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0:00we resume this evening our consideration
0:03of the biblical doctrine of original
0:06sin we began our consideration of this
0:09uh Doctrine last Friday evening but it's
0:13such a great and theast subject we were
0:16only able to deal with a portion of it
0:19we're considering in general the
0:21consequences of Adam's sin Adam's
0:25original sin and transgression which led
0:29to his thought
0:30and in him and through him to the fall
0:33of the entire human race and having
0:35considered the consequences in Adam
0:38himself and the consequences which
0:40befell him
0:41immediately we then went on thus to this
0:44consideration of the effect of that upon
0:47the progeny of
0:49Adam now we saw that this subject of
0:52original sin is divided into two main
0:54sections or if you like there are two
0:56main aspects to this matter of original
1:01sin the first is original guilt and it
1:06was with that we spent our time towards
1:09the end last Friday original guilt we
1:13are all guilty held guilty for that
1:17first sin of Adam it is imputed to us
1:21put to our account we are held in that
1:24way responsible for
1:27it now we come to consider the second
1:30aspect of this doctrine of original sin
1:34and that is what is known as original
1:38pollution because you remember the
1:40moment Adam sinned two things happened
1:44at once one was that he became guilty
1:47the second was that a change took place
1:49in him he was not the same as he was
1:52before changes took place in him which
1:55we have considered now the doctrine of
1:57original sin says that both those
1:59consequences that happen to Adam devolve
2:02upon us also so that we are guilty of
2:06original
2:08pollution as well as original
2:11sin now what do we mean by this term
2:16original
2:19pollution well it is something which can
2:22be described in this
2:24way first and foremost obviously it
2:26means in us what it meant in Adam an
2:29absence
2:30of that original
2:32righteousness which Adam had he was made
2:35in the image and likeness of God and the
2:37part of that was that he was a righteous
2:40person there was in him a righteousness
2:42corresponding to the righteousness of
2:44God himself his original righteousness
2:48he lost that so that all of us are born
2:52with an absence of original
2:57righteousness and not only that we are
3:00also born with the presence within us of
3:04positive evil there are those two
3:07aspects to this matter of
3:11pollution now we must examine it a
3:13little bit
3:14further this pollution from which we all
3:17suffer as the result of Adam's
3:21sin is not merely a
3:24disease it is a sinful and therefore a
3:27guilty condition it is merely that we
3:30are suffering from a disease but we are
3:33guilty because we are
3:35polluted it is something which must be
3:37regarded therefore partly in that legal
3:40manner another thing we must be careful
3:43to observe about it is
3:45this we must not say that it mean that
3:48it means that there has been a change in
3:50the substance of the
3:52Soul you may ask me what you mean by
3:55substance of the soul I mean by that
3:57it's Constitution we don't know what
3:59that comes to ution is as we have seen
4:02but we must be very careful not to say
4:04that it means any change in the soul as
4:09such uh it isn't a kind of substantial
4:12change in that way but it is rather a
4:14change along the lines which I shall
4:17proceed to
4:19elaborate but let us consider another
4:22negative before we do
4:23this we mustn't consider it either as
4:27merely a privation of something of
4:30something which we once
4:32had it isn't merely
4:36negative it doesn't just mean the
4:39absence of something in the
4:42soul no it is something which is
4:46positive it is a positive
4:49inherent disposition towards
4:53sin in other words this pollution is
4:56something
4:57active it isn't merely that we are
5:00not what we ought to be we are
5:03positively what we ought not to be now
5:06that came out of course last time when
5:07we were considering some of the biblical
5:10terms and definitions with regard to
5:14sin your modern psychologists don't like
5:17this they say what you call Sin of
5:20course is merely the absence of
5:21qualities you mustn't say men's
5:23positively bad what you mean is that
5:24he's not good sin is negative no the
5:27Bible says that sin is positive
5:30it isn't the absence of goodness it is
5:32the positive presence of evil and of
5:37Badness man not only is not what he
5:39ought to be he is what he ought not to
5:42be and that is something which we must
