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Thoughts for the Day: On a Quest for Christ: Practical Proverbs by Kathryn C. Lang Goodreads Author 3. The Language of God: What Did I Do Wrong? From Dreaming to Becoming by Phinehas Kinuthia really liked it 4. The Latter Rain Covenant by D. Light Under the House by Aaron L. And God granted him that which he requested. Be not ye therefore like unto them: Instead, like the Buddhist prayer wheels turning endlessly in the winds of Tibet, Christians were told that zealous daily repetitions of this prayer would bring the hoped-for blessings into their life.

How does one lead a successful and satisfying Christian life? What is the answer to the needs and aspirations of Christians? The Biblical answer is the gospel. The Biblical answer is Christ. If these no longer satisfy us and give us contentment, fulfillment, and peace, then something is radically wrong. Where is the conviction that they have found him of whom Moses and the prophets spoke? Where is the joy that they have found the pearl of great price for which one is willing to give up everything else?

Where is the contentment that Christ is sufficient and in him we have all our needs met for this life and that which is to come? If the person and work of Jesus Christ no longer satisfies our souls and the gospel no longer fills us with the joy of our salvation, then truly we have a serious situation before us. What are we to make of this?

It is certainly troubling.

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Something is radically wrong when professing Christians, instead of rejoicing in Christ, feel unfulfilled and empty. Something is even more wrong when this is a state that churches and pastors are not seemingly dealing with, so that these people are driven to resort to the self-help section of the Christian publishing industry.

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What is the source of the peace, contentment, and joy that should characterize the lives of the redeemed? It is the gospel. It is the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Martin Luther was a professing Christian. He was a Roman Catholic priest and doctor of theology. However, he had neither peace, not contentment, nor joy in his religion. He repaired to the self-help section of the Roman Church. He tried everything from entering a monastery with a severe discipline, to self-flagellation, to pilgrimages, etc.

Nothing he did gave him peace with God. What changed all that was when he received the gospel in his heart. When the great truth of justification by faith alone burst upon his soul, he literally got off his knees on that superstitious and idolatrous staircase in Rome and never looked back. He had the joy of his salvation and the peace with God that passes all understanding. The gospel and the knowledge of Jesus Christ supplied all the needs of his soul. It would have been absurd to think of Luther after that moment as ever having been empty and unfulfilled.

William Farel had similar experiences. He too tried everything that the Church of Rome had to offer. He read the lives of the saints and tried to emulate them. He joined the strictest monastery that he could find.

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He went on pilgrimages. He did everything to be a devout Catholic, a super-Catholic, but he had no peace. Then his heart was opened to understand the true gospel of Jesus Christ and he was forever changed, becoming the Reformer of the French speaking cantons of Switzerland. It is the gospel that transforms people from a state of religious discontent to fulfillment, peace, and joy in Jesus Christ. As he himself stated it, he had whereof to boast according to the flesh.

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He relished in his genealogy as a Hebrew of the Hebrews. He relished in his zeal for the law as a Pharisee of the Pharisees. He relished in his zeal for his faith in his persecution of the rival faith of Christianity. Then he found Christ on that Damascus road and was forever changed. Then all those things in which he had sought religious fulfillment were to him just so much rubbish to be cast out that he might gain Christ and the knowledge of his resurrection.

The question before us is why is this no longer the experience of contemporary evangelicals? Why is the gospel no longer producing the fruit of joy, peace, and contentment that it did in former times? Why are many professing Christians seemingly discontent, empty, and unfulfilled?

Why are the pastors not ministering to these people the comforts of Biblical Christianity, using the Scriptural means of grace to restore them to the joy of their salvation? Why are they seeking for spiritual fulfillment in all the wrong places? I do not know, but the potential answers are extremely disturbing. The first possible answer is that in many evangelical churches the gospel is no longer being preached with power and authority. Expository preaching to build up the saints is rare in evangelical circles.