The Human Condition

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the foundational truth about human nature. We saw that through Adam’s disobedience in the Garden, sin and death entered the world and spread to all of mankind. Because of Adam’s sin, the glorious image of God was exchanged for the image of betrayal, and human nature was permanently bent towards sin. In Romans 5, the Apostle Paul compares the magnitude of Adam’s betrayal to the magnitude of the Jesus’s rescue. When we behold the extent that Jesus went to, experiencing humility, shame, suffering and death, we see the desperation of our sinful human nature. Because we are born into a desperate situation, we need a dramatic rescue.