Sin is repulsive to God. We have difficulty grasping that. God thundered against the sin of man! He made spectacles of individuals and nations because of their sinfulness. God did not create man to live in sin and rebellion to Him. He created us in His image, to gain and share in His glory. Our problem is we do not see the seriousness of sin and the love of God dealing with it. We just shrug our shoulders and walk on in life, no big deal. But it is a big deal to God. Sin, all sin, is an open rebellion to God and His holiness. Sin has such reaching affects it reached all the way to heaven and laid its hand on God Himself! Think about that. Sin kicks God out of His rule and right over our lives and makes us set ourselves up as our own boss and authority. How do we act? However we feel at the moment. If we feel like we need to lie to get us out of a situation, we lie! No big deal! It doesn't matter what God wants. All that matters is what we want at the moment. Sin is that kind of master over us. God tries to pull us back and we won't allow that. We loudly justify we had a right to do this or that! We shake our fist in the face of God because of our sins and speak, "Why do you always get in our way?"
We sit smugly in our assemblies and studies. Those people who delivered Jesus up, we speak how ungodly they were. They saw the miracles of Jesus and we would not have done that. REALLY? They held to the Scriptures! They professed their belief in God. They hated, just plain hated. (Sound like some of us claiming to love the Lord?) They were envious. (Sound like some of us who claim Jesus as our Savior?) They plotted and gathered others around them who thought like them. (Sound like some of us who fellowship in the Supper each first day?) They lied. (Sound like some who deceive their mates or brethren?) They felt no shame in the end. (Sound like some who assembly week after week, holding to grudges and unforgiving spirits and still think they are in fellowship with the Lord?) They were ordinary sinners, just like us and we pass judgment on them in their settings, never looking at the realities of our own sins. WE WERE THERE WITH THEM!
Christ, the Lord and heart of God, came! There was no truce between the Lord Jesus Christ and sin. Whatever is not like Christ in attitude, word or deed is utterly sinful. Every act of wrong we do is a result of my sinfulness. We speak a profane word. Did that come from Jesus? No, that was our sinfulness speaking. When it is in my power to help the weak, reach out to the lost, encourage someone who is faint hearted and I don't really want to be bothered, especially go out of my way for another, sin says, "Pursue your own selfishness and forget Christ!" Our sin robs us from being like Him.
The dying of Jesus in our place speaks: "I love you!" The death of Jesus speaks: "I wish My love were returned!" The crucified Christ says: "I cannot endure or tolerate sin as it is the one thing that separates us!" SIN MUST BE DEALT WITH AND IT WAS! What are we going to do?
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