HUMANISM;
REDEMPTION

The world is staggering on to no foreseeable future. We’re having a mixed-up time of it because we are putting God down and putting men up. When humanism came along about a generation ago and made the human mind to be the criterion of all thought and put God down, theology ceased to be the queen of the sciences. The queen of the sciences became science itself, or humanism or sociology. Then, of course, we went down because we had not put God up. If you exalt God, God will exalt you. But if you put God down, you will go down. And the world is in the mess it’s in because God has no place in the minds or hearts of the people.

The work of God in redemption is to restore this inverted order: to put God up and man down, in order that He might put man up. Now in order that He might do that, God came down—as far down as He could get.

Psalm 36:1–9; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Philippians 2:6–7

Success and the Christian, 139.