A lot of us have spent a considerable part of our lives being enemies of God. Notice, I did not say we were God’s enemies, but spent our lives being enemies of God. Why do we consider ourselves enemies of God? It is all in our minds. (Col 1:21) 

God says our lives consisted of evil deeds (John 7:7). 

God says every motivation for all our works came from an evil perspective. (Genesis 6:5).

No one wants to have their evil deeds exposed. We love the darkness (John 3:19).

So rather than letting our deeds be exposed as evil, we make God our enemy. We make God out to be the bad guy. We will hide behind any excuse to keep from having our evil deeds exposed. Sometimes the best hiding place is hiding behind the god we create. You know the one! The god that doesn’t judge us, maybe others.

I am sure you have heard that God is a jealous God. He is jealous of the gods we have created, and because we have made Him our enemy. Because of our SIN, we have made our Loving and Gracious God out to be the bad guy. Not everyone does this, right? Some seek a relationship with the One True God, right? (Psalm53:2-3) 

God had a plan for His creation to be a reflection of Him. We were made in His Image to relate to Him and one another with His attributes. One sin turned His creation upside down. Rather than relating in a manner that glorifies God and one another, mankind invented the blame game so their evil deeds would not be exposed (at least in their mind). Adam blamed God for giving him the woman, and the woman blamed the serpent. Neither were willing to have their evil deeds exposed.

Nothing has changed, has it? What about evolution? We have a tendency to talk about evolution in a positive sense. Mankind will evolve into something better. We want there to be some system that takes us away from having our evil deeds exposed. Maybe time will take care of it? Time is not on mankind’s side. We are evolving, but away from something better. What started out as simple disobedience in eating a specific fruit, has turned into an all-out war against God. We are not only acting in ways that are contrary to God’s attributes, we are choosing deliberately, knowing our motives are evil, to show God we think He is our enemy.

That is who the world thinks they are – Enemies of God

Something has to change or man is doomed to an existence without a relationship with God. Let me repeat something I suggested earlier. Man chooses to treat God as an enemy, not the other way around. God is not going to have a personal relationship with someone who constantly sins and considers Him the enemy. Man has got a dilemma. One, he sins and two, his sin forces him to consider God an enemy. (Rom 7:15-24) 

Man has got a two-fold problem. He is incapable of not sinning and his sin forces him to think of God as an enemy. If man is ever going to have a relationship with God, both problems have to be addressed.

By the Grace of God, He sent His Son to take care of both problems. Jesus, while He was on earth, addressed both problems. I am going to take them in reverse order.

Sin forcing man to think he is an enemy of God. Jesus said He came for this reason to testify to the Truth. What truth? That He and the Father are one. If Jesus loves us, then the Father loves. It was the Father’s love for us that had Him send Jesus to reveal this Truth. God does not consider us enemies, but loves us and wants to redeem us.

Now there is the first issue. We can’t stop sinning. It is sin that has the death penalty attached to it. For the wages of sin is death. God sent His Son to pay that penalty for man’s sin. He who was without sin, paid the penalty. Now not only have we been pardoned, but there is no reason to believe we are enemies if God anymore. We can accept the Truth Christ came to bring about the Father’s love for us. In Christ, there is no condemnation.

There is another part to the Good News, but I will get into the Holy Spirit another time. Contemplate on the following verse.

1 Corinthians 2:11 (NASB)

For who among men knows the thoughts of a man, except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.