5:45emphasize because it's emphasized
5:47constantly as I'm going to show you in a
5:48few minutes in the scriptures
5:51themselves now then how does this
5:55condition this absence of original
5:58righteousness and the presence of of
5:59positive
6:01evil manifest itself in Fallen men how
6:05does it manifest itself in all of
6:08us and here again there is a two-fold
6:12division which is taught and emphasized
6:15right through the scriptures the terms
6:17generally used are these first it shows
6:21itself in what is called total
6:24depravity total
6:27depravity and let me give you the second
6:29so that you'll have your headings right
6:31the second is total
6:34inability total depravity total
6:38inability now let's look at these
6:41separately what do we mean by total
6:44depravity now here again is a term
6:46that's often
6:47attacked and indeed aless there are
6:50Christians who dislike the term almost
6:52invariably because they don't know the
6:53meaning of the term they attach a false
6:56meaning to the term and they say they
6:57can't abide this idea of total gravity
7:00if you ask them what they mean by it you
7:02will see that it's one or the other of
7:05these false definitions which I'm now
7:07about to give
7:09you we do not mean by total depravity
7:14one that every man is as thoroughly
7:17depraved as he can possibly be now
7:20you'll generally find that people who
7:21dislike the idea of total depravity
7:23Define it always in that way they think
7:25total depravity means that every man is
7:28as thoroughly bad and depraved as it's
7:30possible for him to be well no one has
7:33ever defined total depravity in that way
7:36I most certainly do not mean that by
7:37total depravity and the scriptures don't
7:39mean that by total
7:41depravity another thing we that we do
7:44not mean is this it does not even mean
7:48that man in his Fallen state has no
7:51innate knowledge of God because he has
7:55man is totally depraved and still he has
7:58a sense of God within him so total
8:02depravity doesn't mean that he has no
8:05innate knowledge of God at
8:08all another thing it doesn't mean is
8:11this it does not mean that men hasn't a
8:16conscience therefore it doesn't mean
8:18that men has no knowledge between good
8:20and
8:21evil men in a state of total depravity
8:24has a conscience and he does recognize
8:28the difference between good and
8:31evil but still I haven't finished my
8:34list of negatives total
8:37depravity does not mean that men is
8:39incapable of admiring
8:43virtue or incapable of disinterested
8:46feelings and actions you notice you see
8:49why I'm emphasizing these
8:52negatives says your modern psychologist
8:54and as I say unfortunately many
8:55Christians I can't abide this doctrine
8:58of total depre it can't be right to say
9:00look at many men who are not Christians
9:02they've got ideas of virtue they try to
9:04do good they may be idealistic quite so
9:07I say total depravity does not mean that
9:10a man doesn't recognize virtue or that
9:13he's incapable of disinterested feelings
9:16and actions it's not a part of the
9:19definition of total depravity at
9:21all and the last negative is
9:24this we do not mean by total depravity
9:29that every unregenerate person will
9:32indulge in every form of sin it doesn't
9:36mean that
9:38either well then says someone what does
9:40it mean well positively it means
9:45this that Fallen men or man in his
9:48Fallen
9:51condition has an inherently corrupt
9:56nature which extends to every part of
9:59his being every faculty of his soul and
10:04body it means that men as the result of
10:07the sin of Adam and of the
10:10Fall has this corrupt condition which
10:13applies to every faculty of his soul and
10:16of his
10:18body another thing it means is this that
10:22there is no observe the adjective there
10:25is no spiritual good in it oh yes
10:28there's a good good deal of natural good
10:30there's a good deal of natural morality
10:32he can recognize Pagan virtue yes but
10:36there is no spiritual good whatsoever in
10:39him that's what it does mean or if you
10:43like to elaborate it a bit more you can
10:44put it like
10:45this men in a state of total depravity
10:48every unregenerate men is at enmity
10:51against
10:52God that's a great characteristic always
10:55of total depravity he is naturally at
10:58eny against God and God's holy
11:02law and another way you can put it
11:04perhaps is that all his
11:07powers are misused and
11:11perverted Genesis 6:5 listen and God saw
11:16that the wickedness of men was great in
11:18the earth and that every imagination of
