Celebration of the Death Culture
When sin entered the world, through Adam, death came as the promised judgment by our righteous and holy God (Gen 3). The wages of sin is death (Rom 6:23).
The immediate children of Adam, Cain and Abel, became representative of what we see in humanity, today (Gen 4). In this mise en scene Abel feared God, knowing his guilt before the just Judge of all the earth, and he offered up right sacrifices before God. Cain was of the evil one (1 Jn 3:12). The evil one is the devil (1 Jn 5:19). Cain, like his father the devil (Jn 8:44; 1 Jn 3:10), did evil deeds (Jn 3:19). He was the father of the unrighteous line of humanity. He murdered Abel, who was replaced in the line of the righteous by Seth (Gen 4:25).
The righteous and the unrighteous have lived together from that time forward. The war between them has been lopsided because the multitudes have been unrighteous, while the righteous have mostly been a remnant throughout history (Rom 11:5). The line of the righteous almost met extinction during the days of Noah, a preacher of righteousness (Gen 6–9; 2 Pet 2:5). God assessed humanity (Gen 6:5) and brought global destruction by Deluge.
Universal destruction is coming again; but at this future event, God will judge the wicked with fire (2 Pet 3:10–12). The problem with sinful humanity will never be resolved, as long as sin reigns over its chattel (Rom 5:21).
The god of this world (2 Cor 4:4) is judged, already, and all of creation awaits his sentencing and banishment to hell and the lake of fire (Rev 20:10, 14–15).
Sinful men love sin (Jn 3:19). They have twisted pleasures in their perversions. The homosexual pedophile loves his exploitation of children. The serial killer abortionist delights in severing the limbs of babies in the womb. The human trafficking pimp boasts in the number of people enslaved in his sphere of power. The government official is exuberant with her windfall of wealth, through doling out favors to cheaters and insider trading.
The extent of sin is often underestimated by the natural man. Sinful people, deluded in self-pride, actually imagine themselves to be good people (Rom 3:10–12). They dress themselves for war or put on religious costumes to set themselves apart from those they look down upon. They parade in pomp, boasting with pride in their accomplishments.
Man is all but oblivious to his daily diet of sins. His eyes sin as he looks. His thoughts are focused on sin. His heart is darkened and deceitful (Jer 17:9), and this is evident by the words of his restless tongue (Jas 3). His feet are swift to shed blood. In the eyes of the unrepentant, the démodé preacher of righteousness is loathed for exposing the evil of the sons of Adam (Eph 5:11).
Cultures that celebrate sin will also glory in death. When God turns a nation over to a reprobate mind, it is on a course of self-destruction (Rom 1:18–32). The reason is that sin is like leprosy, it slowly destroys the fabric of its host. Righteousness exalts a nation (Prv 14:34); the wicked can only praise God by demonstrating the futility of godless rebellion against the Almighty Sovereign Lord (Eph 4:17). It was for this purpose that God made the reprobate (Prv 16:4; Rom 9:22), so that He might be glorified in His just judgment of them.
People are dying in America each day because of ignorance. It is ignorant to suppress the truth of God (Rom 1:18). It is foolishness to deny the righteous One (Ps 14:1; 53:1) and His impeccable Law of righteousness. When demented fools lead, the people will groan and some will perish. Still, the preacher and his warning is censored like the prophets of old, who were sent to the people but who would not be heard.
Sinners must be confronted for their ongoing, unchecked enmity against the King of glory (Ps 24; Rom 1:30). The end of every sinner is destruction (Ps 104:35). The day of judgment is coming (Mt 24–25; Mk 13; Lk 21; Rev 19:11–21), as seen in the isolated displays of God’s righteous wrath against the unrighteous and their evil deeds. God is angry with the wicked all day, every day (Ps 7:11).
As in the days of Noah (c. 3,500 B.C.), people were unprepared for the sudden judgment of God against them (Mt 24–25). The ungodliness and unrighteousness of the wicked is always the object of God’s hatred and wrath (Ps 5:5; 11:5; Rom 1:18). Man gets what he deserves for his public pride parades and for his secret sins done in the privacy of darkness.
The call of the righteous is always for all people everywhere to turn from their wicked ways (Acts 17:30). It is always a call for confession of one’s slavery to sin (Rom 6:6). It is a call for the convicted and awakened to come to Christ Jesus, the only Savior of sinners (Acts 4:12). The good news is that the elect, called have always obeyed the call to come to Jesus in repentance and faith (Acts 5:31; 16:31), and they always will because of irresistible grace worked in them by the Holy Spirit (Jn 6:37, 44; 10:3–4).
The transformation of the one who previously reveled with the rebels is the evidence of God’s salvific power (Rom 1:16–17; Titus 3:5). God is able to turn the wicked wretch into an obedient, adopted child of His own (Rom 8:15, 23; Eph 1:4–5). From the practice and celebration of sin, the new creature is born again to a spiritual life of holiness (Jn 3:1–8; 2 Cor 5:17; 1 Pet 1:15–16). The old things of deplorable shame have passed away and new things have come.
Friend, forsake and abhor evil (Rom 12:9). Trust Christ and watch His wisdom and power transform your life (Rom 12:2; 1 Cor 1:24). He alone is willing and able do what is required in the necessary domain transfer (Col 1:13), the heart transplant (Ezek 36:26). May today be the day of your salvation from celebrating sin and death, to celebrating Jesus Christ, the life of God and our eternal life.
David Norczyk
Spokane Valley, Washington
April 1, 2022
