"There are only two ultimate possibilities in life. We are, all of us,
either for God or else we are against Him, and nothing else matters. The
color of your skin does not matter at all; you may be very clever, you
may be very learned, or you may be ignorant and illiterate—it does not
matter. The one question is: Are you one of God’s people, or are you one
of the people who are against Him?
There is no other possibility. There is no such thing as neutrality in the realm of the spirit.
To make no decision is always to make a decision against God, for we are all by nature against Him.
“The
carnal [natural] mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to
the law of God, neither indeed can be” (Rom. 8:7). We are all born
God-haters; we are all against God. Some people, I know, say, “I’ve
always believed in God.” But that means that they have never believed in
Him. What they have believed in is some figment of their own
imagination. If you confront such people with the God of the Bible, they
will soon begin to show their hatred of Him. They have a God whom they
can manipulate and handle, a God made after their own image and
likeness, and they hate the living God who is revealed in the Bible.
So
there is no such thing as neutrality. I repeat that we are either for
God or we are against Him. There is no no-man’s-land in this matter. We
all of us are inevitably in one of two camps. Our Lord Himself said it:
“He that is not with me is against me” (Matt. 12:30)."
— Martyn
Lloyd-Jones (2004). Vol. 4: Glorious Christianity (1st U.S. ed.).
Studies in the Book of Acts (252–253). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books.
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