11:22the thoughts of his heart was only evil
11:27continually almost a amazing
11:29comprehensive statement I commend to you
11:32the study of Genesis 65 very
11:37carefully but listen to Psalm 51: 5
11:41Psalm 51 5th verse
11:44behold I was shapen in
11:47iniquity and in sin did my mother
11:51conceive
11:52me there again is an account of this
11:55total
11:57depravity shapen in iniquity ity
12:01conceive in
12:03sin listen to Jeremiah in the 17th
12:07chapter and the 9th
12:09verse the heart is deceitful above all
12:14things and desperately wicked who can
12:18know
12:19it then I suppose in many ways the
12:22classical statement of this doctrine of
12:24total depravity is the seventh chapter
12:27of the epistle to the Romans which we
12:29read together just now there it is in
12:33all its fullness with the variation in
12:36the use of the terms describing man as
12:40the result of sin I'm not concerned
12:43tonight particularly to go into an
12:44exposition of the seventh of Romans I'm
12:47simply concerned to show you that its
12:50definition of total
12:53depravity is a definition which is
12:55really complete and perfect
12:59but listen also to Romans 8 and verse
13:027 because the carnal mind is enmity
13:06against God for it is not subject to the
13:09law of God neither indeed can be another
13:13terrible statement of this total
13:16depravity but listen to Ephesians 4: 17
13:20and 18 another remarkable statement
13:23Ephesians 4:17 and
13:2518 He talks about the Gentiles being in
13:28the vanity of of their minds listen
13:30having the understanding
13:33darkened being alienated from the life
13:37of God through the ignorance that is in
13:39them because of the blindness of their
13:43heart what an astounding statement that
13:47is oh listen again to Paul in writing to
13:50Titus the third chapter and the third
13:52verse Titus
13:5533 for we ourselves also were sometimes
14:00foolish disobedient deceived serving
14:05diverse lusts and Pleasures living in
14:08Malice and envy
14:10hateful and hating one
14:14another what a terrible description of
14:17man's
14:18depravity as the result of
14:22sin but you notice that the scriptures
14:25in the some of the passages that I've
14:27here quoted to you now and in other
14:31places in order to make this thing
14:33perfectly plain and clear uses a number
14:37of terms and we must be familiar with
14:39these
14:41terms I trust that no one is bewildered
14:43as to why we are going into all this the
14:46obvious explanation is this no man can
14:49have a true or adequate understanding of
14:51the scriptural doctrine of salvation or
14:53no person can appreciate his or her own
14:55salvation truly unless such a person
14:59realizes the nature of the disease the
15:02condition out which we are to be saved
15:05by the
15:06gospel in other words we must understand
15:10the truth about ourselves in
15:13sin we can never really know the love of
15:15God until we realize this the way to
15:18measure the height of God's love is to
15:21first of all measure the depth of our
15:23own
15:24depravity as the result of the fall of
15:26men well now I said the scripture in
15:28order to bring this right home to us has
15:30a number of terms which it uses here are
15:32some of
15:33them it talks about the
15:36flesh it talks about
15:39concupisent it talks about the old
15:42men it talks about the law in our
15:46members it talks about the body of sin
15:49the body of
15:51death it talks about the carnal
15:55mind and there are other terms but those
15:58are the Chief
16:00terms and I think it is probably correct
16:03to say that in general all those terms
16:05really mean the same thing they're all
16:08descriptive of the same
16:11thing the important one I suppose the
16:15most important of all because it's the
16:16one that tends to be misunderstood most
16:18of all is the term
16:20flesh what does the scripture mean when
16:23he talks about the flesh as the Apostle
16:26uses it in the S of Romans and other
16:28places what is this scriptural term the
16:31flesh now you will find that the
16:33scripture uses the term flesh in three
16:36main
16:38ways the first is it uses the flesh to
16:41describe the body the physical
16:44body the second is it sometimes uses the
16:46flesh to stand for the whole
16:48person that no flesh should glory in his
16:52presence it doesn't mean that no
16:54physical body should it means no person
16:57no flesh should glory in his presence
17:00flesh sometimes means the entire
17:03personality a
17:06man the third meaning is what you may
17:08describe as the ethical meaning of
