Do you know any smugglers? You're probably thinking, "That's kind of of weird. I don't know any smugglers." Right? Honestly, I don't know any either. In fact, when I think of smuggling, I think of Star Wars Episode IV, A New Hope, where Han Solo was a smuggler. He hides Princess Leia and Luke underneath the floorboard in his ship, where he used to hide the cargo or contraband that he'd hide from the Empire... because he was a smuggler.

That has really nothing to do with what we're talking about today. Today we're going to talk about people who smuggle in ideas, often undetected by us, in conversation. Here's what I mean. When we talk about morality, most often that's where this type of thing occurs. Someone might say, "I don't need God to be moral. I just do things that help other people." Or someone might even say, "I don't think morality exists. It's bad to force your moral views on people."

Both of these individuals who make statements like this have smuggled in a moral concept, and we need to be able to pick up on that. We need to catch on to the smuggling of morality into the conversation. Did you notice where it happened? Let's go back through it quickly and I'll point it out.

When someone says, "I don't need God to be moral. I just do what helps other people," they're implicitly saying that helping other people is a moral good. It's a good thing. In the second example, “morality doesn't exist; it's bad to force your moral views on people,” Where did this idea of bad come from? Isn't that a moral idea? They've smuggled in their moral views. In fact, I would suggest to you that no one can actually consistently live in this world and deny that morality exists, or say that it's just up to the individual. At some point they will try to apply their moral views to someone else. They will act like morality is not subjective, like it's not just up to me to decide, but they will act as though it's objective, a fact of reality, something that's true for everyone.

Let's talk about some problems with this view that “I don't need God to be moral. I just do what helps other people.” The first thing to point out is non-Christians can do moral things. They can. They can do good actions. They can hold the door for someone. They can hop on a grenade to save their comrades in war. They can do those types of things. But they can never be as moral as they should be because it is immoral to not worship God. Not worshiping is actually a sin. Not placing faith in God is a sin. You might think that sounds extreme. Well God has commanded us to worship him. He has commanded everyone to repent, so not doing that is sinful. Non-Christians cannot be as moral as they should be.

But, more than that, they can do moral actions. They can still do good things. We need to be clear on that. Denying the existence of God doesn't mean you won't end up doing moral things. You'll be inconsistent when you do it, which is something we'll get to in a minute, but nonetheless, everyone actually knows what morality is. Everyone knows morality exists, and in general, people all believe the same things, by and large, to be moral — at least the big ones. Breaking a trust is considered to be immoral. Murdering is considered to be immoral. Why? People just seem to innately know this, but the reason is actually because God has created us in his image and these things are written on our heart, Paul tells us in Romans. That's the first point: not worshiping God is immoral. However, the non-Christian can still do moral actions.

The second is that, as I've already pointed out, morality often gets smuggled into conversations. This is something we always have to be on the lookout for. Someone will be saying, "Well, morality doesn't exist. It's wrong when you …