What’s the ultimate cover-up? It isn’t about an unclaimed laptop or the Wuhan Lab. No, the shocking thing about this cover-up is that the evidence is everywhere and millions are in on it.
Here it is: “If our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord.” (2 Cor 4:3-5)
In order to see, three components are necessary. You must have an object to be seen. You must have a receptor—an eye, a camera, or a mind—to perceive. And you need light to reflect off the image and travel with the information to the observer.
The devil is busy doing everything he can to impede sinners from seeing the Savior. But, Paul adds, Christians can do the devil’s work if we cover up the gospel at our end.
What is the gospel? It’s the breathtaking news that God loves such a world as this, in fact loves me—with all my selfish motives, hurtful attitudes, polluted thoughts, and lengthy rap sheet of wrongs done against His holy law.
But more, the gospel tells of God’s patient love effecting an escape plan to rescue us from our own worst selves. It involved the incalculable sacrifice of Calvary. After two thousand years of ridicule and rejection, the offer still stands.
“ALL we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us ALL.” (Isa 53:6) As the old preachers used to say, “If you go in at the first all, that you’re the sinner, and come out at the second all, that He’s your Savior, you’re saved!”
We say we admire the Wesley brothers, Moody, and Billy Graham. But who still preaches the gospel like they did? I’m not talking about a sermonette for Christianettes followed by a call to be baptized, join the church, and get your offering in on time. Who’s actually preaching the gospel? I’d sincerely love to meet you.
And besides the preachers, who of us—rank-and-file believers—is gossiping the gospel like in New Testament days? We’re all to be involved in the harvest, not just throwing a seed now and again over our shoulder for good luck at the Judgment Seat.
I’m afraid we’ve traded in the power of the gospel for popularity. And because we’re not seeing lives changed through salvation, we’ve gone in for trying to change America by political means. It won’t work.
It’s ok to build a big cross out by the highway, but who is willing to identify daily with Christ’s actual blood-stained one, to take up our own cross, as He said, and follow Him?
Don’t know how to share the gospel? The best method is to just do it. Tell people what Jesus has done for your soul. As one new convert said to me, “If we talk to Jesus every day and talk to people every day, what’s so hard about talking to Jesus about people and to people about Jesus?” Exactly!
Today let’s end the cover-up.
Article by Jabe Nicholson first published in the Commercial Dispatch, Sunday, September 25, 2022