17:13Flesh or if you like even the spiritual
17:16meaning now this is the one which I'm
17:19anxious to deal with
17:21tonight but I can imagine somebody
17:23asking a question like this somebody may
17:26say you tell us that the word flesh is
17:28used
17:29in three different
17:31senses how am I to know which of the
17:33three senses is being used at any given
17:36point to which there is but one answer
17:39the only way to determine which of the
17:42three is used is I'm very happy to tell
17:45you not to have a knowledge of Greek but
17:46to know the
17:48context the Greek doesn't help you a bit
17:51it still uses the same term the only way
17:54in which we can tell which are the
17:56meanings the word flesh carries a any
17:59given point is the context and the
18:02context invariably if we allow it to
18:03speak to us will make it quite clear as
18:05to which is being used well now let's
18:08have a look at this ethical meaning of
18:10the term
18:11flesh it's very important to realize
18:14that it does not mean the
18:16body when it's used in this ethical way
18:20the trouble with us is that it's this
18:22flesh of
18:23ours this is the thing that causes all
18:25our trouble says the scripture that's
18:27the argument of Paul in that sth of
18:29Romans now when he says that he's not
18:31thinking of the
18:32body that's obviously important I think
18:35you'll see for this reason that the
18:37whole idea of monasticism was based on
18:40that false understanding they became
18:43monks and they half starved themselves
18:45and mutilated their bodies because they
18:48thought that sin resided in their
18:50physical frames and the thing to do was
18:52to keep the literal body down and if
18:54they did that they thought that all
18:56would be well now the scripture doesn't
18:57mean the body I can easily prove that in
18:59this
19:00way you read the lists that are given in
19:04various parts of the scripture with
19:06regard to the operations of the
19:09Flesh and you will find that some of the
19:11things mentioned have nothing whatsoever
19:13to do with the body take for instance
19:15Paul's famous list in the fifth chapter
19:19of the epistle to the Galatians where he
19:21puts it like this the works of the flesh
19:23he says are manifest which are these
19:25adultery fornication uncleanness
19:29lasciviousness all those are definitely
19:31connected with the flesh the physical
19:33part of of men but then he goes on
19:36idolatry witchcraft hatred variance
19:41emulations rth Strife
19:44seditions
19:46heresies well now heresy has got nothing
19:49to do with a man's physical frame at all
19:51it's a sin in the realm of the spirit
19:53but those are all cataloged together as
19:57works of the flesh
19:59which I think is enough in and of itself
20:01to prove that flesh when it's thus used
20:03in an ethical sense must never be
20:06associated with the physical frame with
20:08the animal part of our
20:11being or let me put that positively by
20:14putting it like this flesh in the
20:17scripture is almost invariably opposed
20:20to the spirit and especially to the Holy
20:23Spirit within us flesh and
20:26spirit what's it mean then well it means
20:30the working of that nature which we have
20:32inherited from
20:34Adam that which is entirely natural that
20:38which is entirely without the influence
20:40of the Holy Spirit upon
20:42it that's one definition but take
20:46another the Flesh in this ethical sense
20:49is the principle or the seat of the
20:51principle which in form human nature
20:55resists the Divine Law and Wars against
20:58the spirit the flesh lusteth against the
21:01spirit and the spirit lusteth against
21:03the flesh it's that principle in Fallen
21:07men which Wars against the spirit and
21:10resists the law of
21:12God or if you like a still simpler
21:15definition you can describe it as human
21:18nature in its estrangement from the
21:22Divine life and I think that's as good
21:25as
21:27any but perhaps strangely enough the
21:30best way to understand this term the
21:33flesh is to take that famous statement
21:35which our Lord made to Nicodemus you'll
21:38find it in John
21:403:6 that which is born of the flesh is
21:45flesh that which is born of the spirit
21:47is Spirit now our Lord when he says that
21:50which is born of the flesh is flesh is
21:52not simply thinking of our physical
21:54being now he's telling Nicodemus that
21:57he's still thinking in a fleshly manner
22:00still thinking after the flesh what is
22:03that well you see it is that which is
22:06divid of the spirit flesh in other words
