If we hope to reach the world with the good news of Jesus Christ, then we must come to grips with the nature of the people we are trying to reach. Man was created both male and female in the image of God as an ever living being Man was created to have fellowship with God, to have dominion over the earth and all of God’s creation was perfect. However, since sin entered the world through Adam’s disobedience, all mankind has been condemned to physical (biological) corruption and eternal (spiritual) death. There now exists a separation; Man from God, male from female, and Man from himself. As expressed in the historical teaching of Total Depravity (or better phrased, “Total Corruption”), the image of God in man has been completely corrupted by sin.
And although God has written his commands upon the heart of all mankind, there remains no hope that Man, of his own efforts, can ever deliver himself from this condition by any intrinsic or earthly means.
Man’s natural condition leaves him a subject and a slave to sin. Not only is Man’s corrupt by nature, but his conscience continues to be weakened by sinful actions. However, there is still hope for all those who in faith submit to God and confess that we can be renewed by God’s grace alone through faith in Jesus Christ.
Do you understand sin?
Do you know why sin destroys our capacity for relationship with God?
Do you know what it means to be free of sin?
This blog post is based on my Bible curriculum available at EmergingLife.org.
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