The Character of All Humanity
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Universal Condemnation

Quotations from Scripture

These are not merely allegations. They are really indictments in the form of a conviction by the judge of the universe who has viewed the human problem from His perspective as God. So, when we say "indictments," we really actually mean convictions. These are 14 points upon which the human race has been convicted.

It is Written

Intelligible

So, when God says, "It is written, it signifies something that you can understand and something that is, therefore, in language that we can communicate something through. God uses language for communication. He does not use nonsense to communicate meanings.

The liberals, because they are under satanic direction, actually try to take the normal meaning of the words of Scripture and convert those ... into allegorical meanings; that is, that the words don't mean what they say. They have a mystical meaning that you must determine some other way. What are they doing? They're actually going right back to Satan's technique of always dealing in unintelligible sounds, and in unintelligible words. Even where the words are clearly vehicles of communication, they want to change them over to where the words are meaningless. Therefore, you must be careful, whenever you deal with spiritual things, to be aware of the fact that God says that He communicates in understandable terms.

"It is written." For what? So that you can make sounds to create some emotions? No. It is so that you can get some information that God has for you.

Charismatics

The Lord Jesus Christ

The Wilderness Temptations

Satan, at the very beginning, wanted to stop that, as he has always wanted to stop that through history in one way or another. So, he had this confrontation with Jesus Christ in the wilderness after that physical hunger period to bring the Lord into an act of sin.

The first temptation, you will remember, Jesus simply countered by taking the Sword of the Spirit and striking back of the devil. Jesus simply quoted Scripture and said, "The reason I'm not going to do what you said is because the Bible forbids it in this verse, and He quoted it. Now the devil proceeded to do something to Jesus Christ that he does again and again with sincere believers like yourselves who love the Word of God; who appreciate doctrine; and, who actually are devotees as students of the Word of God. He uses your attachment to doctrine to lead you out of the plan of God for your life.

He tried to do this with the Lord Jesus. The second temptation that he offered was that Jesus would prove His deity in one magnificent demonstration. So, he took them up to a high pinnacle on the temple in Jerusalem. Down by the side of the temple was the deep valley. And he says, "Just jump off from that pinnacle." It was something like 600 or 700 feet. Satan said, "Just jump off the pinnacle, and land down in the valley. Everybody will look up there. They'll gather a crowd. The word will spread throughout the land. People will be awed; their mouths will be gaping open; and, they'll be pointing up there at that man standing up there on the top of the temple. And when they see you jump off, the gasp of the crowd will be heard from one end of the land of Palestine to the other."

The devil said, "And when they suddenly see what the Bible says will happen – that an angel will suddenly appear and catch You just before your feet hit the rocks in the valley below, and gently lower You, there won't be anybody who will doubt that you are what you say you are – the Messiah Savior King."

Well, that's reasonable, isn't it? The devil actually quoted what the Scriptures say. Matthew 4:5-6: "Then the devil took Him up to the holy city, and sat Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said unto Him, 'If You be the Son of God.'" This, by the way, is first-class condition: "If You are the Son of God, and You are." He knew it: "Cast Yourself down, for it is written." And there is our phrase – the authoritative, inerrant, absolute, can't-be-wrong Word of God. Anytime that phrase appears, that's what it means. The devil says, "I'm talking to You on doctrine that is true. You know it, Jesus:"

Satan Quoted Scripture

Now, Jesus Christ had done some wonderful things, no doubt, to this point, but His finest hours were before Him. He stood at the very threshold of His finest investment as a believer. His finest rewards were now before Him. The Lord had brought Him to that point, and that's why the devil was ready to strike Him down. When you get to the point where you stand on the threshold of your finest hour in Christian service, that's when all hell is going to break loose around your ears. And you better be prepared for that. That's when the devil is very subtly going to try to use your attachment and loyalty to the Word of God to lead you out of the plan of God.

Jesus could have responded. And in that response, He would have sinned, and Satan would then have continued for all eternity as the ruler of this world. He would have been victorious, and we would have lived in our sinful condition forever. We would never have been freed of the deteriorating effects; of the depressive effects; and, of the debasing effects of the old sin nature.