22:09is the human race as self- evolved and
22:13as
22:14selfon it is this human race without the
22:18spirit of God in
22:21it very well then there is our
22:25main definition of this term that ised
22:28used so frequently in the
22:31scripture and what we are told about our
22:34state in a condition of total depravity
22:37is that we are in that way in the flesh
22:41and acting according to the
22:44flesh now one of the main
22:46characteristics of our life as the
22:48result of that is that it is a life
22:50which lacks
22:52balance and this to me is the most
22:55important
22:56matter men consist as we've seen of body
23:00and soul if you like you can think of
23:02the Soul as having those two aspects the
23:04most spiritual aspect and the other
23:06aspect so that in a sense you can use
23:09the three-fold term Body Soul and
23:12Spirit now men we saw you remember when
23:15he was made by God was in a perfectly
23:18balanced
23:20condition that part of him which was
23:22related to God was there and functioning
23:25that part which included his mind his
23:27understanding his
23:29part which enabled him to communicate
23:31with men and the world round and about
23:32him there it was working perfectly and
23:35the body was perfect and working
23:37perfectly yes but the important thing
23:39was this that as God Made Men the three
23:44parts were working together in a state
23:46of Perfect
23:49Harmony I often feel in the matter of
23:52illustrations that I'm somewhat crippled
23:54because I'm afraid that so many of you
23:57haven't sufficiently agre cultural
23:58background to your lives to understand
24:00what I'm saying but if you've ever seen
24:03a dairy made milking a cow in the days
24:05when they used to milk uh with hens and
24:07not with these machines they now use you
24:10would often find Dairy Maids used to sit
24:11on stools which had three
24:14legs little three-legged
24:16stools and it was always a trouble if
24:18one leg was shorter than the others or
24:20if one suddenly broke but there they
24:22were the three well now men was like
24:24that at the beginning there was this
24:26perfect balance each part was playing
24:28it's just its right part and no
24:31more what has sin done sin has upset the
24:36balance and this condition of being in
24:38the
24:39flesh means that the balance is gone
24:42formerly the spirit controlled
24:45everything it kept the balance men in
24:48the right relationship to God functioned
24:51perfectly in his spirit in his soul in
24:54his body the body was kept in its place
24:57you remember Adam and eve were naked and
24:59everything was all right the moment they
25:01sin they became conscious of their
25:02bodies and they became ashamed and they
25:04tried to cover themselves you see the
25:06body has immediately got out of
25:08proportion and you have the beginning of
25:10this modern sex mania this consciousness
25:13of sex this thinking about it reading
25:14about it suggesting things to it looking
25:17on it from the outside that's just a
25:20sign of this lack of
25:22balance and men in this fleshly
25:24condition in this uh state of depravity
25:28is one is say has become utterly
25:31lopsided Paul describes him you remember
25:33in the second chapter of the epistle to
25:35the Ephesians and in the second verse is
25:37saying that he is guilty of being
25:40controlled by lusts of the Flesh and of
25:43the
25:44Mind something which people forget
25:47everybody recognizes lusts of the
25:49flesh but according to the Apostle Paul
25:52lusts of the Mind are as bad as lusts of
25:55the
25:56flesh for men was never meant to be
25:58controlled by his mind anymore than he
26:00was meant to be controlled by his
26:04body he was meant to be controlled by
26:06the
26:07spiritual but that I say has been lost
26:11as the result of sin and the
26:13fall and man if you like has become
26:17exentric he's not at home he's not
26:20balanced he's lopsided he hasn't got his
26:24balance some men are controlled entirely
26:26by their bodies eating and drinking and
26:29various other things yes but others you
26:31see are not guilty of that can be
26:33equally in a state of lust and equally
26:35In the Flesh because they're controlled
26:38by their Earthbound Minds by their own
26:41Thoughts by the philosophies of men and
26:43not by God's revelation and not by God's
26:47spirit and that is why you will find
26:50that the Bible seems to teach everywhere
26:52that in a sense the last and the
26:54ultimate sin is intellectual Pride
27:00it was the great trouble with the Greeks
27:02their pride was a pride of intellect and
