Blind men care little for color, deaf men care little for music, and atheists care very little for the Crucified and Living Creator. Atheists magnify man and minimize God. But let God be true, and every atheist a liar. Human wisdom can never find out God. Atheism is ‘human wisdom’ at its worst, and it sets itself up against God. Atheists don’t want to be taught, for they know of themselves; they are a rival to THE ONLY WISE GOD. They pretend to be superior to God, they are not willing to learn of Christ, but would trust in themselves. God hides His true wisdom from the wise and prudent. The atheist rejects God, therefore God gives the atheist over to a spiritual blindness. Christ thanked the Father that He does this to careless and thoughtless atheists (See Matthew 11:25-27). Jesus rejoiced over the fact that the wise and prudent (clever smart alecks) couldn’t understand who He was, but that the publicans, harlots, commercial fisherman, and uneducated peasants could. God doesn’t ever reveal Himself to any conceited smart aleck that comes to Him with self-conceited prejudice.
The atheist blinds himself with his own 'human wisdom' and becomes a fool. If atheists are not converted, don’t get upset about it, it is not likely they will be. There is nothing more foolish than when a creature does not acknowledge his Creator. The atheist sets himself up in independence of God, in fact, making himself his own God. God is not everyone’s Father and no one can know the Father unless Christ Himself REVEALS the Father to them. Christ knows the Father and no one else knows Him, except the Son of God. There is no other Person who can approach unto God. Christ must be your Savior, or you will have no Savior at all. Salvation is not in any other man (Acts 4:12), and if you will not have Christ, neither can you have salvation.Without faith in Christ it is IMPOSSIBLE to please the Father.
The atheist thinks the Gospel is for the weak-minded, the credulous, and the superstitious.They speak blasphemy against the things of God that they cannot understand. What they do not want to be true, they try to prove not to be true. Atheism and evolution are types of mental morphine that the Christ-rejecter takes to numb his conscience and common sense. They turn up the noise of their caviling to drown out the ‘still small voice’ that is knocking and troubling them. The atheist thinks the gospel is beneath their consideration, because it does not flatter their pride, and because they are so occupied with their own human wisdom that they have no time for the things of God. Human learning can never reveal ‘divine truth’ to the lost soul, only the grace of God and the work of the Holy Ghost can do that. You must be willing to be a nothing and a nobody, and no atheist will ever do that of himself.
The Gospel of Christ says that sinners are guilty and lost, because of our sins against the Almighty, the Gospel offers free and full pardon through a Crucified Savior’s sinless blood. The Holy Ghost woos and warns the sinner to turn from Sin and Self-Righteousness and take the bleeding Savior. The laboring and heavy laden sinner lays hold on Christ by faith, and free eternal life is granted to him instantly, the poor sinner is made a new creature by the power of God without human works being involved.
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are REVEALED belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law (Deut 29:29). Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet REVEALED unto him. And the Lord appeared again in Shiloh: for the Lord REVEALED Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord (I Sam 3:7,21). Who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord REVEALED (Isaiah 53:1)? Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be REVEALED (Isaiah 56:1). Then was the secret REVEALED unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven (Daniel 2:19). Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but He REVEALETH His secret unto His servants the prophets (Amos 3:7).
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast REVEALED them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered unto Me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will REVEAL Him (Matthew 11:25-27). And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not REVEALED it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven (Matthew 16:17). And it was REVEALED unto Simeon by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ (Luke 2:26). (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be REVEALED (Luke 2:35). In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast REVEALED them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will REVEAL Him (Luke 10:21:22).
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God REVEALED from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is REVEALED from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness (Romans 1:16-18). But God hath REVEALED them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God (I Cor 2:10).