However, Jesus understood that there was a balance in the Word of God. Jesus understood what it was to be stable because He was stable. Therefore, He was not swayed. It is amazing how sometimes the people that we would think would be the most stable, and the strongest, and the most developed as Christians are the ones that are suckered in by this same satanic attack that Satan tried to pull on Jesus, and Jesus didn't fall for it: "I have a great new insight. I've got a whole field of vision. I've got a whole new understanding for you."

I've been through this many times. I don't know whether you have, but I have been through it many, many times with people who have great new insights upon old things that we've always believed, they have found a great new enlightenment. It is very wearisome to me to talk to people like that. I finally get to the point where I say, "That's it. I don't ever want you talking to me about the Bible again until you straighten out on that foolishness. I cut them off, and I have no further wasted time and capacity in these immature, unstable people who have fallen for an attack of Satan. And I'm talking about believers.

This tactic is often successfully used on Christians who are so determined to know doctrine that the devil can use their zeal to get them enmeshed in trivia, and to get them out of a place of effective service. I'll tell you one of the defenses that they make. The defense that they make is: "The Lord's not going to let me go wrong. I'm sincere." Well, what do you think the charismatics believe? What do you think is the number one defense of the charismatics except that very thing? "I'm giving the Lord the glory. I am acting in all sincerity and openness to Him. He wouldn't let me go wrong." I don't know how many times I've heard that from charismatics after you've pointed out to them the fantastic air of what they're engaged in, and how satanic the thing is that they're engaged in. And they'll say, "I can't believe that God would let that happen to me. I can't believe that He would take my devotion and let me go off into something that is serving the devil." Well, you better believe it, because that's the integrity of your free will – to make your choices, and to act upon what you know.

The hand of the Spirit of God is a gentle hand. If you don't learn that, then you're going to fall for guff of: "He won't let me go wrong." The hand of the Spirit of God is gentle, and He will say, "Hey, that's wrong." And He will put His hand upon your shoulder, and you can brush it aside very easily, and you can go your own way. It is a gentle leading hand. He does not strong-arm you like some football player that's going to shove you in the direction you should go. That is not the way God deals with us. His number one way is: "It is written. I'm going to make an absolute inerrant statement. Now you respond to it." And that is positive volition. And you can reject it. And if you do, you have brushed His gentle hand aside, and you then suffer the consequences.

What we are talking about is what the Lord described through Paul in Ephesians 4:14, when he says, "That we henceforth be no more children (kids' stuff), tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive." Now that verse in Ephesians 4:14 is a New Testament declaration of what the devil was trying to do with the second temptation of Jesus Christ in the wilderness. The Lord did not get carried away with the hotshot that comes along and says, "I've got some new and deeper insights to give you. It is the oldest trick in the world, and these people who are grimly obsessed with discovering truth are going to find someday that they have sought vain goals. Many a believer has been in the truth. Many a believer has been at the center of the plan of God for his life. Many a believer has been on the threshold, and actually involved in his finest moments of service in the times when the treasures in heaven were being poured in by the truckloads. And at that point they have fallen. And Satan has taken them, and from then on it has been downhill for the rest of their lives.

So, you be very careful to appreciate that the Word of God is inerrant, and that when you have been taught it, it's still ignorant. It doesn't become a mistake after you have learned it. And that the devil is constantly out to take that which is inerrant (which has been written), and to convince you that you don't have quite the right slant on it, and that someone out here has got the new insights to give you so that you can go to new plateaus with God. After all, that's what the devil was telling Jesus. I'll take you to new plateaus with God if you do this. And Jesus did not fall for the trick of using His love for doctrine to lead Him out of the will of God, and I hope you will not do the same. That is kids' stuff. Anybody who is a mature Christian does not go flying off on some tangent in some hot shot way, like God has suddenly now begun leading him, and hasn't been really guiding him up to that point.

That is not to say, incidentally, that a person who goes off on a tangent with Satan doesn't feel comfortable. Once you have gone negative at critical points in your life, you will never be comfortable until you express that negative line of thought. Remember that. Then when you get into your negative line of thought, then you say, "Oh, boy, I've never been so relaxed. I really feel good. So, it's wonderful." That's what the psychiatrist tells you. You go in and say, "Oh, I have this trouble. I just like to be immoral. Boy, I just think about it. I read magazines. I work on it. But I'm just unhappy. The psychiatrist says, "Well, just go ahead and do what comes naturally. That's your trouble."

