OREOS IN A FALLEN WORLD

O-R-E-O the delicious and addicting black and white chocolate cream filled cookie is now weighing in on gay rights.  We are a society that receives our ethical, moral and Biblical standards from movie stars, politicians, some pastors who wish they were movie stars and now from a cookie. 

Red and Yellow, Black and White we all have inherited a nature of sin and due to that sinful state we have minds, wills and souls that need rescuing from utter despair.  One theologian said it like this “It may be claimed that the Fall narrative (“In Adam all die” – 1 Cor. 15:22) gives the only convincing explanation of the perversity of human nature that the world has ever seen.  Pascal said that the doctrine of original sin seems an offense to reason, but once accepted it makes total sense of the entire human condition.”  

So in this state of depravity we all must find our only hope in God’s word; “Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.  We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.  For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.  So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.  Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.” (Romans 6:8-12) Our sinful nature being our state of missing the mark or rebellion against God’s holy and righteous will, must be crucified with Christ.  This does not mean we must never sin again in order to receive eternal life, it means we must seek repentance from missing the mark, realizing that we are unable to cleanse ourselves from our offenses toward a holy God, we must give our transgressions to Christ who has taken our sins to the cross and paid the penalty in our place.  Then and only then can we be transformed into new creations filled with life, where we are given a new heart that seeks to do the will of God.  The prayer must be that God gives you a new heart and a new life in Christ Jesus that then seeks direction from his Holy Word, not an Oreo cookie.