Good Friday Sermon Part 1
relationship to God is like that of St. Paul's when he said he didn't love God, or that of St. Augustine when he said he was plagued by the truth that he didn't want God to be God, or Martin Luther when he confessed that there were many time that he hated God.
We as the human family have separated ourselves from God. We deny him, we defy him, we ignore him and deep down in the depths of our beings we hate him because we don't want God to be God!
We want to be our own God!
And what is God's response to all of this. In the play,"Green Pastures", "God is pictured looking down upon the earth with his hands clasped behind his back and he is torn between his justice and His mercy, between His anger and His love, between His vengeance and His compassion; one moment determining to be through with man, leaving him to his own devices and the next wanting to lift man up in His arms and hold him to His heart."
As we contemplate the cross of Calvary this evening we witness the battle in God's heart . But this battle was fought not with us, as it should have been, but in reality it was fought between God. God punished his son for the sins of the human race, because the compassion of God could not punish us.
The cross is the symbol of the constant battle that is taking place in our lives. We struggle with the love of God for us, and the brokenness we face in this world. We struggle with the unanswerable question; if God did love us so much that he punished his son why do we still encounter all those circumstances in life that separate us from God
Why do we encounter all those circumstances
in life that separate us from each other ,that remind us that our
lives do experience the cross of Calvary in all of its weakness, in
all of its pain, in all of its humanity. Part 2 http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/3325...
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