What Does God Think of Sin? | The Whole Counsel

Then what follows is an application of all of this and he gives it in six pretty probing questions. Questions I find hard to answer correctly. Certainly questions that are very helpful to lovingly present to a lost person and questions We're gonna see helpful for the Christian to continue to grow in clarity in this area.

But Chuck you and I want to talk about that more in depth, so I'm not gonna run through that list right now. Well the sermon is very detailed and there's just so much here that we feel that we really can't go through each part equally.

So we wanted to just choose a few things that we thought were most significant for our day. So I'll just jump in there. One that I'm really gripped with is the amazingly significant impact of what his basic premises and that is No person can correctly Feel about spiritual things until they correctly see those spiritual things.

So we could apply that in more than one way. One way of course is to the issue of sin. Which he basically applies it to. No, man, really feels The ugliness and the shame and the weight of his sin until he sees sin as God sees sin.

But also and Bellamy doesn't mention this as much in the sermon. It's not his emphasis, but I was thinking it also applies to the beautiful things of Scripture. No, man can really understand the infinite measureless beauty of the gospel and of the love of God which Surpasses understanding.

If we don't we can't feel those things if we don't see them as God sees them.

Bellamy emphasizes this point in a quote on the bottom of page 64 Where he says. It is quite beyond our capacity to comprehend the vileness There is in treating God as the sinner does unless we could as he can Comprehend all his greatness and glory and fully see all the grounds and reasons there are for us to love Reverence and obey him and feel all their binding force.

God is fully conscious to himself That he is the maker and Lord of the universe the maintainer and upholder of the world the rightful king and sovereign over all. He is fully conscious that there is an infinite reason for us to rejoice in him Exult in his government and be glad in his service and that the contrary temper and conduct of his creatures is infinitely unreasonable and wicked.

So.

God looks at everything and he sees everything as it is and that informs. We can kind of say it informs the way he feels about those things. He the way he views him He sees it. How could we feel about these things what God feels when?

We are confused about them and they're blurry to us.