Sin is the Will to Destroy God

Listening to a Bible lecture the other day I came across this -

'When you sin what are you saying?
I don't want to do His will, His law.
But the law is the basis of His government.
The sinning is trying to pull down the government of God. Right?
Sin is trying to destroy, pull down the government God has set up.
Sin is the will to destroy God.'


We don't like to think about sin that way. We think of it more as a harmless little hurt, a pinprick that God barely feels. He's God, right? Nothing can hurt Him. Nothing can destroy Him. When I sin I don't imagine I'm trying to destroy God that's just ludicrous. Why is sin so abhorrent to God then? In our own lives we sometimes acquire enemies. No, not everyone can say they have someone out there wanting to destroy them, but most people do find people in their lives that are less than happy to watch them succeed. As children it's very common to get on the wrong side of a school yard bully- it could be something as simple as a cross-eyed look at a bully and you're in their sites. When we're young it doesn't seem to matter what might set things off so much. Once a bully gets you in their sites they want to push you about, call you names, take you to the school yard and put you in your place. As we grow up sometimes that sort of thing continues on into high school but not so often as the childishness of things begins to give way to adulthood. The destroying of another that we perceive as a threat when we're older comes about in other ways. We use the law sometimes, other times we break the law to get back at another. Mostly we just learn to live with someone were not fond of and merely talk badly about them to prove to others how bad that person is so they don't befriend them. In some circles someone business men are at each others throats corporately trying to tear one another down in order to succeed. Corporate spies are common place and they're set in motion to gain information that can be used to hurt a company while benefitting another. Not all of the will to destroy another is fictional, though we do see some of it glorified in movies and books. Even on a grand scale- nation against nation - there is the *good guys* and the *bad guys* and of course it depends on which side you're on as to who is who. Certainly to our perceived bad guys we are the bad ones. We have wars going on right now and yes, killing going on right now, as we try to destroy an enemies whose values or lack there of are detrimental to ours. Kill or be killed they say. Destroy or be destroyed.


How many people out there actively try to destroy God? Impossible you say, He's not a *REAL* person. No one can point a gun at God and end His life. You're right and yet people actively hurt God more often than they even realize because they don't equate their actions with anything to do with God. Yet God is our creator and has an active interest in all we do, good or bad.


God is a spirit incapable of dying. Angels are spirits that under normal circumstance do not die, yet can be killed by God in the long run as a result of their rebellion. Satan is one such angel who has led a multitude of angels to defy God, to turn from God's ways seeking to destroy God and all He stands for.


We DON'T want to make that a reality in our minds, in our lives. We want that to be a fictional story. As long as God and Satan and the war between them is a fiction tale then we don't have to realize our own part in it all. When we realize that it isn't a tall tale but real life we have to realize that it is because of Satan seducing Eve into sin that we are all a part of this battle between God and Satan. We know who has won, but that doesn't stop the loser from wanting to take as many of us down with Him as He can- hurting God until the very last moment it's possible for Him to do so. God on the other hand is long suffering wanting as many as will to come to Him. He's set a time in the grand scale of things when it will all be decided one way or another and when that time comes we will either be on God's side or Satan's. So you see, it's very, very important for us to realize that our sins are our futile attempt to destroy God, to defy Him, to make His government, His laws, His ways of none effect. OUR SINS. Is it no wonder our sins caused the death of God's Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus became lowly human flesh in order to save us- proving once and for all that God's law, God's government, God's ways on earth are just.


'Sin is the will to destroy God.' Again, I have to emphasize, we don't believe that our sins, our petty little wrong doings and such are truly us trying to destroy God. Sin is the transgression of God's law. When we sin we are hurting God, we are hurting our fellow man and God's law says to honor and worship Him and to have respect to our fellow man- love God and love man- this is the whole law.


Mat 22:36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Mat 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Mat 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mat 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.


Our sins great or small break one of these two laws, or both. We don't want to believe that but it's true. We call our sins harmless and yet isn't that just what Satan wants? As long as we believe our sins are harmless and hurt no one, least of all God then we're fine.


We have to wake up and realize before it's too late that it is our sins that if left un-confessed and un-repented of that will ultimately kill us eternally. That it is our sins that are an admission of being in defiance of God. We can proclaim our Christianity until the day we die, but unless we realize that on a personal level each sin we commit is a strike against God, we are only fooling ourselves and letting ourselves be lulled into a false sense of security.


May God open our hearts and minds to the truth of His word. May we seek to understand and believe the truth that our sins are hurtful to God - big or small. By the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior may we seek forgiveness so that we may be at one with God through Him and not fighting against Him and His love.


Amen.