Green Eggs and Ham

No, I am not going to share about Dr. Suess...I am still talking about our sin..sorry to get your hopes up.

But we will talk about something that Dr. Suess wrote about...green eggs and ham...but we will come to a different conclusion.

At the end of Dr. Suess' book the green eggs and ham were pretty tasty...in real life...I am pretty sure that we all know that if eggs or ham are green...then this means that they have spoiled very badly...and not only would they taste bad...they would be bad for you!

What does this have to do with sin?

The last time we looked at sin, we saw how the Jews of the Old Testament, who did not live by faith in God's revealed word...and the promised Messiah to come, would have viewed their sins, and God's love as something very small because sin could be paid for by an animals life...and God's self sacrificing love would be small or none...well...because their was no self sacrifice...God just sent an animal.

But many non Jewish moderns...today...should not shake their fingers at the Israelites of old...because they actually have a worse offering to present before God...while at the same time...leaving God, a loveless Being who does nothing to set people free from sin.

Many people today, think that they can sin...and then to try to make it right, they just try to do a few good things here and there, offer a few dollars to a charity, be polite, kind, try and be fairly honest on the tax forms...

If someone offered to cook you a two egg omelet...but you noticed that the eggs were rotten...would you accept the offer?

And if you declined...and the person counter-offered by telling you that they could add a few more eggs...would that make it a more appealing offer?

Of course not! The eggs are bad! Making the offering bad!

The Bible tells that when the first man, Adam, rebelled and sinned against God, that he plunged the whole human race into sin.

He was the human races representative...and as our rep...he blew it!

When Adam fell into sin...all of us fell. This is why no one had to teach us to be selfish...no one had to teach us how to lie to cover our sins...no one had to teach us how to rebel against authority...no one had to teach us to look for number 1 [self]...all of these things come naturally because we are born sinful.

We are not sinners because we sin...we sin because we are sinners.

If I took an apple from my frigde and duct taped it to a pine tree...the pine tree doesn't all of a sudden become an apple try...but an apple tree does produce apples.

So, when we sin against God...and then think that we are going to try and offer our good works before God to undue all the bad stuff...all we are doing is adding more bad eggs to the omelete.

We view our sin as something so little...that we don't even see it mingled in our good works...and again we see God as so unloving...that He doesn't do anything to free us from our sin...He just accepts and eats green eggs and ham...