JESUS: WITNESS OF MORALITY

MORAL ARGUMENT FOR JESUS CHRIST

      In every culture, people possess a consciousness of right behavior–a universal consciousness of sin and guilt. A moral law points to a Moral Judge. Man needs forgiveness and cannot escape judgment (Rom. 1:18). Man longs for meaning or purpose and intuitively knows of God’s existence as a perfect Being. Mankind possesses a “moral impulse” or “internal sense of deity” called conscience (Jn. 8:9; Rom. 2:15).

      C. S. Lewis said, “Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way.” Lewis explained, “It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power–it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.”

      How can man be right with God? Philosophies and pagan ethics possess no power to lift the human plight of sin–only the blood of Christ can do that. Man’s yearnings (God-shaped vacuum) cannot be satisfied without Christ Jesus.

      God satisfied His own demands for righteousness by the sacrifice of His Son (2 Cor. 5:17-18). Christ fulfilled the demands of the law. “What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.”