27:04they wouldn't listen to the
27:06gospel and that is why at times if one
27:08may say such a thing speaking very
27:10humanly and
27:11naturally that is why at times it seems
27:14a very much easier thing that a man who
27:17guilty of lusts of the flesh should be
27:20saved rather than a man who is guilty of
27:24intellectual
27:26Pride it is equally terrible if not more
27:30so in scriptural
27:32definition but I mustn't stay with this
27:35let me go on other characteristics of
27:37men in a state of depravity are
27:40these that he is controlled by self
27:44instead of by God I think it follows of
27:48necessity the original sin was put in
27:50the Temptation was put in that form
27:52wasn't it an appeal was made to Pride to
27:55man why should you be subservient to God
27:57why should you God to keep this from you
27:59why don't you assert yourself Eve fell
28:01to the Temptation Adam followed and thus
28:04men fell in terms of self and the result
28:08has been and it's the most amazing thing
28:11man is a victim of
28:13himself you yourself and I myself are
28:16our greatest
28:17enemies the curse of life is that we're
28:20all
28:20self-centered we live for self instead
28:23of for God and thus we are selfish we
28:27are self-centered we are jealous and we
28:29are envious as Paul puts it we are
28:31hateful and hating one another why well
28:33because we're all out for ourselves
28:35instead of all living to God and in
28:37worship of God and to the glory of God
28:39we've all made ourselves gods and we're
28:41revolving around ourselves and our
28:43little planets collide with other
28:45planets and thus there are quarrels and
28:47disputes and clashes and
28:49differences men as the result of this
28:52depravity has become self-centered
28:56egocentric and can't get away from
29:00himself and of course this leads in turn
29:03to the misuse of all his
29:05faculties he was meant to use them all
29:07to the glory of God he now uses them to
29:09his own Glory they were never meant for
29:11that so they're being abused and the
29:14result of persistent abuses abuses that
29:17they develop wrong habits and eventually
29:19they even become
29:21defective and the scripture teaches us
29:24that that can happen even to the
29:25conscience your conscience can be seared
29:28with a hot
29:30iron and your conscience may get into
29:32such a state because of ignorance that
29:35it really May mislead you you may think
29:37you're right when you're wrong the
29:39conscience needs to be educated and that
29:41is why you'll find the conscience of a
29:44Savage in a pagan country speaks
29:46differently from the conscience of a man
29:48who's been educated in virtue and IM
29:50morality thus you see our misused
29:53faculties eventually become defective
29:58the final manifestation of our depravity
30:01is this
30:03one that we are all slaves of
30:06Satan and there's nothing more depraved
30:09than that in a sense that is the
30:11ultimate of
30:13depravity not only has our own nature
30:15become twisted and perverted in the way
30:17we've
30:17[Music]
30:18seen but still more terrible I say is
30:21the fact that we've become the slaves of
30:23the
30:24devil our Lord describes Us by Nature
30:28and as apart from regeneration as
30:30children of the
30:31devil The Works of your father he says
30:34you will do we belong to the kingdom of
30:38darkness oh let me repeat it again I've
30:41been preaching out of the 11th chapter
30:43of The Gospel According to St Luke on a
30:45number of Sunday nights and there it is
30:48the strong man armed keepeth his Goods
30:51at
30:52peace unregenerate mankind is nothing
30:55but the goods of the devil
30:59what a terrible state of depravity we
31:02are in by Nature as the result of Adam's
31:05original sin and
31:09transgression now let us leave this
31:11question of total depravity and turn for
31:13a moment to the second thing which is
31:14total
31:16inability what does this mean well
31:19here's another of the effects of
31:20original sin and
31:22pollution and this has reference
31:24obviously mainly to our spiritual powers
31:28the Bible teaches that man is totally
31:31incapable I'm emphasizing both terms man
31:34is as the result of sin totally
31:37incapable what do I mean by that well
31:41again I don't
31:42mean that he cannot perform any natural
31:45good of course he can it's obvious it
31:48doesn't mean that he's incapable of
31:50civil or Civic good and righteousness of
31:53course he is his history proves that
31:56even though it doesn't even mean that
31:57he's not capable of an external kind of
