A glorious, loving, perfect, powerful, holy, just, and merciful God created everything that you and I know.  Adam in Eden committed treason against this God.  In one act he demonstrated to God that he knew better than the most wise Creator God.  He actually believed that God was keeping him from what was best, that his way would lead to greater depth, pleasure, and happiness.

You and I were born into Adam’s line.  We are born diseased with Sin, and bent toward rebellion – trusting ourselves over this most wise God.  We seek first our kingdom, our glory, and our way.

This act of treason subjected all of mankind to futility.  The just penalty for treason.  Death would reign and mankind would perish.

God always had a plan.  He would demonstrate His great love.  He would rescue, redeem, and save mankind from the disease that would ravage and destroy him.

Job 38:2-4,12

Who is this that darkens my counsel
with words without knowledge?
Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.

Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.

Have you ever given orders to the morning,
or shown the dawn its place?

Romans 9:20-22

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?

The rights we have as clay is receiving our just punishment – futility, destruction, and death. Do we really want want we deserve?  The Gospel means ‘victorious news’  – news of victory.  God sent Jesus (God in the flesh) to ransom us – to stand in our place.  He took upon himself our death penalty.  He took mankind’s guilt and punishment and died so we could live.  God’s greatest act of justice and mercy perfectly reconciled in Jesus.

The potter (the most wise God) made you for a purpose, and who are you clay (man) to think you know what’s best?