Wesley Huff

Even when I do them, I don't want to lie anymore.

Like I see the harm that causes and the brokenness that it creates.

And so even if I'm still breaking the law of God, right?

So in the book of James that I mentioned, there's this part where James says if you break one rule in the law, it's as if you've broken them all.

And I've sometimes used this illustration of it's like you're hanging off a cliff on a linked chain, right?

If you cut any of those links, you're going to fall, right?

It's no longer holding you.

That's kind of the thinking that I think James is getting at when he writes that.

You could read it as a setup.

I think more so what's going on.

I think what strikes me as more amazing is that God did it anyways and he didn't hit the restart button.

I think ultimately – and this might sound like a cop-out to some, but maybe God knows something we don't.

And that he has reasons for allowing evil that maybe we don't understand and can't comprehend because he is God.

There's an interesting thing in both the book of Revelation and in one of the letters of Peter where it basically says from before the foundation of the world was laid, the lamb was slain.

So Jesus was crucified.

That the cross, that whole –

Bringing back people in unity and relationship with God via this act of the only innocent person who ever lived being murdered on a cross.

A great act of evil accomplishing a lot of good.

Once again, not the way I would do it if I was God.

There's all sorts of things that we think, if I was God, I'd do it like this.