{"id":4490,"date":"2021-02-27T02:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apologeet.nl\/?page_id=4490"},"modified":"2022-06-14T22:56:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:56:33","slug":"eight-reasons-reason-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.apologeet.nl\/en\/faq\/eight-reasons-reason-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Reasons Why People Won&#8217;t Accept The Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Reason 1 &#8211; &#8216;No Due Sense of Spiritual want.&#8217;<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"iframe-container\">\r\n<iframe id=\"lbry-iframe\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/embed\/eight-reasons-why-people-won-t-accept-2\/c355335145a6933ef5e6c6837c2fde6ff81679a4?r=DnVf2JoHc7hnX96if8sUaVa46JNj1WMS\" allowfullscreen frameBorder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>So here we go, this is part one of eight reasons why people won&#8217;t accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The first reason:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&#8216;No due sense of spiritual want.&#8217;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>And I\r\ndo apologize for the noise in the background it started to rain here\r\nand you know how it is with tropical rains&#8230; Well this is not\r\neven a big rain but it already caused me to have some visitors in my\r\nstudio. I&#8217;ll show you the visitors<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>So how about that having some good friends, some goats.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>So Boston said:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"margin-left: 1.25cm\" class=\"textq\"><span class=\"leftq\"><\/span>No due sense of spiritual wants: \r\n<br>\r\n<i>Proverbs 27:7 &#8220;The full soul loatheth the honey-comb.&#8221; <\/i>\r\n<br>\r\nMost men are sick of a Laodicean disease, saying in their practice as they\r\nsaid in their hearts, that \r\n<br>\r\n<i>&#8220;they are rich and increased in goods, and stand in need of nothing,&#8221; (Revelation 3:17) <\/i>\r\n<br>\r\nThey are not mourning under their want of light, of life, and of holiness. They reign as kings with what they have, though, as with King Saul,\r\nGod is departed from them. Hence they do not value that treasure which is hid in the field of the gospel.<span class=\"rightq\"><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Back in 1997 my wife and I started in a lower class neighbourhood because we\r\njust couldn&#8217;t afford a more expensive house but interestingly we had\r\ngreat conversations with many in the neighbourhood. Many, not all,\r\nhad low paying jobs or weren&#8217;t even working at all some couldn&#8217;t work\r\nbecause of illness but others were just too lazy. Especially those\r\nwho didn&#8217;t want to live in that neighbourhood, those who have had a\r\ngood education, but for some reason got stranded with almost nothing,\r\nespecially these people recognized that they were in need. They\r\ndidn&#8217;t feel great about themselves or even about the things they had.\r\nAnd on top of that, often their marriage came to an end and they lost\r\ntheir last sense of self-worth. They looked at that treasure in the\r\nfield and realized they could very well use it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&#8230; I have some visitors in the windows here&#8230; You see that?<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>A few years later we moved house. The old house needed too many repairs so\r\nwe moved. And for Dutch standards we moved to a big house. We had two\r\ncars and received our first child. The new neighbourhood was the\r\nopposite of the old one. Many of our neighbours were very content\r\nwith their lives. And most of them had their own business or were\r\nactually enjoying a very nice pension. Telling my neighbours about\r\nJesus and why they need him too was sometimes like preaching to the\r\nbirds.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>On the internet I found this example of what these people could have said:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"margin-left: 1.25cm\" class=\"textq\"><span class=\"leftq\"><\/span>\r\n&#8220;I do not sense any great hurt or lack or failure in my life. I have a\r\ngood education; I have achieved vocational success; my marriage and\r\nchildren are fine; my personal life is one of morality and integrity.\r\nI have respect for the church, I believe in God, but I do not see any\r\noverwhelming need in my life&mdash;nothing that compels me to cry out to Jesus Christ to save me.&#8221;<span class=\"rightq\"><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>You see, the people who think like this (because normally they will not\r\nsay it aloud) look at the treasure in the field and argue that many\r\npeople could really use that treasure. Oh yes, the treasure is just\r\nwhat some people need. Yes, it looks like a fine treasure but they\r\nare sure they don&#8217;t need it themselves. And you might ask why not,\r\nwell isn&#8217;t that obvious? They believe they have enough treasure of\r\ntheir own. Sometimes they even believe that the Gospel is just a\r\ncrutch for the weak people.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>And strangely enough this attitude can be found worldwide. You\r\nmight say that the Malagasy people belong to those who can value the treasure for what it is. I\r\nmean, Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world. In\r\nour area an adult man earns between 75 euro cents or one euro fifty,\r\n depending on the the work and on the day&#8230; When they have a job that is. I mean most of the time they don&#8217;t even have\r\na job. And they live in little houses with barely space enough for the whole\r\nfamily, let alone any property. Still, even here I come across people who see themselves as spiritual rich.\r\nSo now and then they bring the necessary offers to please the spirits of their ancestors. They\r\nare sure that the ancestors are very much willing to plead their case at the throne of God.\r\nAlso many of them already got baptised in a protestant church when they were still babies, so, like the\r\ngroup of our rich neighbourhood, they say something like <i>&#8220;I have respect for the church. Oh\r\nyes! I even believe in god. I mean I have been baptized after all right?&#8221;<\/i>\r\nSo this false sense of security makes them believe that they are not in need of the treasure even when it is visible in plain sight. But\r\nin reality they are seeing blind. They suffer, like many people in the west, of the Laodicean disease. They\r\nsee themselves as rich in goods, or rich in spiritual feelings and think they don&#8217;t need salvation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>You know I very much love the parables of Jesus. They make you think and when you are done thinking about them they make\r\nyou realise how great the work of Jesus actually is. So let&#8217;s read about the aforementioned treasure, shall we? \r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Let&#8217;s go to Matthew 13:44<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"margin-left: 1.25cm\"><i>&#8220;The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field which a man found and covered up then in his joy he goes and sells all that he\r\nhas and buys that field&#8221;.<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>So let me ask you are you suffering from the  Laodicean disease? Do you feel like king Saul of the Old Testament?\r\nReigning over your goods, over your household. Ruling over your spiritual belongings, and not knowing that God actually departed from you?<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>If so, please read what happened to the people in the bible who suffered the same disease.\r\nYou might hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ and realise that for many this Gospel is like a treasure worth owning.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Don&#8217;t be dumb and think your that your own treasure is bigger and better. Your own treasure will not carry you into everlasting life with God.\r\nIt will not save you. It might make you feel good here and now, but it will not create a private heaven for you where you can go when you die. You\r\nwould be wise to pursue the treasure of the Gospel with all your might, even if that would mean that you have to give up your own hard-earned wealth. Be\r\nlike that man in the parable Jesus used. Don&#8217;t let the treasure of the life of Jesus slip through your fingers!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason 1 &#8211; &#8216;No Due Sense of Spiritual want.&#8217; So here we go, this is part one of eight reasons why people won&#8217;t accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ! The first reason: &#8216;No due sense of spiritual want.&#8217; And I do apologize for the noise in the background it started to rain here and you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4493,"parent":1086,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[225,308],"tags":[260,257,258,259,242,239],"folder":[98],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apologeet.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apologeet.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apologeet.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apologeet.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apologeet.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apologeet.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4490\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apologeet.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apologeet.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apologeet.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apologeet.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apologeet.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apologeet.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}