Psalm 14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one. I. THE INBORN DEPRAVITY OF OUR NATURE. 1. What saith the Scripture? 2. The records of human experience are to the same effect. See the moral misery of the world. Look at the evidence of our inborn depravity in the manifold outbreakings of wickedness in every age and circumstance of life. Notice also the corruption and infirmity which is found remaining even in good men. We cannot read the sins of Abraham, and David, and Peter, and Moses without many painful and humiliating thoughts. Who can stand if they fell? II. IN WHAT DOES THIS ORIGINAL DEPRAVITY OF OUR NATURE CHIEFLY CONSIST? 1. In the depravation of our intellectual faculties. The mind of our race has become blinded. Civilisation gives no Divine knowledge. 2. In the perversion and rebellion of the will. By the will we understand the commanding faculty of the soul by which it chooses or rejects anything that may be offered to it. 3. In our disordered and alienated affections. Such a threefold cord against God and holiness we might well fear could not be broken. But thanks be to God, there is one who can break it. "Thanks be unto God, who giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ." (D. Moore, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. |
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