When we realize the black destructive evil of our sin, we either attempt to run and hide from God, or we see God as our Savior and cry out for Him to forgive us, and cleanse us from the darkness of sin.
In the Bible we have two people who demonstrate the one who hides from God and the one who cries out to God.
The first is impossible while the second is imperative.
In the Bible we have two people who demonstrate the one who hides from God and the one who cries out to God.
"So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden" Genesis 1:6,7,8.
Having done what God expressly commanded him not to, as soon as Adam realized he was a sinner, he ran and hid from God's presence. Now covered by the evil of his sin, Adam knew he couldn't stand before a righteous and holy God.
When someone knows they are a sinner, (and inherently, because everyone is a descendant of Adam, therefore everyone does), many times that person stays far away from anything remotely connected to God. They hate the name Jesus, and cannot stand the witness of Christians.
They will attempt to cover their sin by making a self-righteous religion that satisfies the longing to be connected to God. Because of this false belief in a man-made religion, they reject anything that reminds them that God is true salvation. This hatred sometimes goes to the extreme and they kill the one who tells them about Jesus' love that will forgive them.
In total opposition to Adam's self-righteous attempt at covering his sin with his own efforts, (sewing fig leaves for clothing), Jesus wanted to stay connected to God the Father.
"And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' That is, 'My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?'" Matthew 27:46 (see also Psalm 22)
Jesus is fully God and fully Man, yet God the Father stepped out of Jesus' life because, at this point, all the sins of the world, from Adam to the last person to die at the battle of Armageddon, were placed upon Jesus, the Man. All the black destructive sin of the world became Jesus' sin. The sinless Man took the punishment of all the wrath of God. The horrible black evil of sin made God abandon His one and only Son.
"For He made Him who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him" 2 Corinthians 5:21.
Jesus felt that horrible separation Adam felt in the garden but in contrast to Adam running and hiding, Jesus cried out that His separation was painful and He wanted the connection returned. We cannot understand all of this, but we believe it.
"For we walk by faith and not by sight" 2 Corinthians 5:7.
When we see our sin as black destructive evil separating us from God, we, like Jesus, cry out to God to receive the connection from which Adam ran.
Because Jesus carried the wrath of God to death, we get to receive eternal life. Three days after Jesus was entombed, He rose from the dead, proving that God accepted the death debt He paid.
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" Romans 6:23.
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