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Depravity; The Fall
God created man and he instantly got worse and he keeps getting worse.
There are seven elements to this description. Let me just hit them for you. Seven...in seven major ways sin is indicated. In its extent...in its extent, first of all, on the earth...on the earth. It was really worldwide.Genesis 6:6, "The Lord was sorry He made man on the earth." In verse 7 He's going to blot them all out over the whole earth. Verse 12, "God looked on the earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth."
So, first of all, the extent of this sin was in the whole earth. Secondly, the inwardness of this sin. It was systemic, it was endemic, it was inside man as indicated by verse 5, "Every intent, all the imaginations," that is the thoughts, all the intent or imagination of the thoughts of his heart.
The extent of sin, the whole earth. The inwardness of sin, down to the very thoughts. And it even goes deeper into the very nature of man, in the forming of those thoughts. Not just the thoughts but the intent of those thoughts. You're getting behind it. We could say even the motivation of man is corrupt. The whole earth is corrupt. The thinking of man is corrupt. His mind is corrupt and his deep motivations are corrupt.
And then He talks about the absolutely exclusive character of this sin. In verse 5 He says, "It was only evil continually." Man's behavior was exclusively evil...exclusively evil. And it was exclusively evil, number five, continually...continually.
So you see the sin in its extent. You see the sin in its...in its inwardness in the thought patterns, and you see it in its motivation down at the very intent level. And you see it on its exclusiveness, it's only sin, and you see it in its continuousness, it's continually sin. And then in its inclusiveness he says down in verse 12, "All flesh had corrupted their way." All flesh. If you were to look over to chapter 8 verse 21, you have a repeat of a statement with a little bit of a difference. The middle of verse 21, "The intent of man's heart is evil from his youth." This indicates the earliness of sin, from the very start of life.
So you really see...this is a very elaborate description of depravity. This is a very elaborate, careful description of the sweeping condemnation of man. And in chapter 6 of Genesis and it's this bad...so bad that God drowns the entire planet, except for eight people in the worldwide flood. Look at Genesis 7:23, this will show you how bad it was. "Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals, to creeping things, and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark." God literally obliterated the planet, with the exception of the animals that were on the ark and the eight in the family of Noah.
That`s Depravity.
Amen
Troy
Depravity; The Fall
God created man and he instantly got worse and he keeps getting worse.
There are seven elements to this description. Let me just hit them for you. Seven...in seven major ways sin is indicated. In its extent...in its extent, first of all, on the earth...on the earth. It was really worldwide.Genesis 6:6, "The Lord was sorry He made man on the earth." In verse 7 He's going to blot them all out over the whole earth. Verse 12, "God looked on the earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth."
So, first of all, the extent of this sin was in the whole earth. Secondly, the inwardness of this sin. It was systemic, it was endemic, it was inside man as indicated by verse 5, "Every intent, all the imaginations," that is the thoughts, all the intent or imagination of the thoughts of his heart.
The extent of sin, the whole earth. The inwardness of sin, down to the very thoughts. And it even goes deeper into the very nature of man, in the forming of those thoughts. Not just the thoughts but the intent of those thoughts. You're getting behind it. We could say even the motivation of man is corrupt. The whole earth is corrupt. The thinking of man is corrupt. His mind is corrupt and his deep motivations are corrupt.
And then He talks about the absolutely exclusive character of this sin. In verse 5 He says, "It was only evil continually." Man's behavior was exclusively evil...exclusively evil. And it was exclusively evil, number five, continually...continually.
So you see the sin in its extent. You see the sin in its...in its inwardness in the thought patterns, and you see it in its motivation down at the very intent level. And you see it on its exclusiveness, it's only sin, and you see it in its continuousness, it's continually sin. And then in its inclusiveness he says down in verse 12, "All flesh had corrupted their way." All flesh. If you were to look over to chapter 8 verse 21, you have a repeat of a statement with a little bit of a difference. The middle of verse 21, "The intent of man's heart is evil from his youth." This indicates the earliness of sin, from the very start of life.
So you really see...this is a very elaborate description of depravity. This is a very elaborate, careful description of the sweeping condemnation of man. And in chapter 6 of Genesis and it's this bad...so bad that God drowns the entire planet, except for eight people in the worldwide flood. Look at Genesis 7:23, this will show you how bad it was. "Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals, to creeping things, and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark." God literally obliterated the planet, with the exception of the animals that were on the ark and the eight in the family of Noah.
That`s Depravity.
Amen
Troy