So, you go out and have a marvelous time of going down in all kinds of immorality. And you say, "Oh, boy, I feel good. This is so wonderful. I'm so relaxed. I've never been so relaxed in all my life." Well, what are you relaxed in, you poor idiot? You're relaxed in your sin. You're relaxed in the fact that you are succumbing to the pressures within you that you have not resolved under the hand of God. That's why you're comfortable. Haven't you ever noticed how uncomfortable your friends are around you? Even we who are your Christian friends are uncomfortable around you sometimes. But your friends are miserable around you because you won't do what they do; you don't act like they do; you don't talk like they do; and, you don't think like they do. So, they're uncomfortable around you because they smell the odor of eternal life on you, and they begin to get that smell of eternal death upon themselves. But when they get with their own crowd (their own gang), then it's a field day. It's old homecoming week. It's one dirty story; one foul word; and, one debacle after another. And everybody is having a wonderful time. Everybody is so relaxed. Why? Because you are pursuing what you are.

Jesus Christ pursued what He was. When Satan hit him with that second temptation, He was a stable man of God. He said, "Listen, devil, don't come along and give Me your advanced, new insights on interpretation of the Word. I've already been taught the Word, and I don't have some new things to learn that show a totally new insight and totally new meaning." Don't be trapped by that. Even if it makes you feel comfortable, you better take heed whether you are comfortable by God's standards or by your old sin nature standards.

Beginning at Romans 3:10, we have the first of these indictments. Romans 3 comes from Psalm 14:1 and Psalm 3:1. We already looked at Psalm 14:1 just to give you a feel of how the Old Testament actually said these things, and how they conveyed God's view of mankind.

The Character of Humanity

1. None is Righteous

   After, "It is written," Paul says, "There is none righteous. No, not one. This is indictment number one. "There is" is the Greek word "eimi." This indicates a status. This is a status quo verb, and it indicates the status of humanity – a condition in which humanity finds itself: "There is none." The word "none" in the Greek is an old word that you've met many times before. It is the Greek negative "ou," which is the strong negative. That's the strongest way of saying "none." This is what the Holy Spirit selected in order to establish the fact there's no exceptions here. These indictments are true of everybody born into the race. The thing that nobody has is righteousness. The Greek word is "dikaios." And here, "dikaios" stands for God's absolute righteousness. That's what he's referring to. It refers to what one ought to be morally; and, what one feels to be morally. This is the standard for life in heaven – this kind of a life, or this kind of a quality.

   That, incidentally, is what all these are. These first three verses, 10-12, are giving us the character of humanity. Unless you have the character of absolute righteousness, then you cannot go to heaven. The word "dikaios" corresponds in the Old Testament to the Hebrew word "tsadik," and "tsadik" gives us a little more information as to what God means by righteousness, because the Hebrew word means "to be correct" in what you do. And the unbeliever is not correct. He has only a righteousness which is relative. It's based on comparing himself with other people. So, he's better than other people in certain respects, and thus he has a righteousness only by comparison. But that kind of righteousness is the sign of spiritual death. This kind of righteousness is the sign of spiritual life. If all you have is relative righteousness, you're never going to get to heaven.

   It's the imputation of Adam's sin (the guilt of that sin) to us, and the presence of the old sin nature, consequently, within us, that makes it impossible for us to have absolute righteousness. By the sheer fact that we're born into the human race, we share Adam's guilt, and we have a sin nature. Then, eventually, we do things wrong in our own right. So, we have personal sins. And it's impossible for us ever to have this kind of correct action and correct thinking. We do not have this kind of righteousness.

   "No, not" is the Greek word "oude." Again you see the "ou" part. That means absolutely not. It's the strong negative. We would translate it as, "Not even one." "One" is the Greek word "heis." That means the number one. There isn't even one person who has this quality.

   So, here's the summary of indictment number one: There is no one with absolute righteousness. That's the first problem that a person has. So, immediately, we don't have to have any more indictments than this. I don't care how good you; how sincere; or, how fine a person you are. If you do not have absolute righteousness, then you cannot go to heaven. Then you cannot spend eternity with God. Then you will be in the lake of fire forever. That is why you are under the wrath of God. So, all of humanity is under this first dark cloud here. All possess mere relative righteousness, and that dark cloud rests upon every human being without exception.

