For a few weeks we have been discussing what a biblical worldview looks like. that might sound intimidating to some people but really all that means is how we process life. Do we see life through the lens of Scripture as God has revealed that to us, or do we see life through the lens of the world around us, our own ideas, educational system, the philosophies of the world? Everybody has a worldview. Everybody sees the world through some lens and those who have a biblical worldview have chosen to see the world through the only true lens which is God’s Word. As we think about that and review a bit, biblical worldview begins with God and the truth that He does exist. “In the beginning was God.” He created all things, and He created humanity. So, as we think about that wonderful creation of ourselves, we know that Scripture tells us that we are made in the very image of God and that means that we were put on earth to represent God. We are made very special and unique among all of God’s creation. We were created originally without sin. There was no sinfulness in the original human beings Adam and Eve. Of course, we know all that changed when Adam and Eve chose to sin. Then sin entered into the world and thus began the pollution and corrupting process that all of us deal with every day in our own lives and in our world system. With that in mind, we have a great problem because those who were created to reflect the image of God and to represent God on earth to give Him glory can no longer do so because of their sinful condition.
We probably have looked at Ephesians 2:1-3 before. It says, “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.” The Scriptures paint a very dismal picture of our spiritual condition. We are hopelessly lost and dead in sin and the question might arise: What can we do about that? The answer in Scripture according to a biblical worldview is that we can do absolutely nothing! There is not a thing we can do to change our spiritual condition and bring ourselves into a position where we are right with God. That would be determined by God Himself. God had to do something otherwise we would remain in our sinfulness.
So, Ephesians 2:4-6 simply says, “But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” So, we find that God did something and that something was to send His beloved Son to earth to die for us and all because of His grace and His mercy.
Ephesians 2:7 goes on to say this, “so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.” Often, we kind of skip this verse. One of the reasons the Lord reaches out to save us is that in the ages to come, that is throughout all of eternity, His grace might be put on display. That display of grace is found primarily in what He has done for us through Jesus Christ by reaching out in His kindness and mercy toward us . . .
