A Clear Gospel Message - Part 3 — Zac Poonen

Jesus Christ as the Exclusive Way to God

None of us have seen God at any time. So our opinion is worth nothing. I mean, it's like if you've never seen an elephant. Never seen a picture of an elephant. Never seen an elephant. How will you know what an elephant looks like?

Supposing you try to draw a picture of an animal you've never seen or even a picture. You can't draw a picture of that. It'll be wrong. You may think you know, I may think I know but both of us will be wrong.

So I say there's no use. Your opinion in my opinion are both worthless. But Jesus Christ came from heaven his opinion is worth more and You are telling me to Say that Jesus is the same as all other religions and gods.

Hang on. You are asking me to call Jesus Christ a liar and a deceiver. You want me to do that? You're telling me to call Jesus Christ a liar and a deceiver. You know, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not asking you to.

I'm asking you to respect him and respect other gods. I say hang on. Jesus said in John 14 verse 6. I am the way. No one comes to the father, but through me. Is that right or wrong? If it's right, then he's the only way if it's wrong.

Either he was a liar or he was a deceiver or deceived. So what do you want me to call him? You want me to call him a liar? You want me to say Jesus Christ is a liar. Jesus Christ a deceiver. Or Jesus Christ was deceived.

Which of the three do you want me to say? You know, I don't want you to say anything and the only other alternative is he spoke the truth. Which is I am the way the truth and life. No one no one no one no one no one comes to the father, but through me.

I Can't go to God except through Jesus Christ. And I'll explain to you why Truth is always very narrow-minded. Many people say why can't you be broad-minded and nowadays in the world? Everybody likes to be broad-minded.

Truth Is Absolute, Not Broad-Minded

Don't get into a controversy with anybody. Accept everything. I say 2 plus 2 is 4. Somebody says it's no it's 3. Somebody says no 2 plus 2 is 5. Let's accept everybody or at let's at least accept those who are pretty close to us like somebody who says 2 plus 2 is 3 .9.

Somebody says 4 .1. They are much closer. See, I'm sorry. I'll get all my calculations wrong. If I say 2 plus 2 is 3 .9. Or even 4 .1 or even 4 .0001. Truth is absolute. 2 plus 2 is 4. I say you also follow that I would say to such a person your mathematics is pretty ruthlessly narrow-minded.

You don't give any option to another fellow to have a different view so don't call me narrow-minded. You're narrow-minded, too. What if I say the Earth goes around the Sun. No, no, let's accept the other fellow who says the Sun goes around the earth.

Also, I mean, let's be broad-minded about these things. I Say you can't be broad-minded everything all your physics calculations will go wrong. If you accept this fellow says the Sun goes around the earth that fellow says the earth goes around the Sun and somebody else says something else.

Truth is absolute whether in the realm of astronomy or mathematics chemistry. H2 plus O is water. It's not salt. No, let's accept the fellow who says it's salt. I'm sorry. I can't accept it. Two parts of hydrogen plus one part of oxygen is water.

It's not salt. You see how truth is absolute in every area only when it comes to faith. They say no, no, let's be broad-minded. Broad-minded people are in error in mathematics physics chemistry astronomy and religion.

But people are willing to be very narrow-minded in all those other areas and don't recognize that truth is narrow-minded here, too. Jesus Christ that I'm the way no one comes to the father, but by me.

So I say I'm not you're not arguing with me when I say that you're arguing with Jesus. So Jesus was either a liar or he was a madman or he was a deceiver or he was deceived or He is God. You can have your choice.

But don't say he was a good man. How can he be a good man if he told such a lie like this? No, don't say he's a prophet. I Jesus was a very good man. Are you excited when somebody says that it's like somebody saying your father is a very nice dog.

What do you mean? My father is a very nice. No, he's not a bad dog. He's a nice dog. That's exactly the same when you say Jesus was a nice man. He was a good prophet. No He was Almighty God. My father is no dog and Jesus Christ is no ordinary man or prophet so I mentioned that because.

The Deity and Incarnation of Jesus Christ

Sometimes Christians are excited when somebody says Jesus was a good man. No. He was God came in human form. And you need to understand why it was necessary. Some of these things are very simple, but if you understand it'll help you.

The Christian faith teaches that all human beings are sinners. If you come to God if you come to Jesus as a Christian you sin cannot be forgiven. But Jesus did not die for Christians he died for sinners.

So the only person who can be forgiven is one who comes to Jesus and says I'm a sinner. Anybody sitting here you come to Jesus saying I'm a Christian. Jesus say I didn't die for Christians. You can't come to Jesus as a Hindu Muslim Christian Buddhist atheist nothing.

He said I came to the world to die for sinners. You come as a sinner you can be forgiven. You come as a Christian you will live and die in your sins and go to hell. Because that's the punishment that's the first thing I want to say and it's very easy for us to know that we are sinners.

Conscience as God's Gift and Moral Guide

Your conscience. God's given you a conscience. Everybody's got a conscience. In particularly children they're very sensitive conscience. As you grow up you can kill that conscience kill that conscience with all types of Doing wrong things and when your conscience tells you something you say shut up.

I'm not gonna listen to you. I'm gonna listen to you. Ultimately our conscience is dead. It may stop speaking to you. But that doesn't mean you become holy. No. See how little children. If you want to go to a home.

And find out the truth about something who should you ask? Ask the three-year-old. He cannot tell a lie. You ask the grown-up people with a straight face. They'll tell you a lie. But the three-year-old.

Tell you the truth. But that three-year-old you wait another 15 years. It has become a perfect liar. Just like you and me. Because we kill our conscience. We are all born with a very sensitive conscience.

Have you seen the feet of a little baby. So soft and tender. But look at your feet now. That's what happens to our conscience also hard. The feet of a baby one small pin it'll feel it our feet. Some people so hard even a drawing pin won't hurt them.

That's what happens to our conscience. But our conscience is what God's way of saying you're doing something wrong. You can kill it, and that's why I tell you. The most useful gift God's given you like your conscience.

Jesus called it the eye the eye of the heart is the conscience. Keep it carefully. Otherwise you won't be able to see you live in darkness like a blind man. The more you kill your conscience. It's like poking your eyes poke you keep on poking it poking it poking it.

One day you can't see anything. But your conscience tells you you're a sinner. And it doesn't matter when you look at a baby the baby even more you go to see all the babies in a hospital. Can you tell me which one is Hindu which one is Muslim?

Which one is Christian? No, they're all the same. They're all sinners. You go and see those same babies playing grown-up and playing in a kindergarten play ground. Who's the Christian who's?