Those of us who are born again, upon hearing “all have sinned” we ought to be falling out of chairs at this very moment worshiping God and giving thanks to God that he has saved us from such a terrible thing.
And those of you who are not born again, who treat the gospel as something common, or maybe have gathered unto yourself a sort of gospel that doesn’t change life. You ought to fall on your face in fear knowing that if God doesn’t move on your behalf, you will stand before him in your sin and that is a most terrible estate.
“All have sinned.”Why don’t we tremble? Why don’t we know how terrible this is? We don’t know how much we have sinned in the same way a fish doesn’t know how wet it is. We were born in sin. We were conceived in sin. We were born in a fallen world of sin. The only thing we have ever known is sin.
Our society, as Scripture says, drinks down iniquity like it was water. We also live in a land that is rampant of the ignorance of God. They have no knowledge of God.
They don’t know who God is. We treat him as though he were some sort of Santa Claus or a buffoon of a grandfather and we do not understand that he is the Lord of lords and King of kings.
Do you not know that hell is of infinite duration? The primary reason is because every sin you commit is committed against an infinitely worthy and good God.
Listen to the way we speak about sin. We talk about sin against man. We talk about sin even against nature and animals and trees. But no one realizes that All sin is ultimately sin against God.
How we view and talk about (or neglect to talk about) sin expresses our knowledge or our ignorance of it’s absolute devastation upon man and it’s abhorrence to God. Thereby making the preaching of the Cross irrelevant, or the only means by which a Just, Holy and Righteous God could effectively deal with His wrath against sin.
Mark Cowan
Watchmen On The Pod 