I am glad that God didn\u2019t remove the reminders of our sin from the Bible. Those reminders are like statues that stand in public places to remind us of things that should not be done again. Only if we think that humans are perfect and without sin would we think to destroy these because, as some think, sin must be society\u2019s fault, not ours. But if, as we know, men are sinners, we would be careful to make the statues of our past sins prominent as reminders of what can happen if we again neglect the truth of inborn sin. Adam\u2019s fall and sin in the garden; Noah\u2019s drunkenness; David\u2019s adultery and murder; Solomon\u2019s serial fornication at the end of his life; Elijah\u2019s fleeing from Jezebel in abject fear; all of these and more stand as unfailing statuaries of potential sin. The monuments of Israel\u2019s sins in the hallway of 1 Corinthians chapter 10 are prominent reminders of a nation\u2019s failures: the golden calf at Mt. Sinai; Balaam\u2019s sin when 23,000 died; the fiery serpents that came as a plague because of murmuring; the utter failure at Kadesh Barnea when all over 20 years old eventually died in the wilderness. Paul at the foot of these statues wrote, \u201cNow these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition.\u201d These are the kinds of things that unbelief would tear from the Bible if God would permit. But God pronounced woe on anyone who would take these reminders from His Word. Woe to any nation that removes the reminders of their negative history. They are doomed to repeat them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am glad that God didn\u2019t remove the reminders of our sin from the Bible. Those reminders are like statues that stand in public places to remind us of things that should not be done again. Only if we think that humans are perfect and without sin would we think to destroy these because, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[233,1],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-8380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-uncategorized","tag-democracy-government-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n