When creation speaks to the existence and glorious design of its Creator we should pay attention, but for many self-professing wise men and woman, they don’t, why? How can people, some highly educated (2 Timothy 3:7), stand and refuse what is so visibly apparent that even a child can see it? The answer to this question is not what you may think. It’s not a lack of knowledge or evidence, or even opportunity. The reason people do not acknowledge God as the one and only self-proclaimed Creator of all of creation (Isaiah 45:5-7) is sin.

You see, sin is at the heart of humanity’s rebellion towards their Creator, and has been since the beginning of creation (Gen 3). Sin is what separates us from God, it is what will always separate us from God if left to ourselves (Isaiah 59:2). Sin is the reason so many deny God’s existence because if they admitted to His existence then they would need to come under His law and face the truth that there will be a judge to which they will have to answer when they pass from this life to the next. They suppress this essential truth, because they love their sin and they love their rebellion. They think if they deny God’s existence it will not make them accountable to Him but if anything, it just points to their foolishness. Can a criminal, standing condemned to death by execution, just refuse to believe that the judge and His verdict is not real, and escape its reality? No, that would be crazy to think that. Even a child can see the fallaciousness of that argument, but because of their love for sin, that is why we all do it. God has told us this Himself, written in His word, He reveals this very answer.

Romans 1:18-25 says, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.  For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.  For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.  For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.  Claiming to be wise, they became fools,  and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.  Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,  because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.”

So God has revealed Himself in  and through His creation, His word (The Bible), and by sending His son as a living testament that these words are true and have been true for all of eternity.

John 1:1-5; 14 says, “In the beginning was the Word [Jesus Christ], and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.  In him was life, and the life was the light of men.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it… And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”

But because of sin, humanity has rejected God’s testament and proof of the reality that, we all stand in judgement before a holy, righteous and just Creator (Romans 3:23; 6:23). We rejected it so much, that because of the evilness of sin, humanity killed the only Son of God. But why would an all-powerful God allow this to happen? The answer is found in two words, Love and Redemption.

Scripture tells us that God sent His Son for this very purpose, to redeem those who are in rebellion against Him and that for those who would believe, He gives the gift of eternal life which, according to the Bible, is reconciliation with God through His Son Jesus Christ (John 17:3).

John 3:16-21 tells us, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.  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.  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.  For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.  But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.” 

Romans 5:6-8 says, For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.  For one will scarcely die for a righteous person-though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die-  8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Pastor John Piper explains in his book, Future Grace (pages 110–111), “God did not spare his own Son but handed him over — to death. “This Jesus [was] delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God” (Acts 2:23). Isaiah 53 puts it even more bluntly, “We esteemed him stricken, smitten by God. . . . It was the will of the Lord to crush him; he (his Father!) has put him to grief” (Isaiah 53:4; 10)…

God did not spare his own Son, because it was the only way he could spare us and still be a just and holy God. The guilt of our transgressions, the punishment of our iniquities, the curse of our sin would have brought us inescapably to the destruction of hell. But God did not spare his own Son; he gave him up to be pierced for our transgressions, and crushed for our iniquities, and crucified for our sins.

This verse — Romans 8:32 — is the most precious verse in the Bible to me because the foundation of the all-encompassing promise of God’s future grace is that the Son of God bore in his body all my punishment and all my guilt and all my condemnation and all my blame and all my fault and all my corruption, so that I might stand before a great and holy God, forgiven, reconciled, justified, accepted, and the beneficiary of unspeakable promises of pleasure forever and ever at his right hand.

So in our rebellion God comes after us to rescue us from ourselves, what an amazing Creator and God we have. Do not let this rebellion keep you blind and under condemnation. Look to God’s infallible word for truth, His word is truth (John 17:17). Turn from your sin, trust alone in Jesus for your redemption (John 14:6, Isaiah 43:10-11) and see God open your eyes to these truths today (1 Corinthians 2:9)!

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Do not continue in rebellion, be redeemed and find the peace and joy that can only come from knowing the One who created you!