iS JESUS RELEVANT TODAY - PART 5

                                              IS JESUS 
 RELEVANT  TODAY

        PART 5

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Rebellion against God's Moral Laws.

C.S. Lewis reasoned that even though we are internally programmed with a desire to know God, we rebel against it from the moment we are born. Lewis also began to examine his own motives, which led him to the discovery that he instinctively knew right from wrong.

Lewis wondered where this sense of right and wrong came from. We all experience this sense of right and 
wrong when we read of Hitler killing 
six million Jews. or a hero sacrificing 
his or her life for someone. We instinctively know it is wrong to lie 
and cheat.

This recognition that we are programmed with an inner moral law 
led the former atheist to the conclusion that there must be a moral "Lawgiver."

Indeed, according to both Jesus and 
the Scriptures, God has given us a moral law to obey. And not only have we turned our backs on a relationship with Him, we have also broken these moral laws which God  established.

Most of us know some of the Ten 
Commandments:

"Don't lie, steal, commit adultery and 
murder, etc. "    Jesus summarized them
by saying we should love God with all
our heart and our neighbor as ourselves.
Sin, therefore, is not only the wrong that
we do in breaking the law, but also our
failure to do what is right.

God made the universe with laws that
govern everything in it. They are inviolable, and unchangeable.  When Einstein derived the formula E=MC2  he unlocked the mystery of nuclear energy. Put the right ingredients together under exacting circumstances and
enormous power is unleashed. The Scriptures tell us that God's moral law 
is no different in that it stems from His very character.

From the very first man and woman, 
we have disobeyed God's laws, even though they are for our best. And we have failed to do what is right. We 
have inherited this condition from the first man, Adam.  The Bible calls this disobedience, sin, which means "missing the mark," like an archer missing his intended target.  Thus our sins have broken God's  intended relationship with us. Using the 
archer's  example, we have missed 
the mark when it comes to the purpose we were created for.

Sin causes the severing of all relationships:
The human race severed from its environment, (alienation), individuals severed from  themselves, (guilt and shame), people severed from other people, (war and murder), and 
people severed from God, (spiritual death). Like the links on a
 chain once the first link 

between God and humanity   
was  broken, all
contingent links became 
uncoupled.  

And we are broken, As Kayne West raps "And I don't think there is nothing I can do to right my wrongs...... I want to speak to God, but I am afraid cause we aint spoke in so long."  West's
lyrics speak of the separation that sin brings to our lives. And, according to the Bible this separation is more than just lyrics in a rap song.
It has deadly consequences.

Our Sins Have Separated Us From God's Love.

Our rebellion, (sin) has created a wall of separation between God and us. 
(See Isaiah 59:2)  In the Scriptures, "separation" means spiritual death, and spiritual death means completely separated from the light and life of 
God.

"But wait a minute," you might say, "but didn't God know all that before He made us? 
Didn't He see that His plan was doomed for failure?" Of course, an all-knowing God would realize that we would rebel and sin.  In fact, it is our failure that makes His plan so mind-blowing.

This brings us to the reason that God came to earth in human form  and even more incredible the reason for His death.

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