The Gift Nobody Wants

Message on Matthew 7:13 and Mark 1:14 by Paul Washer

An illustration I haven’t given in a long time, but I just love to give is just so simple. Say I show up late here today and the pastor is all mad at me because I show up late and so, pastor, don’t be mad at me. I walk in. I am like this and it is about as good as I get. And he says, “What happened?”

I said, “Well, I was changing the tire on my car and the lug nut went out in the middle of the road and I wasn’t thinking and I walked out there and I picked it up and when I picked it up there was a logging truck weighing 30 tons going 120 miles an hour and it is like five feet in front of me and I couldn’t move and it ran me over so that is why I am late.”

He is going to go, “There are only two possibilities, logically.” I am sure he studied classical logic. There are only two possibilities. One is I am absolutely insane or I am a liar.

And when he says, “You are either insane or a liar, now I am going to sit here and debate on which it is,” I am going to say, “Why are you saying I am either insane or a liar. Why don’t you believe me?”

And he says, “Because it is absolutely against nature. It is an impossibility to have an encounter with a logging truck going 120 miles an hour that weighs 30 tons and not somehow be changed by that encounter.

Now how can you say you have had an encounter with God and not been changed along with millions of other Americans? They have had an encounter with God, but they have not been changed.

So God now has less power than a logging truck.

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