I took my
daughter to a music store the other day to get her some stuff. I call it stuff
because I am musical illiterate and don’t know a B flat from a flat B. She is gifted and reads music and plays a
variety of instruments. She and the clerk got into a big discussion about
something having to do with a song and they were talking about notes and chords
and keys and things. He looked at me and said, “I take it you are not a
musician?” Apparently he noticed the deer in the headlights look on my face.
Although
they were speaking English it still sounded foreign to me and I think that is
similar to what the Apostle Paul was trying to get across in his letter to the
church at Corinth. He had been there years earlier and stayed for about a year
and a half preaching Christ to them. After he departed some people began to
doubt some of the things he had told them and questions began to arise about
this new doctrine of “saved by grace.” After moving on to Ephesus and hearing
of their issues, he wrote them a letter explaining what he had told them
earlier and telling them the problems with the doctrine were coming from those
who were unbelievers and thereby causing doubt for the believers. He said this
to them; [i]A person who isn’t spiritual doesn’t accept
the teachings of God’s Spirit. He thinks they’re nonsense. He can’t understand
them because a person must be spiritual to evaluate them.
You and I live
in an unbelieving society that has no idea what saved by grace means. The majority
live their lives not thinking about life after death or hoping for the best in
the end. The Gospel is a foreign language to them. Before sharing Scripture
with them tell them how you came to understand it first. They have more than likely heard of Jesus but until they come to know Him His words will make no sense to them.
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