Welcome, friends, to another
broadcast of Morsels for Zion's Poor. Men sin because they are
sinners, having inherited the corrupt nature of their father
Adam, whom the Lord created in order to demonstrate the glory
of His grace in His redemption. None of the activities which
occurred in the Garden of Eden happened by chance, nor was man
created in some sort of probationary period where he was put on trial
to see what he would do. He was designed to fulfill the
exact purpose for which he was created, and his subsequent sin
was as much ordained by the hand of God as was the creation of
the moon and the stars. The lovers of free will will
let out a collective gasp and immediately say that to say such
is to make God the author of sin. In saying this, they assumed
that it is possible for the potsherds of the earth to blame God, while
they deny that they do so, by exalting man as a free moral
agent who can choose, as they suppose, to do good as easily
as he can do evil. Adam could only do what he did,
and by doing so demonstrated his corruptible nature, just
like Judas, who sprang from his loins, and every other member
of the human race from that time forward. God made man to be without
excuse, and does dare men to find some fault with him in whatever
he would ordain to do. Nay, but, O man, who art thou
that replyest against God? Shall the thing formed say to
him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the
potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel
unto honour, and another unto dishonour? It is impossible for
man to put God on trial or to bring any accusation of wrongdoing,
whether hypothetically perceived or real, against Him. Whatever
God does is right, and He does not need any input or aid from
the creature to establish His sovereign right to do as He wills
with what He has alone created out of nothing. Nothing exists
without him. We can see most plainly that
men are sinners by birth, by choice, and by practice. Every
evil thought proceeds from their own corrupt nature, and all have
sinned and come short of the glory of God. Men cannot rightly
blame anyone for their sin. And as the Lord is pleased to
awaken a man to know his own depraved nature, he will confess
with David, wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse
me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have
I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest
be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive
me. The man who makes any excuse
for his sin does not know his own heart, which is deceitful
and desperately wicked. Men are to be blamed for their
sin, and it is sheer folly to think that there is any valid
excuse for it. Nothing that a man can do, think, or say can change
the charges which the law has rightly and justly brought upon
him. That law which is just and holy cannot be changed, nor can
any crime which has been committed or good deed omitted according
to its demands ever be forgotten or swept under the rug as if
it never happened. This is a law which demands satisfaction. The soul that sinneth shall die.
The wages of sin is death. The judge of all the earth will
by no means clear the guilty, nor will he at all acquit the
wicked. Therefore men find themselves in a dilemma from which they
have no escape, and are as the woman taken in the very act of
adultery and brought before the face of Jesus Christ, who is
of purer eyes than to even look upon sin, that is, to regard
it in a favorable light or have any approval of it. The Lord
Jesus did not need to breathe out condemnation upon this woman
because she was condemned already. Why was she, of all women and
men for that matter, who were guilty of the same act, singled
out and brought to the Lord? The wonder of all wonders is
that she was a vessel of mercy upon whom the Lord would demonstrate
his power to deliver from just condemnation by pronouncing her
blameless. Those glorious words, neither
do I condemn thee, rang in her ears with a sweet relief she
had never experienced before. Yet His pronouncement was not
a setting aside of the law, nor a disregard of the heinous nature
of her crime, but rather a declaration of His ability as the Savior
of sinners to take away her guilt by bearing it in His own body
on the tree. Christ has redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written,
Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. whom God has set forth
to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare
his righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through
the forbearance of God. To declare, I say, at this time
his righteousness, that he might be just and the justifier of
him which believeth in Jesus. Have you been made blameless
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