ARE YOU CONDEMNING GOD SO THAT YOU MAY BE RIGHTEOUS?
By Ryan Hicks
Job 40:8
8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
How wicked an act to condemn God so that you may be righteous! This is an act committed daily by mere professors of faith in Christ. They make excuses for their sin, they say God has granted them exceptions for their favorite form of unrighteousness, and they do this all in direct condemnation of God. They claim that what God said is sin is not applicable to them. They claim some new grace to live in sin, contrary to the plain text in Romans 6:1-2. They are denying the truth.
Any excuse of sin is a direct condemnation of God. You are trying to deny His law on any given thing to promote your own law of iniquity. You make yourself appear to be righteous at the expense of the integrity of God and the righteousness of His requirements.
Romans 3:4
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
God is true, regardless of what sinful man may try to imagine in their vain thoughts. You will be judged by the God of all eternity, whether you excused your sin or not. You will not be judged based on what you determined as right and wrong, but you will be judged on what He said was right and wrong.
What are some common excuses people give for sin?
ORIGINAL SIN
Original sin is a favorite of good and evil men alike. Most people believe God has set up His government in such a way that each human born from Adam's seed has both the guilt of Adam's sin and the sinful nature that sin caused. I have heard people in the vilest sins blaspheme their Creator and say that they cannot help but sin because of original sin. They condemn God and accuse Him of demanding holiness while creating them as beings that cannot help but sin. The creeds of religious men teach that you must sin in thought, word, or deed everyday and that there is nothing in the gospel to grant you the ability to live a life of holiness before God. What abomination! What filth! These creeds of men dare to condemn the Creator and disannul His judgment with their fool theories and excuses for unrepentance and rebellion!
MISTAKES, ERRORS, AND FAULTS
Another common excuse for sin is when people change mistakes, errors, and faults into sin. A mistake in judgment, a shortcoming, an ignorance to a fact, etc. are all not sin. The Scripture clearly defines sin for us, so we need not be ignorant as to what sin actually is. Sin "is the transgression of the law" (1 John 3:4). That is to say, if you willfully disobey the known will of God you have committed sin. This is not a simple human error in judgment, a fault, or a mistake; rather it is a willful choice to rebel against God and commit sin. Sin involves actual temptation and "every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren." (James 1:14-16). In every temptation God has given you a way to escape it and remain free from sin.
1 Corinthians 10:13
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
If you have read this and found that you have been guilty of condemning God then repent and get right with Him immediately. It is because of His lovingkindness that you were blessed to learn of your guilt and allowed to make things right with Him. You need to stop leaning to your righteousness because "all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags" (Isaiah 64:6) and get "the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe" (Romans 3:22).
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