Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Effects of the fall – Man Became:


Separated from God

Isaiah 59:2 

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Depraved in nature

Ephesians 2:1-3

1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

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:

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.

Ignorant and blind

Ephesians 4:18

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Evil in conscience

Hebrews 10:22 

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Corrupt and deceitful in heart

Jeremiah 17:9 

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Mark 7:19-21

19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? 20 And he said, that which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
             

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