2. None Understand

   Indictment number two is again indicating the status of all humanity. It says, "There is none that understands." The Greek word is "suniemi." "Suniemi" means "to bring together," and it refers to the lack of a divine viewpoint mentality. It connotes bringing facts together to achieve a perception of truth. The reference here is to being able to grasp divine viewpoint standards of righteousness. There is no one who has got divine viewpoint understanding. That is what this principle is stating. It's in the present tense as a verb, which means it's constantly true of everybody. It's active. It means that unbelievers, on the basis of their actions, do not have divine viewpoint understanding. It's a participle. It's a divine principle which is being stated here.

   To understand how God functions, relative to the guilt of human sin, requires the enlightenment that only the Bible can give us. It's the Bible that tells us what God thinks about our sin. The only way we can get it all together is through what the Bible says – through doctrine. 1 Corinthians 1:21 and 1 Corinthians 2:14 both tell us that's the only way we get an understanding of what God thinks. It's through the Word of God.

   When you look at unbelievers, they are spiritually blind, so they don't understand how dangerous is their condition before God. The average unbeliever does not realize what a dangerous situation he is in. He doesn't know how terrible it is for him to step out of his house, and the hazards he runs during the day, because of the ever present possibility of death, and the consequences for all eternity to him. Because he does not have divine viewpoint understanding, he does not understand his own dangerous condition.

   So, this spiritual blindness makes unbelievers incapable of solving any of their problems. All of their lack of divine viewpoint causes them constantly to try to solve problems in a way that you cannot solve problems. And this is the problem of our society. We have people in our society who do not understand, for example, the divine institutions. Therefore, they cannot solve the problems of society. They do not understand the role of government. Therefore, they don't know how to use government to bless people. Instead, they come up with human viewpoint uses of government, and they bring distress and cursing and hardships upon people. This lack of divine viewpoint even denies them the capacity to see what the real problems are.

   How many times do we have politicians who come up with grandiose schemes of one kind or another to solve some problem, only to discover that that wasn't even the problem? So, they have to throw out the solution because they didn't have the right problem. They couldn't even identify what the problem was. The problem was something else, and they were working on the wrong thing. That happens again and again. Why does it happen? Are these men ignorant? Are they uneducated? No. They have this problem of indictment number two. They do not have divine viewpoint understanding. Therefore, they cannot help themselves or help other people.

   So, the do-good liberals come along, and they're simply used by Satan to intensify the problems of society, not to resolve them. Philosophy comes along and tries to give some answers, but because the philosophers work from a human viewpoint frame of reference, it's a worthless heap. And that's all it is. They are trying to find out about God and the meaning of life with natural reason, and that cannot be.

   Some of the early church fathers did not understand this principle. Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest of them, opened a can of worms because he got the idea that man was fallen in his emotions and man was fallen in his will, but he said that man did not fall in his mentality. His mentality was not affected by the fall. That was a very simple little statements in the Middle Ages, but it was a statement that began a line of reasoning that burst into the naturalism of the Renaissance, and bursts upon us today in the human viewpoint concepts that obsess and that possess and that control everything we do in our society today. That little idea of Thomas Aquinas, that the mind did not lack divine viewpoint (and that's what he was saying), gave people and philosophers subsequently the idea that man could reason himself into what God thinks. That idea says that if you just sit down and think, you'll find out what God wants you to do. You think (you reason) yourself into what is pleasing to God. Reason was elevated to the controlling influence in the life of men. Aquinas had missed his study of Romans, and he missed this point – that man does not have divine viewpoint understanding. Therefore, the mind is fallen just like the rest of the soul. This was a very serious mistake.

   So, the summary statement is this: There is none that possesses divine viewpoint understanding. All of humanity is under this black cloud – that all possess mere human viewpoint. And that's all they function upon.

3. None Seek after God

   The third indictment that Paul says here in verse 11 is, "There is none that seek after God." "There is none," again, is the same as we had before. It is indicating a category of human beings. "That seek after God" is the Greek word "ekzeteo." "Ekzeteo" means "to seek out" or "to seek after." The object of this search is God ("theos"). The Greek has "the God," so that it is indicating that the search is God the Father that is in view here. Unbelievers do not seek after God the Father. They seek instead after false gods, as 1 Corinthians 10:20 makes very clear to us. They do not seek after the true God. Seeking after God means wanting to conform your thinking to divine viewpoint. It means wanting to conform your actions to divine good actions. This is not done by unsaved people. They simply do not care what God thinks. They simply do not care what God considers the right thing to do. They ignore it. Unbelievers ignore this viewpoint. They operate really as if God were not there. That's the point.

