Summary: These things He [Jesus] said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum. Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, “This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?” (John 6:59-60) Every person is either a child of God or a child of Satan (1 John 3:10). All those who don’t put their faith in Christ will suffer God’s wrath (John 3:36). Those who unrepentantly violate God’s moral laws will be sentenced to hell (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). Statements like these are the “hard truths” of Scripture. In other words, they are hard for unbelievers—and even some believers—to accept because they seem so harsh, so opposite our human reasoning, so contrary to a “God of love.” But alas, the Bible clearly teaches these truths, and we’d better know how to handle them. Declare them in the wrong tone or with the wrong motive, and the hard truths can become a harsh turnoff. But proclaim them the right way, and hearers may be led to repentance and faith. This weekend on The Christian Worldview, we’ll discuss how to handle some of the hard truths of Scripture, and find out why it’s important to not ignore them, but rather to declare them to a world that desperately needs to hear them.
