06/30/18 A LOST TREASURE TO MOST PEOPLE TODAY
Knowing God's law shows sinners their need for God.
Thus people hate the Bible.
It shows us we are sinners needing salvation.
This is why Satan has fought so hard against the Bible, against the preaching of the Bible, against holiness of heart and life, against obedience to God. He wants to keep them unaware of their plight and their pending rescue.
As long as sinful people do not know that their desires, their actions, their relationships are sinful, they do not know that they are separated from God, they do not know that they need to be saved from their sins and the consequences of their sins.
YES, everyone knows that he/she has done something that they should not have done, but NO, they have not understood the exceeding wickedness of their sins, until they hear the word of God.
God's word reveals the sinfulness of sin. God's word reveals the corruption and cost of disobedience to the law, the nature, the rule of God in their lives.
It is not that people are safe or excused by being unaware of God's law. They are still guilty before God, but they become deaf and blind to the fact of their guilt. They do not realize they are guilty and and bound for eternal judgment. Therefore they do not realize God's merciful and loving provision to save them from their sins.
John 3:19-21
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Romans 7:7
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Romans 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
