7401	Forums / Theology Forum / The Snake Pit	on: May 28, 2007, 05:00:25 PM
Men are incapable of meeting God eternal standard of righteousness. Since the fall men have been alienated from God, not just emotionally addicted to a disease or physiologically diseased. There are only three states of being that men are in. In the domination of sin, men are in an eternal state of judgment.  They are not just in a lost state but they are in a state of enmity against God.They are at odds with everything about God. They hate God. Men begin life scheming against the knowledge of God.  They are without the knowledge of God. Men are in complete spiritual darkness. The hate everything about God, they hate every one who names the name of Christ. Men have a natural aversion to any place, person, or thing that represents the name of God. Men like themselves more than they love God. Men never have a thought that is out of divine love. Their thoughts are without natural affection. Men are not only in sin, but they are dead in sin, and in a continuous state of death, under the condemning power of God, and are under the eternal decree of the judgment of God. Mans sin is not just an affront to Gods holiness, but it is an eternal affront to an eternal standard of Gods holiness. Men do not understand the nature of their sin, nor do they understand the eternal judgment that the sin brings to them. If God were to judge men by that standard without mercy, men would be eternally punished from the garden without the least bit of ability to change that state. God is eternally holy , so that He does not change. Where ever God is present, His eternal presence demands an eternal holiness. Men do not only commit sin which is an affront to His holiness, but men cannot even reach the standard of His righteous demands. Men cannot even understand the nature of His anger, nor can they fear God enough any moment of their existence. Any man who thinks that he is able to please God will meet the crushing blow of Gods eternal wrath. He will crush himself against the rock. And who can drink the full wrath of God? Who can fathom that kind of drink? What man can stand up against the eternal demands of Gods law. God is so holy that anyone who has ever encountered His presence has been devastated by His holiness. The more a man senses the presence of God , the more confounded he becomes about his own righteousness. Any man who has met God, has found himself confounded. Gods holiness is crushing. God stoops to a low men to go through this life receiving discipline for sin without being completely swallowed up in Gods eternal wrath, for even the smallest inability to be able to do one righteous act or to meet even the condescending nature of Gods revelation of Himself. Men are never able to understand the full nature of Gods eternal standard of His righteousness nor are they ever judged by that standard , it would destroy the most righteous man. God will pour out His eternal wrath on man one day, it is because God is eternal that He must meet the requirements of His judgment for sin, by and eternal punishment. Men will drink the full cup of His wrath. Men live in the eternal eminent judgment of God. That judgment is not far away. Because Gods wrath is manifested where ever sin is not atoned for. So that men are without remedy. Gods wrath is eternally present in the working out of all things in this world. Men are just blind the the depth, and the nature of its presence. God is pouring out His wrath on men, one by one, as men die every day. God will be vindicated and His holiness will be upheld. No one can escape the judgment of God. Even believers are receiving the judgment of sin. There is sorrow upon sorrow, for sin. We are mixed with sorrow and joy, pain and pleasure. We morn inwardly to wait for our full regeneration of all things. But our sorrow is mixed with joy. We are not without hope. We are in Christ so that we do not need to feel the full effects of sin, but we are receiving grace upon grace.