodness and righteousness and truth” (Ephesians
5:9).
Paul
calls it “this present evil world” to impress upon us the glory of our
deliverance from it by Christ and His Cross. Galatians 1:4 shows us “Who gave
Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present
evil world.” Knowledge of this hope is to cause us to react with thanksgiving
and praise to our Savior, “To Whom be glory for ever and ever” (Galatians 1:5),
and “that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto
Him which died for them, and rose again” (2 Corinthians 5:15).
Transformed
By Grace -
Kevin
Sadler
Transformed
By Grace #1 - Unity in Christ
Transformed
By Grace #2 - One Body in Christ
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By Grace #3 - The Apostle of Grace
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By Grace #4 - The Gifts of Christ
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