Your Bible Lesson For The Day
What Doesn't Your Natural Knowledge Of God Tell You?
What you don’t know can hurt you. What you don’t know from your natural knowledge of God can, not only hurt you, but eternally destroy you! What doesn’t nature and your conscience tell you?
From nature and your conscience you can know there is a God. The same is true for all the people of the world. But look around you. What do the peoples of the world worship? Psalm 96:5 tells us. “All the gods of the peoples are idols, but the Lord made the heavens.” All the gods of the people of the world are idols! They worship idols but not the Lord. Their natural knowledge gained from nature and their conscience did not tell them who the true God is – the Lord who made the heavens and the earth! Likewise, your natural knowledge does not tell you who the true God is. And what you don’t know, who the true God is, can hurt you! It can eternally destroy you.
But that is not all your natural knowledge fails to tell you, just as it did not tell the jailer in Philippi at the time of the apostle Paul. Acts 16:25-31 tells us that after the Lord caused an earthquake in response to Paul’s and his co-worker Silas’ praying and singing hymns of praise while being in prison, the jailer ran in terrified, brought them out and asked, “Sirs! What must I do to be saved?” From nature and his conscience he had a natural knowledge of God, just like you do. But what didn’t he know? What didn’t his natural knowledge tell him? It didn’t tell him how to be saved! And what he didn’t know not only could have hurt him but could have eternally destroyed him. The same is true for you.
The jailer needed an additional source of information to tell him what he didn’t know. He needed the apostle Paul and Silas to tell him the Lord is God and to believe in Jesus Christ to be saved. You also need an additional source of information to tell you who God is and how to be saved – the Bible! It tells you the Lord is God and to believe in Jesus Christ.
From nature and your conscience you can know there is a God. The same is true for all the people of the world. But look around you. What do the peoples of the world worship? Psalm 96:5 tells us. “All the gods of the peoples are idols, but the Lord made the heavens.” All the gods of the people of the world are idols! They worship idols but not the Lord. Their natural knowledge gained from nature and their conscience did not tell them who the true God is – the Lord who made the heavens and the earth! Likewise, your natural knowledge does not tell you who the true God is. And what you don’t know, who the true God is, can hurt you! It can eternally destroy you.
But that is not all your natural knowledge fails to tell you, just as it did not tell the jailer in Philippi at the time of the apostle Paul. Acts 16:25-31 tells us that after the Lord caused an earthquake in response to Paul’s and his co-worker Silas’ praying and singing hymns of praise while being in prison, the jailer ran in terrified, brought them out and asked, “Sirs! What must I do to be saved?” From nature and his conscience he had a natural knowledge of God, just like you do. But what didn’t he know? What didn’t his natural knowledge tell him? It didn’t tell him how to be saved! And what he didn’t know not only could have hurt him but could have eternally destroyed him. The same is true for you.
The jailer needed an additional source of information to tell him what he didn’t know. He needed the apostle Paul and Silas to tell him the Lord is God and to believe in Jesus Christ to be saved. You also need an additional source of information to tell you who God is and how to be saved – the Bible! It tells you the Lord is God and to believe in Jesus Christ.