The word collision is not a nice word. Crashes, car crashes are coming to my mind, when I hear the word. But a collision is also “the conflict of opposed ideas, wishes, attitudes, etc.”, according to The Concise Collins Dictionary.

We are opposed to God. The truth about man is that he is not only separated from God, but he hates God. We by nature, as we are born into this world, fight against God. We are enemies of God. Our minds are alienated from God. We are striving against our creator.

We are on a collision course with God. When did this collision course start? It started with the Fall in the Garden of Eden. We are sinners.

I am emphasising the collision course because we are hearing so much about the repairs, the restoration, the healing of the broken relationship. We are hearing so much about grace.

Dr Lloyd – Jones is well known to evangelicals, and while in London many years ago it was my privilege to hear him preach at Westminster Chapel, and this is what he says in one of his books: 

“IT IS BECAUSE MAN HAS AN INADEQUATE CONCEPTION OF SIN THAT HE HAS AN INADEQUATE CONCEPTION OF THE GRACE OF GOD.”