090. Limitations, Man's
090. Limitations, Man’s
90 MAN’S LIMITATIONS
INTRODUCTION It is well for man to know his limitations. It helps to keep him humble. It helps him to plan more wisely his life both for time and eternity. There are many things which man can not know or do; every power of man has its limitations. No man so brainy, so industrious, so consecrated, but that God has written "limited " after his name and work.
I. THINGS MAN CANNOT KNOW 1. How old the world is.
2. How much longer it will stand.
3. When Jesus will come.
4. When death will come to us.
5. Whether we will have another opportunity to accept Christ.
6. The unrevealed things. (Deuteronomy 29:29.) II. THINGS MAN CANNOT DO 1. Some are limited.
(a) By finance (b) By broken health. (c) Feeble constitution. (d) Heredity.
2. Cannot repent for our friends.
3. Cannot be baptized for another. (1 Corinthians 15:29.) 4. Cannot forgive for another.
5. Cannot forgive our own sins; we need Christ.
6. Cannot close the gates of heaven against anyone.
7. Cannot get up a plan of salvation.
III. THINGS SOME THINK THEY KNOW BUT DO NOT 1. That God will accept instrumental music.
2. That a gospel subject will be saved without obedience to the gospel.
3. That a gospel subject can be saved out of the church.
4. That one church is as good as another.
5. That God will excuse ignorance of his will.
6. Improve on any of God’s ways.