The Soul of Man is Naturally Christian

I came across this while listing to a sermon last week. The pastor was speaking on Matthew 8:14-17, the part where Jesus goes to Peter's home and his mother in law was ill with a fever. I'm not going to go through the entire sermon here, but the thing that I took away from the message was this: Our purpose is to know God and love others. We see in verse 14 that Jesus came into Peter's home and saw Peter's mother-in-law laying sick in bed. Then Jesus touches her hand, and the fever left her; and she got up and waited on Him. The pastor then interprets the text for the present day Christian: 1) we are meant to bring Christ to others. 2) We are meant to serve others at His touch. 3) However because of illness, Peter's mother-in-law is not able to serve until Christ touches her. What this means is that we can not carry out what God creates us to be until Christ touches us.

The pastor then goes on to say this: "Mankind is not wired for life without God. The soul of man is Christian. Man is meant to recognize the sovereignty of God and God's presence around him. Man is meant to recognize the fact that he has not been faithful to love others as he himself wants to be loved. He does not do unto others as he would like to do unto him. He is meant to come to the only true God for repentance and forgiveness. He is meant to know who God is solely by His Word that He has made known. He is meant to know that forgiveness and now reborn, began to do what God created him to do, and that is to know God and love others. That is what a human is meant to do." Man can not be what he was meant to be until Christ touches him.