Men set up for themselves an idol of their own imagination, instead of the true God and then fall down and worship it.
Every natural man is an enemy to God as He is revealed in His Word. The infinitely holy, just, powerful, and true God is not the God whom he loves, but the God whom he loathes! The Pagans finding that they could not be like God in holiness, made their gods like themselves in filthiness; and thereby they show what sort of a god the natural man would have. God is holy and just; can an unholy creature love His unspotted holiness?
There is not a man, who is wedded to his lusts, as all the unregenerate are but would desire to blot out the God of justice. Can the malefactor love his condemning judge? Can a heinous sinner love a just and holy God? No, he cannot!
Men naturally would rather have a blind idol than the all-seeing God! They no more love the all-seeing, everywhere present God than the thief loves to have the judge witness to his evil crimes. If it could be carried by votes, God would be voted out of the world; for the language of the carnal heart is, "Leave us alone! We have no desire to know Your ways!"
[Thomas Boston]
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John 7:7 … The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
John 15:24-25 … If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
Romans 1:30 … Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Job 21:14 … Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Mark 15:13-14 … And they cried out again, Crucify him. Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.❤
