“But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.”

 

The above can be summed up by this well known analogy:
Mother:  Son, do not touch the stove. The stove is very hot and if you touch the stove, you will get burnt.
Son: Okay Mommy.
And when the mother leaves the room, her son goes and touches the stove with no waste of time.
Son: OUCH!

This is also what happened in the Garden of Eden.  I think Adam would have taken and eaten sooner or later even if the Serpent wasn’t a foot. This is how human nature works. I was watching an episode of “Ghost Adventures” and the lead guy was told not to go into a certain place. The lead guy turned his head toward the man that warned him and asked, “Why?”  A blind person could tell the lead guy had already decided to go to that place even before he turned his head to the man that warned him.  This is human nature.

Edgar Allen Poe wrote, “The Imp and the Perverse.”  In this story he talks about that voice that say’s to the person that is standing at a precipice, “JUMP.” Poe understood human nature, like a preacher knows human nature and “the Imp and the Perverse,” is human nature.

The greatest example of human nature, whether saved or lost, is Paul’s chapter seven (7) in Romans.  Romans seven (7) spells it out, Romans seven (7) says it all.  Romans seven (7) summarizes it all.  Paul summarizes all of human nature in such an economy of words, he must have been inspired by God’s Holy Spirit.  Paul says, what he should do, he does not do.  And what he should not do, that he does. Paul goes on to say, there is a law in the mind and a law in the flesh. With the law of the mind, he serves God but with the law of the flesh, he serves the flesh. Then he cries out to Christ.  This is human nature. This can be put to the scientific method, to be sure.

Praise be to God, the Christ-ian is not subject to this anymore, but as we all know, we do fall into it….do we not?    But again!!! Praise be to God, where sin abounds, grace does much more abound!!!  When a Christ-ian falls, Christ is there to pick that Christ-ian up.  OH!!! HOW!!! I LOVE MY ELDER BROTHER!!!  MORE IMPORTANTLY THOUGH…OH!!! HOW!!! MY ELDER BROTHER LOVES ME!!!