I Just Wanted to Get Away! #11

Saturday, September 20, 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?

Observe 2 Corinthians 4:3,4: “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” Generally, non-Christians do not believe they are “lost” (gone aside from God’s path, doomed to eternal death or everlasting judgment). They suppose that, as long as they participate in some religious system, they will somehow “slip into Heaven.” Similarly, Saul of Tarsus “had confidence in the flesh [human performance].” After all, he belonged to God’s religion (Judaism). He was a Pharisee too—a strict man obsessed with rites, rituals, ceremonies, and commandments. Saul eventually became a believer in Jesus Christ… and was commissioned as His Apostle Paul!

Read his testimony in Philippians 3:3-9: “For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:….”

Religious people today need to follow Paul’s example and quit trying to “get away” from God’s standard of rightness….