God's Love For Man In Sin
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings...
There are few things in this world more certain than the love of God for man, though people ignore it or flat out deny it, there is no doubt concerning God’s precious love.
The great apostle of love John was inspired to write in , “God is love.”
Though this fact remains recognized I’m not sure it is fully accepted or realized in it’s entirety.
To really appreciate God’s great and amazing love we must first understand and be appalled at man’s lack of love.
Today we are going to examine “God’s Love For Man In Sin.”
Sin is counter to God in every way, as it is literally breaking God’s law and thus love for us.
To get a better idea of God’s love for His creation let’s begin by examining something not so fun...
Man In Sin
Man In Sin
Adam & Eve
Adam & Eve
In six days God created the universe and rested on the seventh day.
In that universe He created the earth for mankind to dwell and it was perfect in every way.
In that perfect earth God created a special garden in “Eden” wherein He placed Adam and eventually created Eve where the two could not only live but grow as a family ().
This garden was a place where God and man could literally “walk and talk” ().
However, the very first man and woman lusted for more and desired sin more than righteousness.
Gen 3:
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
There was literally nothing more perfect the Creator could have done for His creation than He did and man still turned from God’s love.
The great flood
The great flood
Roughly 1600 years after God created the universe in six days the Bible reads...
6 And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
In only 1600 years God had gone from saying at the end of the sixth day of creation “it is very good” to “it grieved him to his heart” but why?
5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Noah’s father, Lamech, died five years before the flood came and Noah’s grandfather Methuselah died in the flood.
Neither were righteous though both, no doubt, heard Noah’s preaching and both also were alive when Adam was alive.
Methuselah was 243 years old when Adam died and Lamech was 56 years old.
The Israelites
The Israelites
This “chosen people” were raised by God, taken care of by God, and loved by God.
Ezek 16:
1 Again the word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations, 3 and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. 4 And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.
They worshiped idols after witnessing God’s love for them miraculously and other wise over and over.
15 “But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his. 16 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.
They worshiped idols after witnessing God’s miracles over and over again.
Ezekiel 16:15-
Their greatest king David, a man after God’s own heart, committed fornication and murder.
8 And I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. 9 Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
2 Sam 12:8-9
During the days of the Judges we read this sad tell concerning God’s people...
Judges
25 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
19 So they said, “Behold, there is the yearly feast of the Lord at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”
God’s creation with Creator on the earth.
God’s creation with Creator on the earth.
You would think with “God in the flesh” things would change, creation would recognize Creator and all would be good.
During Jesus’ day God’s man had “every male child” 2 years old and younger was murdered simply because Jesus was born.
16 Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.
During Jesus’ day man not only wanted God in the flesh dead but murdered Him.
Mt 27:
25 And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.
During Jesus’ day man not only murdered God in the flesh but when they heard He had been resurrected they paid to silence the witness.
During Jesus’ day God’s creation killed the “only begotten Son of God.”
11 While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place. 12 And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sufficient sum of money to the soldiers 13 and said, “Tell people, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’
Summery
Summery
Man’s sin is so prolific and so abounding that God has prophetically declared...
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Not only that mankind has become so accustom to sinning that even God has stated that we are able to be “inventors of evil.”
30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:
And yet through all that and in all that “God still loves us!”
God’s Love For Man
God’s Love For Man
God’s love for man isn’t based on our love for Him.
God’s love for man isn’t based on our love for Him.
Simply put God’s nature is love, as we mentioned earlier (), and therefore it doesn’t matter how sinful we are or become God still loves us.
15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
The great news is, no matter how sinful we have become and no matter how far down the path of unrighteousness we have traveled, God still loves us and desires for us to return to Him.
God’s love demands
9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
Adam & Eve sinned yet God still loved them.
Adam & Eve sinned yet God still loved them.
When Adam and Eve ate of the tree they should not have and sinned God still showed them love.
The wages of sin is death () and yet God offered them love.
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
God gave the promise of salvation from sin to those that first sinned.
All of mankind sinned yet God still loved them.
All of mankind sinned yet God still loved them.
It might be hard to imagine but God showed His love for mankind with the flood.
Remember God was “sorry” He had created mankind because every soul except that of Noah was seeking unrighteousness.
Man was going to be destroyed
God cleansed the earth of sin and gave mankind another chance.
20 because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. 21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
20 because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
God demonstrated His love to Noah, his family, and all of mankind by showing His grace and mercy.
The Israelites sinned yet God still loved them.
The Israelites sinned yet God still loved them.
The Israelites are the perfect example of God’s continued love for His creation.
Here is a people God took “special” care of.
4 And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born. 6 “And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’
Ezek 16:4-
4 And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.
7 I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare. 8 “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine.
Ezek 16:
6 “And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ 7 I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare. 8 “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine.
6 “And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ 7 I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.
8 “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine. 9 Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.
As we noticed earlier this same “special people” turned their back on God committed fornication on Him with false gods and yet, we read that God still loves them.
Ezek 16:
59 “For thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant, 60 yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.
Over and over again the Israelites turned away from God to follow their own lusts and over and over again God gave them opportunity to repent and return.
God’s love for man isn’t based on our love for God.
God’s love for man isn’t based on our love for God.
Simply put God’s nature is love, as we mentioned earlier (), and therefore it doesn’t matter how sinful we are or become God still loves us.
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
The great news is, no matter how sinful we have become and no matter how far down the path of unrighteousness we have traveled, God still loves us and desires for us to return to Him.
9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Summery
Summery
I think Jesus said it best to the Pharisee Nicodemus...
“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him” ().
Conclusion
Conclusion
God’s Love For Man In Sin is evident throughout the Bible.
In fact the Bible was written so that everyone could see God love for them.
It doesn’t matter how far down the rabbit hole of sin we have traveled, if we are willing, like the prodigal son, to “come to our senses” and return home God is waiting for you.
I’m reminded of what Augustine once wrote, “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” 1
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
https://www.christianquotes.info/top-quotes/17-amazing-quotes-about-gods-love/