Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
--Satan works in the children of disobedience--from what age? Even from infancy.
Ephesians 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
--We have a sin nature from infancy. We are children of God's wrath. We inherit a sin nature. It is innate within us. How clear this teaching is!
Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
--No exceptions, not even infants. There is none righteous.
Romans 3:11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
--No one, by their own nature, understands. They don't, by their own nature, seek after God. They all have a sin nature--all of them, even infants.
Romans 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
--There is no one that does good, no, not one, not even an infant. This is very emphatic--not even an infant--no one!
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
--This is one of those verses where all means all speaking of the human race. There are no exceptions because all have a sin nature. We sin because we have a nature, inherited by Adam, that gives us the propensity to sin.
Psalms 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
--David in a psalm of great repentance points to the point of his conception, the time spent in his mother's womb, and says that he was a sinner even then. He is saying that he was born with a sin nature. His mother did not wrong. He is repenting of his own wrong, and points to the awful sin nature that he has inherited, the wickedness of sin that dwells in his own being.
Psalms 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
--Children are born with that same sin nature. As soon as they are born they need to be taught the truth, for it is in their nature to tell lies.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
--God makes no exception here. Not even the heart of an infant is innocent. Our hearts are deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know them? The answer is: only God.
All are born morally wicked and estranged from God.
--Satan works in the children of disobedience--from what age? Even from infancy.
Ephesians 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
--We have a sin nature from infancy. We are children of God's wrath. We inherit a sin nature. It is innate within us. How clear this teaching is!
Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
--No exceptions, not even infants. There is none righteous.
Romans 3:11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
--No one, by their own nature, understands. They don't, by their own nature, seek after God. They all have a sin nature--all of them, even infants.
Romans 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
--There is no one that does good, no, not one, not even an infant. This is very emphatic--not even an infant--no one!
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
--This is one of those verses where all means all speaking of the human race. There are no exceptions because all have a sin nature. We sin because we have a nature, inherited by Adam, that gives us the propensity to sin.
Psalms 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
--David in a psalm of great repentance points to the point of his conception, the time spent in his mother's womb, and says that he was a sinner even then. He is saying that he was born with a sin nature. His mother did not wrong. He is repenting of his own wrong, and points to the awful sin nature that he has inherited, the wickedness of sin that dwells in his own being.
Psalms 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
--Children are born with that same sin nature. As soon as they are born they need to be taught the truth, for it is in their nature to tell lies.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
--God makes no exception here. Not even the heart of an infant is innocent. Our hearts are deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know them? The answer is: only God.
All are born morally wicked and estranged from God.
