Yea, Hath God Said?

Some of the church’s most troubling people are not the openly rebellious but the selectively devout those who attend faithfully and read Scripture regularly, yet only for what they want, never for what God commands. Their piety is self-referential; they are religious humanists who use the Bible to serve themselves rather than to submit to the Lord. Eve did not reject all of God’s Word only the part that conflicted with her desire and that single act of selective obedience brought ruin to the world. As James reminds us, “whoever keeps the whole law and yet offends in one point is guilty of all” (James 2:10). Obedience and faith are total realities: either God’s will governs us, or our will does. Whether sin is committed once or a hundred times, its essence is always the same rebellion “my will be done,” not God’s.