When Did God Know Sin?

Psalm 32

Many equate doing anything wrong with sin. Any of you who read my last email post know I did wrong in my spelling and sentence constructions. Whew! I was embarrassed when I read that email. I apologize to all of you who had to labor through those points. Actually for all my failures when I fail to successfully proof my posts. But did I sin? Only to the grammatical proofing department. When talking of Biblical sin is much more and much deeper that just a typographical or grammatical error. We're told that sin is a transgression, going over, around, any which way but through the law. Whose law? God's law. And before God's law was given people practiced doing things right and that became a law unto themselves (1 John 3:4; Romans 2:14).

So what is so earth shattering about sin? Why does it seem that all of what is good seems so fragile because of sin? The basic concept of sin is missing the mark. Some say it's like having a 6 foot bullseye target ten miles away and you take your basic bow and arrow, aim, and shoot at the target, hopefully in the right direction. With your standard bow and arrow even the best of archers cannot make that shot. Even the best archer will land 9 miles and at least 4500 feet short of that target. God's holiness is far beyond that in any imagination of man. If we talk of purity we fall short. Sin, that missing the mark is found in each of us passed down from man to man since Adam's disobedience.

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death went over all men: in who all men have sinned.

Romans 5:12 GNV

It took one man to break that holy relationship with God. God told man he had everything he needed to populate the world and exercise proper dominion over it all. Man walked with God daily in a good, loving relationship with his Maker. And God warned man to not eat of the fruit of a tree. It wasn't as if there was poison in the fruit, but there was poison in disobedience. If you eat that fruit you will now have knowledge that you no longer have done right, but you know you have done evil. That evil separates just like death. It is death. It is the death of your relationship with your Maker, your God, that Holy God who made you in His image, in His likeness. You will break something you can never fix. Therefore you will be destined under your own effort to ever and always be separated from your God, the only source of holiness, the only source of happiness, the only source of ability think right, do right, and be right. And then Adam did.

Only a perfect God can reconcile from such devastation. There is nothing man can or could do to right such a heinous wrong and an afront to a perfectly holy God. Such a devastating separation that can someday be ever permanent, complete separation from the source of any and everything good, forever, never an opportunity to be made right. Only a holy God could change that and make a way. But that God somehow had to become a perfect man as Adam was originally made. That man had to face being temped with the very depths of human deprivation and still remain sinless, never missing the mark, being always what Adam was made to be. So what needs to be done? What has been done? The following Scriptures speak for themselves.

For there is no difference: for all have sinned, and are deprived of the glory of God,

Romans 3:23 GNV

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it unto you to offer upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls: for this blood shall make an atonement for the soul.

Leviticus 17:11 GNV

For he hath made him to be sin for us, which knew no sin, that we should be made the righteousness of God in him.

2 Corinthians 5:21 GNV

Whom God hath set forth to be a reconciliation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness, by the forgiveness of the sins that are passed,

Romans 3:25 GNV

Who his own self bare our sins in his body on the tree, that we being dead to sin, should live in righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

1 Peter 2:24 GNV

And he is the reconciliation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 John 2:2 GNV

Jesus Christ fully God/fully man had to be sinless, remain sinless, and take the wrath each and every person whoever is living, has lived, and will live deserves because of their being deprived of, falling far short of the glory of God. That's the significance and seriousness, what is so earth shattering, life shattering about sin.

So, how did God know sin? In Psalm 22 we read the cry from the cross, My God, My God, why have you forsaken me? It is on that cross our sins were laid on Jesus Christ, the punishment, the wrath of God for our sins was placed on Jesus Christ fully God/fully man who became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross (Philippians 2). If ever there was a time Jesus prayed Psalm 32 it was within Himself on the cross knowing that wrath making that separation. But what made that so important at the time He recognized that need it was immediately for the sin, the separation from His Father for the billions who have ever lived, are alive now, and are yet to live, for each and everyone, including me. While yet we might gripe and complain (not unlike the children of Israel) when what He HAS done for us far exceeds our petty complaints.

It was hard for me reading this Psalm with "would Jesus ever pray this psalm" in my mind recognizing how often I must pray this, often enough it seems multiple times daily.