Presumptuous Sin

  “Presumptuously” is overstepping one’s bounds or authority. The ultimate presumptuous sin was the original sin - being “as gods’ (Gen 3:5) which centuries later resulted in judging God and crucifying Him. Yes, crucifying Jesus was “presumptive sin” in that his killers presumed to be above God. I have written before how presumptive sin judged, convicted, and hung Jesus. (Deut 21:18-23). It is imperative that you now look up those verses and see how wrongly Jesus was judged. Of course, we know that those who pick up the first stone are those who judge first, failing to judge themselves by the same metric (John  8:7).
  All “sin” may be presumptive sin. In fact, “accidental sin” only makes sense in that God does nothing by accident, and people who portend to be God do sins by accident because they are not really gods! The root verb for “sin” is “to be.” It is noted that “to be” and “I am” are different tenses of “existing.” God is “I Am” and any pretender to God’s throne is “to be” – to be as gods. The fact that sinners value their own existence over God makes them unrighteous. It’s ultimately not the infraction that damns, but the presumption of authority! Standing under the Serpent's tree undermined God’s Tree of Life. Adam and Eve presumed to know more about life and death than God. They quickly found that they misunderstood death entirely! Not to be outdone, the Jews misunderstood death when they crucified Jesus. They only killed God’s Flesh, but throughout the transition from life unto death, the Spirit lived on. When it was finished, Jesus gave up the Ghost.  (John 19:30).
  It turned out that God’s Flesh was unwilling to die, but God’s Spirit was willing. On the other hand, God’s Flesh died but His Spirit lived on. That puts a new outlook on “The Spirit is willing but the Flesh is weak (Mat 26:41). Since people were created in God’s image, that passage applies to Jesus as well. Jesus’s flesh was as valuable to him, as ours is to us. However, he was willing to give up his flesh although it agonized him. He understood that his Spirit would never die. Adam and Eve failed to understand that their souls were immortal but their flesh would not be if they disobeyed. They presumed wrongly, that like God, they would not die.
  Then the Jews who demanded Jesus be crucified presumed wrongly that he would die! Don’t you see? All sin is essentially presumptive sin! Each time people sin, they presume that they are gods. They know better than God about what they are about to do, behave, or be attitudinal about. Christians who sin assume that God will overlook it by grace. They make a presumption about God’s grace. Dietrich Bonnhoeffer called presumptive sin “cheap grace” in that if people truly love God, they would love His Will. We pray, “Thy Will be done; in Earth as in Heaven” then do our own will.
  Our “To Be” is placing our will over God’s Will and being presumptuous about our own attributes. We were created in the image of God, but God made it clear… we are not gods! We merely presume “to be” gods.  Who else makes that presumption?

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation. (Isa 14:12-13)

  You can see from that passage where Lucifer presumes to be God. In royal courts, those who crave the crown of king due to inheritance, are said to be, “pretenders to the throne.” Lucifer’s presumptive sin was pretender to God’s throne. Lucifer has mastered presumptiveness, and he is for sinner’s their “father the Devil” (John 8:44). Presumptive beings are adversarial to God. Lucifer, because he is presumptive, is called “Satan” – the adversary. As pretender to the throne, that would be Lucifer’s title.
  Satan presumes to be God. People were created in the image of God, but with sin, were more in the image of Satan. Lucifer wanted “To Be” and so do his children – those living for sin, or better said, living “To Be” – to be superior to God. That is implied with the verse, “Doing what is right in our own eyes” Deut 12:8). When people sin, they want “to be” as gods. As such, they presume to be gods.
  When Jesus was about to die, he told Pilate that those who delivered him to death committed the greater sin than those who would kill him (John 19:11). The killers presumed to have authority, not only over Pilate, but God Himself! They failed to understand that they were not gods, and that Jesus was crucified only because he wanted to redeem mankind.
  Jesus told Pilate that he really had no power, that only God did because He was allowing Himself to die. Essentially, Jesus was telling Pilate that he was not God, and his existence was only by the grace of God. Jesus crucified Pilates’s “To Be” right there on the spot and slammed my “To Be” and yours, because by sinning, we all delivered Jesus to Pilate for crucifixion. Think not?

If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. (Heb 6:6)

  To crucify Jesus “afresh” (again) means that sinners (everybody) crucified Jesus the first time. I wasn’t there, but I crucified Jesus vicariously by presuming “To Be” greater than him in the free use of my will. You crucified Jesus as well, so don’t breath so easily!
  Now for the key verses:

And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. (Deu 17:12)

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. (Psalm 19:13)

But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. (2 Pet 2:10)

  We can see from the last verse that presumptuous sinning is self-willed wherein people do what they want rather than what God Wills they do. “Self-willed” is exercising that attitude that our “To Be” is more important than “I Am!” In other words, our god of self is greater than the True God. “Born again” is coming to understand that “I Am” is not us! We diminish ourselves as we magnify God. That is crucifying ourselves which Freud called our “ego.” Note that in the Greek, “I Am” is “Ego Eimai.” Jesus said outright in the gospels Ego Eiami forty-eight times, and the Jews crucified him for saying that! We think that we are Ego Eimai all the time, and must crucify that attitude. Our Ego Eimai must be trimmed to size!

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. (Mat 16:24)

  Denying ourselves is crucifying sin in us – the “To Be” which sinners have chosen over “I Am.”  We can only do that attitudinally, but Jesus did it spiritually. His Holy Ghost delivered all of our sin (To Be) to Hell. That’s all our pride, self-esteem, and presumptions that he delivered to the Devil in his abode. When Jesus delivered our sins to Satan, it was Satan who vicariously died on his tree! Judas Iscariot, entered into by Satan, represented the death of Lucifer. He was not “To Be” and sin (to be) became ineffective that day.
  In Deuteronomy 7:12 above, it can be seen that those who die presumptuously, maintaining their identity of sinner (To Be), shall be judged and die! Understand death; the flesh will die immediately but the soul will be forever dying!
  Psalm 19:13 indicates that “presumptuous sin” is having dominion over God. We were created to have dominion over the Earth and the other animals, but never God! (Gen 1:26). Then what did Adam do? He let Eve have dominion over him, and then he presumed to have dominion over God!
  Breaking commandments is not mankind’s problem; presuming authority over God is! God’s Will is written on stone for perpetuity, yet we break the stones each time we exercise our will to sin (To Be.) You see, sin is not the problem, but are presumptions "to be" as gods is!