IS JESUS RELEVANT TODAY? PART FIVE

  
IS JESUS RELEVANT            TODAY                                 
   PART FIVE

     (copied from 
      Y-Jesus.com) 


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 his 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 form 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 upon a relationship with Him , we also have broken these moral laws that God established.  Most of us know some of the Ten Commandments.

    "Don't lie, steal, murder, commit adultery, 
      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 inviolabel and unchangeable. When Einstein derived the formula  E= MC2  he unlocked the mystery of nuclear energy. Put the right ingredients together under exacting conditions and enormous power is unleashed. The Scriptures tell us that God's moral law is no less valid, since 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 it's environment,(alienation), individuals severed from themselves (guilt and shame) people severed from other people (war, murder) and people severed from God, (spiritual death). Like 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's nothing I can do to right my wrongs .... I wanna talk to God, but I'm afraid cause we aint spoke in so long ...."    West's lyrics speak of the separation 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 50:2)

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  "Didn't God know all that when He made us?  Why didn't He see that His plan was doomed to 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 why God came to earth in human form, and even more incredible, the remarkable .reason for His death

                           

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