STATION 16: SIN KILLS GOD

There is this being in the universe. This being has always been here. This being is self-existent without any cause for predicate whatsoever. That being we call God.

This being, who must be a person, because all personalities come from Him, must also be both he and she, because all males and females have come from Him/Her. I know we are not used to talking about God this way in the church, but I cannot change the facts of the universe just because they go against our current conventions.

God is the only reality, and God wants to live through each of us. He had placed Adam and Eve in the Garden to walk with them and have fellowship with Him. His knowledge, His beauty, His love poured through them constantly in an integrated oneness. They were created in His image to flow and dwell in absolute perfect harmony with God.

God had extended, if you will, His nature, His attributes, and His personality, through the physical creation and through Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve lived in accordance with that verse that we talked about in Galatians. It wasn't "they" who lived as small little egos, but rather it was God who was living through them. Each breath that they breathed was done by the grace and power of God.

God lived through them. Through sin, that relationship was broken. That holy relationship was much like a leaf on a tree being cut off. Part of the tree died. The wages of sin is death, the loss of relationship.

What we have on the Cross is God, in the flesh, dying. Jesus took upon himself the sins of the world. What we see, when we look at Mt. Calvary, is sin killing God. As we discussed in previous sections, everything comes from God. Everything passes through God and everything returns to God. The only reality is God. We can live and will live eventually with the knowledge that we do not exist, but it is only God who lives through us.

This is why the Bible gives us this incredibly powerful image of the body of Christ. We are all cells in the body of Christ. Sin kills God. Sin takes His finger and gives it gangrene and has it rot off His hand. Sin takes His gall bladder and fills it full of cancer. Sin takes His eye and fills it with a poison so that it can no longer see. The body of Christ consists of millions of individual cells. Every single human being is called to be a part of God's body. But through sin, the "cell" in Christ's body whom we are is sick & needs to be broken off in order to retain the health of the whole.

So, if you want to look at sin, if you want to see what sin really is like and what sin does, look at the Cross. You will see God dying. Sin kills God.

God can always be resurrected. That is the proclamation. No matter how dark, no matter how evil, no matter how despondent or hopeless the situation may seem, God is always able to reach in and transform the situation. God dies, yes, but God is always resurrected.

Jesus hung and He bled and He died, but the ground could not hold Him. So too you, no matter how abject your sin, can be forgiven, can have that sin die and can be resurrected to an infinite life of Godliness. The body of Christ, with its rotting finger, can miraculously have that finger restored to perfect health. The poisonous gall bladder can be cleansed. The poison inside of the eye can be drained, so that God is restored to absolute total perfection.

There is nothing that can be done to God to stop that. There is nothing that can happen inside of the creation to prevent God from being all in all. If I am an author of a story, no matter how horrible I may make the characters behave, no matter how bloody the story winds up or how many people wind up dead, I am always resurrected. I am always fully, completely healthy. So too, no matter what happens in this creation, God remains God. He is forever holy, healthy and perfect, and therefore always retains the ability to resurrect.

The world did its worst to God. It took Him, beat Him, spat on Him, nailed Him to a cross, stabbed Him in the side, jeered and rejoiced as He died. That did not kill Him. It killed His body. It killed that part of Him which had become placed inside the creation. But, it did not finish Him, because the eternal side, the creator side, the Godhood side cannot be affected by what goes on in this world.

Sin kills God, but God can always be resurrected. No matter how big of a mess you make of your life, there is always resurrection. The body of Christ can forever be healed.

This is the source of great beauty, the source of great love. I recommend that you find a crucifix. Find the most lifelike one that you can, with Jesus hanging upon the Cross. Place it predominantly in your home, and meditate upon it constantly. I understand the Protestant fears and discomfort with a crucifix, because Jesus is not still on the Cross. Nevertheless, there is an immense amount to be learned from that image, because that is sin. That is what our sin does.

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