Confronting Our Human Nature

“It is not difficult in our world to get a person interested in the message of the Gospel; it is terrifically difficult to sustain the interest. Millions of people in our culture make decisions for Christ, but there is a dreadful attrition rate. Many claim to have been born again, but the evidence for mature Christian discipleship is slim. In our kind of culture anything, even news about God, can be sold if it is packaged freshly; but when it loses its novelty, it goes on the garbage heap. There is a great market for religious experience in our world; there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue, little inclination to sign up for a long apprenticeship in what earlier Christians called holiness.”

“Hell is still hot, heaven's still real, sin's still wrong and the Bible is God’s Word"

COMPREHENDING OUR NATURE

Romans 7:7 AV

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

Psalm 19:7 AV

7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

1 Timothy 1:8 AV

8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

The Law Expresses the Will and Nature of God

The Law Exposes Our Sin

The Law Shows Us Our Need for a Savior

Proverbs 14:12 AV

12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

THE CAUSE OF OUR NATURE

Ephesians 6:11–12 AV

11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Galatians 5:17 AV

17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

THE CURE FOR OUR NATURE