Back to the Bible Canada with Dr. John Neufeld - The Heart of the Gospel: The Truths About God Everyone Knows
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Back to the Bible Canada with Dr. John Neufeld - The Heart of the Gospel: The Truths About God Everyone Knows

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 22, 202624 min
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  • Religion

What about people who have never heard of God? From Romans 1:19–23, Dr. John Neufeld sets out six truths creation makes plain to everyone: God exists, He is the Creator, we owe Him our existence and our gratitude, we have been ungrateful, and we need mercy. Natural theology cannot save us; it shows we are guilty suppressors of truth. Only a Saviour can fix this situation. The Heart of the Gospel: This 25-message series on Romans 1–4 presents us with Christianity 101. It is the basics of our faith, teaching us how we can know for certain that sins are forgi...

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Hi, this is Ben Lowell and this is Back to the Bible Canada with Dr. John Neufeld. Well, today we continue our series, The Heart of the Gospel, with a message titled, The Truths About God Everyone Knows. So turn in your Bibles to Romans chapter 1, 19-23, as we join Dr. Neufeld now.

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writing Roman Christians and explaining the basics of the gospel, Paul already sensed our objections. And that's because we know where he's going. He's going to, as some Bible teachers put it, make sin appear exceedingly sinful and make our condition seem so bleak and so hopeless that we're gonna have no other

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alternative but to fly to the cross. But here's the objection and Paul already knows we're gonna have this objection. What about those who have never heard? And what about those who are never raised with a sense of sin, or of a righteous God, or of the graciousness of a God who had sent his Son on the cross to die for our sins?

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