Transcription
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Announcer: Does your sinful nature make you sin? Please, stop telling yourself that.
Michael Pearl: There are professing Christians who say, "I sin because I have a sinful nature." That's one of the devil's techniques for deceiving you.
Let me say, if you have a sinful nature, then I excuse your sin. If you have a sinful nature, then you don't even need to be listening to this because there's nothing any of us can do for you. You would be living contrary to nature to do something good.
We will arm ourselves when we're around you if you have a sinful nature, because that means you're a killer. It means you're a murderer, a rapist, a child molester, fornicator, adulterer, a thief, a liar, ready to commit genocide. If you've got a sinful nature, then all things that are sinful and evil, no matter how dark they are and witchcraft and everything else, that is your natural condition.
That's where we'll expect you to be, if you have a sinful nature. If you did something good, we would know it wasn't good. We would know it was just an apparition. It was just a reflection of something that wasn't in your heart. It was an accident. We know it's impossible for you to do good if you have a sinful nature.
The sinful nature is the most ridiculous of all excuses for committing an act of sin, for following your passions. It's an absurdity. [laughs] It's a philosophical, illogical absurdity.
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My own sin, years of rebellious behavior and stupidity, climaxed in a short jail sentence. I believe the Lord was with me watching me in grievance perhaps. The strange thing to me, is that I thought I was a Christian! So I had to figure out where I went wrong and search for the truth which only the fear of the Lord can provide. His shelter, His peace, His strength. But I had to come to him on his terms. Not the other way around! If we seek him, he will shelter us with his righteousness (right ness), love, faith, hope, strength and all the fruit of the spirit. Just ramblings, but that belief holds us each accountable to seek him, as individuals. Thank you Michael Pearl for posting this sermon!