   We live in an age when people don't think that God is out there. So, today people are hiding themselves, just as Adam did himself in the garden. And when Adam got himself on his human viewpoint mentality, the first thing he did was that he said, "God's not really there, and I can hide myself from him. Politicians today overwhelmingly lack divine viewpoint understanding, so they do not seek after God's principles. They do not seek after the answers that God has for the human dilemma. They are ignorant of the divine institutions, so they violate them. They champion the needs of people under some human good motivation. Out of their sincerity, they find that all they are doing is using people to advance their own ambitions. Very often, that's all the politician wants to do. He doesn't want to do anything more but to bring to people what they want so that they'll put him in office. Even if he doesn't plan to do what the people want, he'll pretend that he's going to plan to do what the people want. When he's in office, he's going to show them what's good for them.

   So, they overwhelmingly lack this divine viewpoint understanding. Human good is never capable of really genuinely caring for people. You cannot care for another person with human good. Only God's divine good can do that.

   So, spiritual that never looks to God for the real solutions. I don't care how fine the politician is. If he's spiritually dead, he cannot come up with God's solutions for what is good for society. Even most of the so-called clergy today, that vast pool of religious leaders in our country and around the world, represent the viewpoint of spiritual death – not the viewpoint of spiritual life. They do not seek God where He is. They do not seek God's ways. They do not seek His thinking.

   Only the Holy Spirit can overcome this kind of blindness and this kind of indifference. He gives the information to the unbeliever that he needs to be saved so he can get a mind that can think like God thinks. It's the grace of God that makes the sinner respond to God. It is the grace of God who seeks the sinner. When Adam hid from God, he would have stayed there right down until today. What did God do? God didn't just walk through the garden in silence. He finally said, "Adam, where are you?" And there you have the beautiful picture of the Almighty God reaching out to seek the sinner.

   Sometimes we sing the line of the hymn that says, "I found Him. Oh, I found Him." But I'll tell you something about that hymn. You may have found Him in personal salvation, but you weren't looking for Him when you found Him. It is He who found you. That's why the Bible says, "We are called. We are elected. We are chosen, because left to ourselves, we couldn't care less about going to heaven. We couldn't care less that we're going to hell. We couldn't care less about God; about His thinking; and, about His ways. That is our natural inclination. That's why God says, "You're under My wrath. You've totally rejected Me, the living Almighty Creator God."

   It is the Lord Jesus Christ who, in Luke 19:10, says, "I have come as God to seek and to save the lost. I have come to seek them. I have not come to give them an opportunity to find Me, because are not looking for Me. I have to look for them.

   So, summary statement number three is that there is no one who himself seeks after God. There is absolutely no one who seeks after God. All of humanity is under this cloud – that they all seek human viewpoint and human good. They are self-seeking. And that cloud places all humanity under the wrath of God.

4. All have Gone out of the Way

   In verse 12, we have a quotation from Psalm 14:3 and Psalm 53:3. Here we have indictment number four, which is: "They are all gone out of the way." "They are" is not in the Greek. It's just a very emphatic "All." It starts with that. This is the Greek word "pas," which again indicates no exception. These indictments are not true just of some people. They're true of every one of us: "Gone out of the way" is one Greek word: "ekklino." "Ekklino" means "to bend away" or "to turn aside," and it connotes a stubborn rebellion. Here it indicates leaving the path of absolute righteousness – deliberately deviating from God's way. As Isaiah 53:6 (that we're so well acquainted with) has put it so aptly: "All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way. And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all."

   This is in the aorist tense which indicates every point of sinning. We step out of God's pathway. It's active. Our stepping aside is by our choice. And it's indicative mood to state a statement of fact. You may be interested in following this word because it is used elsewhere in the Scripture, as in Romans 16:17 and 1 Peter 3:11, where it conveys the idea of abandoning. You may also compare with that Isaiah 1:2-4. This is stubborn abandoning of God's ways.

   This is summary number four. We have: "Therefore, they all have abandoned the ways of God." All of humanity then is under the dark cloud that all are negative to Bible doctrine. They do not function on His viewpoint or His ways.

