How God Views and Deals with Our Sin

 

How does God view sin? We know from scripture that God hates sin and we also know that God desires us not to have sin in our lives and thus controlling our lives. God has gone to extreme lengths so that we don’t have sin marking and controlling our lives. In Genesis 3 we see how, when we as humans sin, God deals with it.

 

In verses 1-5, Satan in the form of a serpent deceives Eve to consider that God is withholding good things from her and Adam. In verse 6 Eve looks at this same fruit that she has been looking at for a long time but this time it looks different to her. Now what she sees is that it 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 got some of the fruit and gave some to Adam and they ate it. They deliberately disobeyed God and sinned.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about recognizing and admitting that we have disobeyed God and sinned.

 

In verse 7 after they ate the fruit that God had told them not to eat, their eyes became opened and they realized they were naked and they took fig leaves and tried to make something to cover themselves. And in verse 8 they heard God in the garden and they hid from Him. They were ashamed and afraid. They immediately lost their innocence, wonder, and intimacy with God.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about realizing that sin brings us the loss of our innocence and wonder and separates us from our intimacy with God.

 

In verse 9 God pursues them and calls out asking where they were. God was not looking for information. He was giving them an opportunity to confess and repent.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about being willing to admit our sin and turn away from it and back to God.

 

In verses 10 to 13 Adam and Eve try to justify to God why they disobeyed Him. Adam says it was Eve who gave him the fruit and Eve says it was the serpent who deceived her into eating the fruit. This is what most of us do when we are confronted with our sin. We try and justify it. The truth is, if we confess our sins and repent of them, God through Jesus’ death justifies us.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about trusting Jesus’ death to justify us and not trying to justify ourselves.

 

In verse 15 we are given the first prophecy of the coming of the Messiah. Satan will bruise His heel, but the Messiah will crush his head. Jesus is the Messiah and His heel was bruised on the cross but Jesus crushed Satan’s head as He rose from the dead and defeated Satan, death, and sin.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about knowing that Jesus is the Savior and Lord and surrendering our lives to Him.

 

In verse 21 Jesus makes clothes for Adam and Eve with animals skins. God made the first sacrifice for human sin. Jesus makes the ultimate sacrifice for sin with His death on the cross.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about accepting Jesus’ death on the cross as payment for our sin.

 

Jesus hates sin because it harms us as humans. He pursues us with His love and by His grace provides the remedy for our sin.

 

Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls,

Joe