Men in Love with Sin Do Not Receive Christ

                                By A. W. Tozer
 

                Their sentence is based on this fact: that the Light from
                heaven came into the world, but they loved the darkness
                more than the Light, for their deeds were evil.  They hated
                the heavenly Light because they wanted to sin in the darkness. They stayed away from that Light for fear their sins would be exposed and they would be punished.  But those doing right
come gladly to the Light to let everyone see that they are
doing what God wants them to."            ---John 3:19,20,21

                  I do not believe anyone has ever rejected Jesus Christ
              on philosophical grounds.  Israel did not reject the Lord
              because of philosophical reasons. Israel's rejection was
              for moral reasons.

                 The man who continues in his rejection of Christ has
              a pet sin somewhere - he’s in love with iniquity.  He
              rejects Jesus on moral grounds, and then hides behind
              false philosophy - philosophical grounds.

                  I believe that every one of those who are having
              "intellectual difficulties" is hiding because he is morally
              reprobate.  When we fall in love with our sin, we can
              imagine and manufacture 10,000 syllogisms to keep us
              away from the cross.

                  A blind man can argue that there is no sunshine, but
              when he gets his sight, the sunshine floods in!

                  How wonderful it is that when a person gives up his
              sin and puts his pride under his feet and looks at the
              light, the whole body and mind are flooded with light.  I
              have talked with people who have come out of rational-
              ism and atheism and all the rest - and they smile at you
              with clear eyes and say, "Oh, it is wonderful now; the
              light has flooded in."

                  Jesus said, "For everyone that doeth evil hateth the
              light, neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should
              be reproved."   This is the condemnation - that light is
              come into the world, and men love darkness rather
              than light, because their deeds are evil.

                  The natural man has a perverse antipathy to the light
              because it interferes with his iniquity!
              Yours in Christ,
              Paul N. F.