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What Exactly Is The Sin Nature?

Writer's picture: Lucas SantanaLucas Santana

It’s what happened to Adam and Eve at the time of the fall. Before the fall, the Lord had been the supreme advocate for Adam and Eve, in everything that they did. The Lord moved upon them and worked with them twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week—that is the most wonderful position for a person— to be in the presence of the Lord. I’ve never taken any drugs, I don’t know what they do to you; I don’t know what alcohol does to you, I’ve never tasted of alcohol of any nature. But I do know what the presence of the Lord is—and there is nothing in the world like it. To try to explain it, one cannot do so—not successfully, at any rate. Many of you know exactly what I’m talking about, but sad to say, a lot of you do not.


Self-Consciousness

Whenever Adam and Eve fell, they fell from a position of total God-consciousness down to the far, far lower level of total self-consciousness. That’s the reason man thinks as he does, does as he does, and acts as he does, because it’s all wrapped up in self. After conversion, that’s probably the greatest problem for the saint of God—to climb over self.


Let me say it again: Adam and Eve fell from the higher position of total God-consciousness down to the far, far lower level of total self-consciousness, and from the moment of the fall, the sin nature controlled and ruled them. From that day until now, the sin nature has ruled every individual born into this world—except for those who have come to the Lord Jesus Christ and have been born again and become a new creation in Christ Jesus.


However—and this is important—if the believer is not careful and does not understand the sin nature, he will also be controlled by it. Now let’s look at that a little deeper: that means that everything that sinful man does—man who is not born again, not a new creation—everything he does is looked at by God as sin. Let’s say that again: Every single thing that the unconverted person does—even that which the world lauds as wonderful: “He provided money for an orphan home; he’s done this, that, or the other”—but the motive is wrong. That unconverted person may be doing some good things, but the motive is wrong; it cannot be right—it’s impossible for it to be right.


Sin

Before you, me, or any other person was born again, our every activity was sin. Our every thought was looked at by God as sin. The sin nature ruled. You’ve heard the statement made many times, when a person does some peculiar thing, it is said of him, “Well, that’s just his nature.” And that’s right, it is his nature. But the sad part of it is that every single individual in the world who is unsaved, who is not born again, his nature is nothing but sin.


Now, how does the child of God get involved in this? The moment that the believing sinner comes to Christ and is born again—at that moment—the sin nature is made dormant. It’s not a physical thing, but to use an example, it’s like an electrical appliance—when a stove or refrigerator is plugged in, it works; when it’s unplugged, it has no power to operate. Well, the moment a person gets saved, regardless of how wicked, ungodly, degrading, dastardly, or darkened he may have been, the moment he comes to Christ—at that moment—the sin nature is unplugged, so to speak.


Again, it’s not a physical thing; it’s spiritual. Now it’s meant to stay that way—unplugged—but what happens? If the believer anchors his or her faith in anything except Christ and Him crucified, and this is so important, if he believes anything except Christ and Him crucified no matter how good it may be—Paul said that which was good deceived me.


Paul

Paul, in the seventh chapter of Romans catalogues his own experience with the sin nature saying, “but what I hate, that do I” (Rom. 7:15). Millions and millions of Christians are operating in this failure: “but what I hate, that do I.” In other words, they don’t want to do it; they don’t want to fail. Some call such people hypocrites, and the devil is very fond of jumping on that and claiming, “You’re nothing but a hypocrite or you wouldn’t be failing like this.” But they’re not hypocrites. They are individuals who do not understand the sin nature.


Cross

The only answer for sin is the cross. That’s why the believer is importuned to place his or her faith exclusively in Christ and Him crucified because the cross is the only answer for sin, there is no other. That’s the reason the church is a thousand miles off base; it has ventured into the foray of humanistic psychology—it is an insult to God and an insult to what Jesus Christ did at the cross of Calvary.


So, as a believer, how do you have victory over the sin nature? How do you overcome this thing? You do so by placing your faith exclusively in Christ and the cross and maintaining it exclusively in Christ and the cross.

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