Reasoning with God

From the Pastor: Dr. M. J. Seymour, Sr.

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” (Isaiah 1:18) “It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.” (John 6:45)

In Isaiah 1:18 the word “reason” out of the Hebrew means, “to instruct, to show, to correct, to prove, to convince.” Jesus said when the Holy Spirit would come “he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.” (John 16:8) The word “reprove” means, to convince or to convict. God in the Old Testament and in the New Testament is balanced and consistent in the way that He brings sinners through quickening grace unto salvation. One will not and cannot be brought unto a reconciling with God until he has convincingly learned that he is “dead in trespasses and sins,” and the only instrument of cleansing is faith in the blood of the Lamb of God. In other words, if one is not taught and convinced by God of his lost, total spiritually condemned state, he will never believe that the only hope is faith in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Religion does not reason together with God; it reasons only with the doctrines of men and devils. This is why religion has never brought salvation to a single soul. The masses flock to the doctrines that best sooth their consciences, but God never seeks to sooth the consciences of men. When one comes to reason with God, God does all the instructing and every mouth is sealed having been persuaded of their ungodliness by the omniscience of God. God leaves no doubt in the hearer’s mind of his sinfulness and his inability to save himself. Religion would have one to believe he can save himself, or at least have a part in the salvation process. This is evidence that religion has not yet come to reason together with God.

Reason would dictate that salvation unto eternal life is all of God by grace alone and purchased by the sacrificial blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. To seek heaven’s salvation through some other means is to refuse to reason with God. It is to play the part of an unreasonable fool. If you would have this great salvation, you must come learning from the Father, then you will rightly come to Jesus.