I Just Wanted to Get Away! #10

Friday, September 19, 2025

“And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself” (Genesis 3:10 KJV).

Will sinners “get away” from accountability before God?

Romans 3:4 forms part of God’s case against sinful man as presented in the opening three chapters of Romans: “God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.” Although Paul alludes to Psalms, the Holy Spirit through him changed the original quote slightly so as to view the same situation from a different angle. In Psalm 51:4, it was: “Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.” Psalms has God judging the sinner (“when thou judgest”), whereas Romans has the sinner judging God (“when thou art judged”).

When God accuses the sinner of wrongdoing, the sinner seeks to question/challenge/discredit God by judging Him. That is, as God judges the sinner, God is righteous or fair and thus cleared of all wrongdoing. The sinner, not God, has the problem. God has not falsely indicted the sinner, or made a big deal out of nothing—yet the sinner falsely accuses God of inappropriate conduct (“You are a liar!”). This clever reversal is nothing but a repeat of Genesis 3:12… blame-shifting so God appears to be at fault!

Go to Romans 3:19,20, where guilty man shuts his mouth (for he likes to prattle on and on about his “goodness”): “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” The Law of Moses serves as an indisputable standard of the glory of God: everything that He is, we are not. Here is man’s fundamental flaw. What the Law says not to do, we do… and what the Law says to do, we do not do. Here is sin….