Our Salvation rests on three things: God, sin, and death. This is the hardest thing to teach because today in our world generally, these three things have lost their meaning. For millions of people, God is no more than a name with which to personify their a feeling of beauty and goodness, for a reservoir of goodwill. God is a dream, an ideal, almost devoid of existence. God has become dependent on man and the only inference to be drawn is that if there were no men there would be no God. And if there is no God, there can be no sin, and the word “sin” has almost vanished from use.
All that remains of the idea is a social maladjustment or the vestiges of a earlier stage of evolution. Where God and sin have been banished from minds, and death is no longer with a evil, but an event to be accepted as the natural end of life. W
hat happens after death and to the soul, there are no qualms. Many people give no conscious thought to the problems of death or future life.
John speaks of sin in 1 John 3:4, saying sin is lawlessness. This definition is profound because it is much more than the transgression of law, it is the act of passing over a mark set by law. It’s a tendency towards transgression and the motive that impending it, as well as the deed itself. Lawlessness identifies the sin as the characteristic in men which abandons restraint or control from a source outside themselves. It is that which man sets up himself as the standard by he measures his own life. A demand for self-rule, and becomes their standard of truth to whatever the person wants it to be. An invention if you will of a doctrine of immortality of their soul. Which in the long run invades their relationship with others, and brings abandonment of truth and faithfulness with God.
Through lawlessness people become their own measure of good, the good the desires that satisfies their own ego, and may be the cruelest evil for other people.
Paul says in Hebrews 11:6 “God is the rewarder of those who seek Him.” It is the very ground of hope in reward the fulfillment of promises. This faith is the ground on which righteousness is reckoned to men by God. And since is the exact opposite, since is denial, not formally, but in practice that God is true, or that He exists. Only a fool says “There is no God Corrupt are they, and have done abominable works. There is none who do good” (Psalm 14:1). Corruption is the direct result of the inward denial that there is a God.
People that deliberately go their own way against the will of God is eitherto make Him a liar or to treat Him as non existent. With God people would draw no breath.
It is the absolute being of God which makes the sentence of death for disobedience not only just but inevitable. If God is God, then the wages of sin could not be other than death. The one thing that God cannot do I’d to deny Himself, to deny His own being and truth, and for God to allow who He has made to claim moral self-rule would be to tolerate a challenge to Hid supremacy. That would be nothing less than the abdication of the Devine Dynasty from the rule of His own universe, leaving it in chaos – a hypothesis which is literally unthinkable. It can be stated only to be rejected, because it disrupts reason itself and no sane mind could contemplate it.
From Pity to Praise 