In his famous book, The Bondage of the Will, Luther makes this comment,

mere human reason can never comprehend how God is good and merciful,

and therefore you make to yourself a God of your own fancy who hardens nobody, condemns

nobody, and pities everybody.

That's an interesting statement that Luther makes there.

The God that we want to believe in is a God who not only is sometimes merciful,

but who is always merciful and who never condemns anybody and never hardens anybody.

You and I are made in the image of God, but it does seem that due to our fallenness,

sinful man seeks to create a God in his own image, a God of our own fancy to quote Martin Luther.

You're listening to the Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind as we conclude a week-long

study of some of the hard sayings of the Bible.

Our task is not to create an idle, a version of God that we like or prefer, but instead

to submit to what the one true God has revealed about himself

in scripture.

And that's one reason why we must be very careful when we come to hard sayings in the pages of scripture, handling and interpreting

them with care.

Throughout his ministry, Arce sprawl didn't shy away from these hard sayings, and in fact he recorded four teaching series covering the hard sayings of the

prophets of Jesus of the Apostles and the Bible. Well today is the last day to

request access to these four series when you give a donation of

any amount at renewing your mind.org.

When you do, we'll send you Dr. Sproll's companion hardcover book outlining and explaining these hard sayings.

Don't forget that this offer also ends at midnight.

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