Why Is the World the Way It Is? | Gary Wilkerson

Why Is the World the Way It Is? | Gary Wilkerson

From World Challenge Sermons by World Challenge, Inc.

May 17, 2026 · 48 min · Episode 222

About this episode

Gary Wilkerson explores the reasons behind the state of the world and personal sin, emphasizing the transformative power of Jesus' grace.

Gary Wilkerson walks straight into the hardest question first — why is the world like it is, and why am I like I am — then reveals that the same one-man problem that unleashed sin, death, and condemnation on the human race has been more than answered by one man whose grace, righteousness, and abundant life far outweigh everything Adam lost. Preached: May 1, 2026 Main Points: One man's sin in a garden released a virus more contagious and more deadly than anything that ever came out of a laboratory, spreading condemnation, judgment, death, and the wrath of God to every person born since. The mortality rate from the fall of man is exactly 100 percent. The more important question is not why the world is as it is, but why I am as I am, because that is the one arena where the Holy Spirit will actually allow us to change something. Paul confessed it plainly: I do the very thing I hate and cannot do the thing I want. We are sin deniers. We call it a moral failure, a disorder, a syndrome, a hangup, a struggle. God calls it sin, and until we call it what he calls it, we cannot receive what he has already done about it. Jesus did not just come to forgive the sins you committed. He came to…

People in this episode

Guest: Gary Wilkerson

Topics covered

  • sin
  • grace
  • redemption
  • human condition
  • spirituality
  • Christianity

Keywords

  • sin
  • grace
  • redemption
  • human condition
  • spirituality
  • Christianity
  • Paul
  • Jesus

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