And by the way, I need to say this as an aside, we live in a culture that is overwhelmed with pseudo-supernaturalism. We live in a culture that is engulfed in phony stories about the supernatural, fake miracles, fake healings, fake resurrections. They are basically propagated as if they were realities all the time within the framework of “the church.” And all of that nonsense tends to diminish the reality of this kind of real miracle. Then you can add this. We live in a culture that is relentless barraged with entertainment that elevates, escalates, and saturates with fantasy, unreal things. Unreal things are normalized in our culture, and I’m sure there are many people who don’t know the difference between fantasy and reality. The line gets rubbed out. Movies and television are just jam packed with the unreal offered as if it’s reality, the fantasy world. And in a culture that is engulfed in those kinds of pseudo-supernatural realities, it’s hard for people to see the resurrection of a man 4 days dead who walks out of his grave in a small village in Judea 2,000 years ago as anything that matters. There were no special effects. How do you compare that with Harry Potter, flying witches, angels, vampires, transformers, aliens who constantly defy natural law, time travelers, people who morph into some other entity, displaying supernatural powers? So what’s the big deal about a resurrection in a village in Israel 2,000 years ago? Again, this is Satan’s successful effort at confusing people about the miraculous and confusing them about reality, and Satan is very adept at this. By the way, as a footnote, Jesus told stories. He made up stories. They’re called parables. He invented them. Not one parable Jesus ever created is a fantasy. It has no components of fantasy. — John MacArthur gty.org/library/sermon…
@TerriGreenUSA So many tests for the faithful. So many false claims and interpretations. Gotta be in the Word or perish. When the Son of man comes will He find faith on the earth?
@TerriGreenUSA Everything spot on. The normalizing that needs to be examined through the lens of Scripture will be the downfall of society. The more people normalize all the things that God provides a means of addressing, the worse people are getting. Perhaps it’s time to change course!
@TerriGreenUSA Thank you Terri for sharing good content.
@TerriGreenUSA John McArthur is such a treasure. Truly a man of GOD.
@TerriGreenUSA Chapter & verse that shows a pastor on a stage with a podium + sing songs on Sunday = worship of God.