Title: Humans making excuses for the environment
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I said that as a result of original sin, the four relationships were severed to man. First, the relationship with God was cut off, and the relationship with man was cut off. Adam confessed when he first saw Eve.
“Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.”
Even though there was an opponent, there was no competition. I was very happy.
Be a person who makes you happy when you have a partner.
What kind of fun would you have if you didn't have a partner?
The ruling party says, "I wish the opposition would disappear...", and the opposition party says, "I wish that the ruling party disappears...".
But try to disappear. It is comfortable for a while, but there is no progress in life, and there is no reward in life.
A person who discovers the meaning of my existence in the existence of the other person is a very happy person. Adam and Eve had this kind of happiness. But what happened after the crime? When God inquired about eating good and evil, Adam said, "It was because of that woman!" They were no longer one. It was through sin that we were cut off from humanity.
Everyone! Isn't that comforting? Adam and Eve were mankind's first lovers. He was a lover who had an incomparable love with us. They were the only lovers on this planet who could become a perfect one. But when we see that even that romantic relationship is destroyed by sin, isn't it natural that our human relationship is bound to be weak?
Everyone! Break fantasies about people, about husbands or wives. Know that our relationship can be much more broken than that of Adam and Eve. The only way for a marriage relationship to be perfect is for both of them to look to God with one heart. And the fatality of sin does not end there. Because of sin, man had to experience even disconnection from his environment. Disconnection from the environment has two consequences for humans:
1. Humans began to blame the environment.
What is Eve's excuse? “The serpent deceived me, so I ate” (verse 13). Eve blamed the serpent for her sin. But it is shameful to say that I have become this way. Fallen human beings like this always make excuses. Even now, like Eve, there are many people who say 'because of...'.
They say, "Why did God create the tree of knowledge? Don't make the tree of knowledge and evil." What a terrifying excuse to say that you sinned because of the tree of good and evil, after all, that you sinned because of God.
Those who commit great crimes today make excuses later. "It was because I grew up under a flagellum. It was because of poverty. It was because there were many wounds in the past, so please understand." Furthermore, they make excuses by saying, "The world is dirty and there are many absurdities in society...". What do many people, especially psychologists and sociologists, say now? They say, “It is because the environment is bad” or “It is because the social environment is bad”. Of course, you should try to make the environment better, but is that the absolute cause?
Much of sociology or psychology begins with atheism. Sociology is the study of how humans can live well together by excluding God from the study method of that study. So, even if a child commits a crime, the environment is the same. Then you will be unable to control all the sins of this world. It all has to do with the environment, so who can be punished? If we have sinned, we should not blame the circumstances. Instead of blaming the circumstances you want to blame, you should blame yourself.
We should become the beings who govern the environment, not the beings that allow the environment to influence humans. People who make environmental excuses are saying they can't control the environment. So, rather than penetrating the environment, I feel comfortable assimilating into the environment.
If a child who can't study says, "There is no study room" or "I didn't do tutoring," without thinking of studying more, will there be any progress? In fact, what is the reason that there are children who rank first even without study rooms? When the environment is bad, we have to pray to break through the environment and pray to win. It is people who change the environment, and if it assimilates with the environment, isn't it material? The material is polluted with the environment. But people change the environment. Because God has commanded you to rule and conquer all things.
There are also children who are tempted to smoke next to each other and say that they smoked. That's an excuse. Where in the world is there without such temptation? There is no place on earth without temptation. Don't make excuses for the environment! You can find the solution only when you know that you are always responsible for your sins. The environment should not be an excuse! God sent me to my home to change my family.
If you pray before God with the promise, "I will be the sun of this family!" and build it with the power God gives, you can surely light the family. You shouldn't say "I can't. I can't. She eats like that..."!
The Bible says that the meek will possess the earth. When the opponent comes out strong, if I come out too hard, it explodes and only fights happen. However, if you respond kindly when it comes out harshly, it will put your anger to rest. That is why we should strive to find a way to overcome the environment God has given us without making excuses for it.
2. The environment has come to rebel against humans.
Cursed was the earth, and it brought forth thorns and thistles. In other words, the relationship with the natural environment is cut off. When God created humans on the sixth day, He blessed them and spoke. "Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. Subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves on the earth." (Genesis 1:28) I did. It was so in the Garden of Eden, where there was no sin. The relationship between humans and the natural environment was a soft and harmonious relationship. Nature was a being that could not protest against humans. Events in which nature caused typhoons to kill hundreds of humans were unimaginable in Eden.
It was also unimaginable in Eden that tigers eat people. It was unimaginable in Eden for a rose to pierce a person with a thorn. However, because of sin, the relationship with the natural environment was cut off, and a headwind came from the natural environment, and human beings had to suffer from the wind. Humans have been cut off from their relationship with nature because of their sins. How deadly are the consequences of sin? .
What are the causes of obstructions in the way of people today? Because of sin, not anything else. Therefore, the only way to break through all blockages is to thoroughly repent before God and make ourselves clean. If we want God to come upon us, we must have a pure heart. The mark of a true Christian is that we feel unclean when we sin. However, those who do not know God do not feel unclean even in the face of sin. It's like a pig being in a dirty place and not feeling it.
The difference between saints and sinners is not whether they can sin or not. No one can be free from sin.
The only difference between them is that their basic attitude toward sin is different. Although the saints slip into sin through their own weakness, they abhor sin. But the sinner plunges into sin and rejoices in it. What is the high price a saint has to pay for sinning? Losing the joy of fellowship with God. The warm voice of God is no longer heard as a warm voice. The light begins to go out and the warmth begins to disappear before their psyche.
We do not lose our salvation because we have sinned. But when we sin, we lose the joy of salvation. How did David pray as he repented of Bathsheba? “Restore to me the joy of your salvation” (Psalm 51:12).
Do you want to know if your relationship with God is normal now? You can test your relationship with God in a simple way. Then you can see if there is indescribable joy in your heart. Without it, fellowship with God would have to be restored again. There is only one way we can take away the joy and joy that is within us.
Other than that, no one can touch your joy. Because the source of our joy is Jesus.
What is the only thing that can take that joy away? That's sin. It is a great loss for a saint to lose joy. The most pitiful person in this world is the person who has not been saved, but the person who has lost fellowship with God even after being saved is also a poor person. When the Lord saved us, He did not make us completely free from sin. But he made it impossible for us to enjoy it when we sin. I hope that you realize that fact and always stay away from sin and live a life full of joy.