5. All are Useless

   Here is indictment number five. They are together become unprofitable. Again, "they are" is not in the Greek. It just begins with "Together," which is the little word "hama." "Hama" means "at once," and it really means "one and all." Again, there is this constant stress by the Spirit of God that there are no exceptions to these indictments. They include us all: "There is not one." The word "unprofitable" is "achreioo." "Achreioo" does mean unprofitable. It really means unprofitable in the sense of useless. The Hebrew word in Psalm 14:3, that we looked at in the last session, which is behind this Greek word, was translated "filthy" in the English. And that Hebrew word translated to "filthy" connotes the idea of rotten. What we are dealing with here is a Greek word that was actually used by the Greeks to describe what happens to fruit when it gets overripe and begins to go rotten. They would describe it by this word "achreioo."

   So, here you have brought together the basic idea that a thing goes rotten so that it's filthy; it smells bad; and, we don't want to eat it, and thus it becomes useless. All of humanity is described in these strong terms as having gone spiritually bad like rotten fruit. That's the idea of useless. So, the best of human viewpoint is of no real value. The same is true of those who operate on it. It's in the aorist tense, which means that, at any point of acting on human viewpoint principles, you're acting in a useless way. It's passive. That's interesting. Passive means, "I can't help myself, even though I say I'm not going to act on these foolish human viewpoint ways." If you're an unbeliever, that's the only way you can act. You cannot help yourself. So, you experience this kind of thinking. It is indicative. It's a statement of fact.

   Summary number five is: "They are, one and all, become useless." No one is in the plan of God. Their lives are useless. All of humanity is under this cloud. No one is in the plan of God. So, all is useless.

6. None does Good

   Indictment number six is: "There is none that does good. No, not one." This concludes verse 12. "There is none" is again, as before, the statement of status with the negative "ou," "That does" is the word "poieo." "Poieo" means to make something. Here it refers to divine good production. He says, "You do not make good." This is not some of the other Greek words we have for good. There is a Greek word for good that means good in character. There's a Greek word for good that means good in externals.

   This is a different Greek word. It is "chrestotes." This connotes what is upright in external deeds. It's divine good. It's not just good intrinsically in character. It's not just good in that it fulfills its purpose. There's a word for good that means it fulfills its purpose. But here is a word for "good" that is simply saying, "Good in what you do." Therefore, he's talking about the fact that there is nobody who, in his external deeds, is producing something that is good. There is not one (not so much as one) who produces this quality of divine good. It takes an inward nature that can express itself outwardly in this spirit of grace, tenderness, and compassion that we call divine good in action.

   The good here, as compared to the good of an unbeliever, is totally different. Any good that the unbeliever does, Isaiah 64:6 tells us, is a filthy rag in the sight of God.

   Jesus referred to this divine good in His encounter with the rich young ruler. This was the problem with the rich young ruler. He was producing human good, but the good that Jesus said that you need is a divine good. You might look that up in Mark 10:17-18. "There is none that does this kind of external divine good." The word "no" is "ou" plus the verb "eimi," so it's really: "There is not." Then it says, "No, not one." The word "not" is "heos," which means "as much as," and the word "heis;" (one); that is, to the number one. We would translate it as: "There is not even so much as one. That is what the Spirit of God is actually saying. There's not even so much as one person who does anything that God could call divine good. No unbeliever produces divine good. He's not able to do so. No unbeliever can begin to do this. And no one believer fails to do human good. That's the only kind you can do. Only the Holy Spirit can produce this kind of divine good, and you have to be a believer to receive it.

   So, if you understand this fact about yourself, it'll preserve you from seeking salvation by your own works. Rather, you will look to the divine good work of Jesus Christ on the cross. This one itself would preserve you from that error.

   So, here's the summary of number six: "There is no one that produces divine good works." All of humanity is under the cloud that all are capable only of producing human good from the old sin nature.

The Character of All Humanity

1. There is no one with absolute righteousness.

2. There is none that possess divine viewpoint.

3. There is no one who (of himself) seeks after God.

4. They all have abandoned the ways of God.

5. They are one and all become useless.

6. There is no one that produces divine good works.

Next time, we'll pick up the next segment which tells us of the conduct of humanity. With this kind of character, you can imagine what kind of conduct is produced.

Dr. John E. Danish, 1975

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