32:00religion he is capable of that a man can
32:03be very religious and yet we still serve
32:05him that he's totally depraved and
32:07totally incapable well how do you show
32:10it well like
32:11this he is totally incapable in this
32:15sense that all his actions are defective
32:19good though they may be in many ways
32:22because they are not prompted by a love
32:24of God and a love to God and because
32:28they're not prompted by a concern about
32:30the will and the glory of
32:33God so though they may be ethically and
32:35morally good in and of themselves
32:37they're useless because their motive is
32:41not
32:42true but let me put this still more
32:45specifically when we say that man is
32:47totally incapable we mean
32:50this he cannot do any act which
32:53fundamentally meets God's approval
32:58he cannot do anything which
32:59fundamentally meets the demands of God's
33:02law there is none righteous know not one
33:06all have sinned and come short of the
33:08glory of God you read the third chapter
33:10of the epistle to the Romans and there
33:12you'll find it stated very clearly all
33:14the goodness of the world is as filthy
33:16RS all the goodness is as dung and refu
33:20and loss ultimately it has no
33:22Val because it cannot satisfy God's
33:25ultimate approval or his law
33:28but we also mean this by total
33:30incapacity or total
33:34incapability that men cannot change his
33:38fundamental preference for sin and
33:41self he cannot change his own nature I
33:45go further he cannot even make an
33:48approach to such a
33:50change men cannot get rid of the
33:53depravity I've been
33:54defiling he can't even make an approach
33:57to getting rid of it
33:59fundamentally he can do nothing about
34:01his
34:03Fallen condition his fundamental total
34:07depravity and
34:10inability even beyond that I must say
34:13this he has no appreciation at all of
34:18spiritual
34:20truth that I find in the first epistle
34:23to the Corinthians and in the second
34:25chapter where Paul says this the natural
34:27men of the natural mind understandeth
34:30not the things of the spirit of God for
34:33they are spiritually discerned neither
34:35can
34:36he read very carefully that second
34:39chapter of the first epistle to the
34:41Corinthians and you'll find that the
34:43apostles entire case is this that the
34:46natural person this person who's in the
34:48flesh in the condition of
34:51Flesh he not only can't change his
34:53nature he has no understanding or
34:55appreciation of spiritual truth
34:58he cannot understand it says Paul why
35:01well he answers his own question in the
35:03second chapter of Ephesians in the first
35:05verse when he tells us that we are dead
35:07in trespasses and
35:09sins the natural man or the carnal men
35:12take again that statement in the eth of
35:14Romans the carnal mind is enmity against
35:17God is Not subject to the law of God
35:20neither indeed can be it's an absolute
35:23statement of total inability let me give
35:26you some other scriptures
35:29the new man in Christ is described in
35:31John 1:13 as one who is born and not of
35:34blood nor of the will of the flesh nor
35:36of the will of
35:37men but of the will of
35:40God I referred already to that which is
35:43born of the flesh is flesh that which is
35:44born of the spirit is
35:48Spirit John 6:44 tells us no man can
35:53come to me except the Father which ha
35:55sent me draw him
35:58no man can come to me except the Father
36:02which ha sent me draw
36:05him read again the sth of Romans where
36:08Paul tells us what he cannot do what the
36:11natural men cannot do quite incapable of
36:16it and again I say read Romans
36:188: 7 and
36:218 now here then we see these two great
36:25consequences
36:28are the original
36:31sin original guilt original
36:35pollution and the pollution manifests
36:38itself in these two terrible and
36:39terrifying ways total
36:42depravity which we've defined total
36:47inability which we have defined
36:49again and you notice that the essence of
36:52the definition of both the depravity and
36:54the inability is this that they
36:57concentrate on describing men's
36:59spiritual state it doesn't mean that
37:02every man's as bad as he can be it
37:04doesn't mean that he's incapable of any
37:07sort of good at all while even animals
37:09are capable of that you see them
37:10sometimes doing kindnesses to one
37:12another and showing consideration for
37:14one another of course but the point is
37:16that there is no spiritual value in
37:18these things they have no value in the
37:21sight of God he can and men can do
