Would the 1976 Olympic gold medal winner of the decathlon be the real Bruce Jenner? NO.
Would the current Caitlyn Jenner be the real Bruce Jenner? NO.
Then you ask, “Who would the real Bruce Jenner be? ” To answer that question, we must first understand that it doesn’t matter who you or I think is the real Bruce Jenner or who he says is the real Bruce Jenner. What matters is what God says about who is the real Bruce Jenner.
God says that the real Bruce Jenner…
…is hostile to God.(Romans 8:7)
…cannot submit to God(Romans 8:7)
…cannot please God.(Romans 8:8)
…is spiritually dead.(Ephesians 2:1)
…follows the course of this world.(Ephesians 2:2)
…lives in the passions of his flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind.(Ephesians 2:3)
…is darkened in his understanding.(Ephesians 4:18)
…is alienated from the life of God.(Ephesians 4:18)
…is ignorant.(Ephesians 4:18)
…has a hardened heart.(Ephesians 4:18)
…is callous.(Ephesians 4:19)
…has given himself over to sensuality.(Ephesians 4:19)
…is greedy to practice every kind of impurity.(Ephesians 4:19)
…is captured by the devil to do his will.(2 Timothy 2:26)
…does not accept the things of the Spirit of God and is not able to understand them.(1 Corinthians 2:14)
…is separated from Christ.(Ephesians 2:12)
…has no hope.(Ephesians 2:12)
…is without God(Ephesians 2:12)
…is unrighteous.(Romans 3:10)
…does not seek for God.(Romans 3:11)
…does not do good.(Romans 3:12)
…has a hard and impenitent heart.(Romans 2:5).
SO THE REAL BRUCE JENNER IS…GULP…YOU AND ME!
You may think to yourself that you are not as bad as Bruce Jenner.
“you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.”
Romans 2:21-23(emphasis added)
You see, before a holy and just God, we all stand guilty as charged before Him.
“Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?”
Romans 2:1-3(emphasis added)
What are the “such things” being referred to here.
“And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.”
Romans 1:28-32
We all deserve the righteous judgment of God. That is what we have earned. Therefore our greatest need is to be delivered from His wrath.
Jesus came the first time as Savior.(John 3:17) He is coming the second time as Judge. What will YOU do in light of that truth? The word of God alone has the answer.
“The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
Acts 17:30-31(emphasis added)