37:23nothing at all about his own salvation
37:25he can't change his nature
37:28can the leopard change his skin of the
37:30eth the leopard change his skin of the
37:32Ethiopian SP leopard change his spots of
37:34the Ethiopian his skin and all these
37:36other statements man is totally depraved
37:40he is totally
37:44incapable very well then there according
37:46to the Bible we see men as
37:48ear as the result of Adam's sin and the
37:53fall he is
37:55guilty he is condemned by the law of God
38:00he is
38:01polluted he is depraved he's under the
38:04Dominion of self and of sin and of
38:09Satan and he is utterly and absolutely
38:16helpless he has no appreciation of
38:18spiritual
38:20truth because of his depravity and
38:22because he's blinded by the God of this
38:25will who will not allow him to have
38:28appreciation even if he wanted it that's
38:31the 2 Corinthians chapter
38:344 well now then there is men and again I
38:37would remind you of that great
38:39statement as we look at him God
38:44once dwelt here what a Calamity that sin
38:49of Adam
38:51was what a terrible devastating thing
38:55what awful consequences have devolved
38:58upon the
39:00world what can be done about such a
39:04creature is there any hope for
39:08him is there anything we can say to
39:10ourselves before we part and don't meet
39:12again for 3 weeks as we look at men as
39:15he is as the result of sin and the
39:19fall we've not
39:21flinched we have not tried to protect
39:23nor to Shield ourselves we've allowed
39:25the scriptures to speak to us and we've
39:28seen this horrible picture this awful
39:31photograph of ourselves as we are born
39:34into this
39:36world is there no hope for
39:39it well thank God we all know the
39:42answer there
39:45is into that awful
39:48condition there came a
39:51promise and the thing I think that will
39:53Fascinate us and charm us throughout
39:56eternity is
39:58this is that the promise came from the
40:01very God against whom men
40:04Rebel and still more amazing and
40:07remarkable is that it came almost
40:08immediately after man had
40:11rebelled for the promise was given to
40:14men even before he was Thrust out of
40:18Paradise The Promise was given to him
40:22even in the very Garden where in his
40:24utter Folly he listened to the devil and
40:27fell and brought all these horrible
40:30consequences upon himself even
40:32then without any delay this amazing God
40:37whom we worship and adore in his
40:39Everlasting and eternal
40:41love gave the
40:44promise the seed of the
40:47woman shall
40:49bruise the Serpent's head there is going
40:54to be a Deliverance a savior as
40:58salvation and God's Universe men
41:03supremely shall not only be
41:06restored to what it was
41:09before but even something beyond that
41:12for in him the tribes of Adam
41:16boast more
41:19blessings than their father
41:22last then next
41:25week we shall all whether we observe
41:29times and Seasons or
41:31not be thinking of the ultimate crucial
41:36act which made all that possible when
41:39the Son of God gave
41:42himself and bore our sins in his own
41:46body on the tree that we being dead to
41:49sins should live unto
41:53righteousness let us pray
41:59great God of Wonders all thy ways are
42:02Godless Godlike matchless and
42:05divine but the fair glories of thy Grace
42:09oh God they stagger us and stand out in
42:13a more matchless manner than anything
42:15else who is a pardoning God Like thee or
42:20who has Grace so rich and free oh Lord
42:27Lord we pray thee to enable us to see
42:31this more than ever
42:34before Oh God we thank thee for even the
42:37searching of Thy word which humbles us
42:40and humiliates us to the dust and strips
42:44us of all our self-righteousness and
42:47selfreliance and reveals us unto
42:49ourselves in all our wretchedness and
42:53vess and
42:55hopelessness we thank thee for
42:58all because it is only as we realize
43:01that we
43:03realize something of that love so
43:06amazing and so
43:08Divine that gave itself even unto the
43:11death of the
43:13cross that we might be rescued and
43:16redeemed we would say thanks be unto God
43:21for his unspeakable gift Lord accept our
43:26unworthy praise and
43:29adoration and now May the grace of the
43:32Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God
43:35and the fellowship and the communion of
43:37the Holy Spirit abide and continue with
43:40us now throughout the remainder of this
43:43our short uncertain life and Earthly
43:46pilgrimage and until we shall see thee
43:51face to
43:53face amen

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