What is human nature?
Why does it exist?
Where did it come from?
Did God create it?
Why is it so selfish and evil?
Few have understood this subject.
Get ready to hear the truth.
The World to Come.
The Restored Church of God presents David C. Pack.
Human troubles and evils are foretold to grow far worse in this age.
Appalling violence, terrorism and war are escalating as human nature hurtles further
out of control.
After a school shooting where many lay slaughtered, a parent remarked, "I don't understand
this world anymore."
You can understand both this world and the cause of its troubles.
Understanding human nature is the key.
All human beings possess human nature.
The selfishness, rottenness, violence and terrible evils that spring from human nature
have plagued the world for thousands of years.
The Bible states, "The whole world lies in wickedness."
The cause of this lies directly at the feet of evil human nature.
Every "expert" has a different opinion about what human nature is and where it comes
from.
Yet none know why human nature exists.
This is because they reject the source to understanding the answers to all of life's
greatest questions.
Consider the paradox!
Think of all the wonderful things the human mind is capable of producing.
Its ingenuity and inventiveness are practically limitless.
Yet it cannot solve the most basic of life's greatest problems—poverty, ignorance, immorality,
crime, war and misery.
All these—and many more—are by-products of unbridled human nature!
Many theologians and religionists teach that all humans are endowed with a "better nature"
inside, waiting to be tapped and channeled.
The Bible says no such thing!
Yet, millions subscribe to this idea.
This teaching comes from the long-held pagan doctrine of the duality of body and soul—that
all people have a pure, pristine soul locked in an evil body that serves as a prison house
until death, when it is freed.
This is an attempt to explain the root of human nature without examining the truth of
what God says.
Millions more believe the unbiblical doctrine of "original sin."
While Adam and Eve certainly did sin, the Bible teaches nothing about any "original
sin" passed on, generation by generation, to every person.
This term is a fiction of men.
Romans 3:23 states, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God."
Every human being has sinned on his own account!
All are responsible for and guilty of their own sins—not those of Adam and Eve or anyone
else!
Adam's sin brought two consequences: (1) It cut mankind off from the Tree of Life and
(2) brought the death penalty on all human beings.
Jesus explained what comes out of the human heart.
He said: "That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man.
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications,
murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy,
pride, foolishness: all these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
Now this is a staggering revelation.
Jesus said it—so it has to be true!
And the prophet Jeremiah added, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately
wicked: who can know it?"
In other words, "who'd ever believe it?"
Of course, most do not know this about themselves, though they often readily see it in others.
Further, the apostle Paul wrote, "The carnal [or natural] mind is enmity against God: for
it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be."
These are incredible statements about the minds of all human beings.
But how did the torrent of evil thoughts, which pour from people, come to exist in them
in the first place?
How did it get there?
Does God infuse human nature into tiny babies at birth?
Does an all-wise, all-powerful, loving God take innocent children and turn them toward
terrible evil from birth?
And, if God does not put this nature there, then where does it come from?
Ephesians 2:2 references the devil's power and influence upon the world: "Wherein in
time past [Paul wrote] you walked according to the course of this world, according to
the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience."
Notice that Satan's "spirit...works in the children of disobedience."
Do you see this?
Satan has the power to use the "air" to broadcast, through his spirit, an attitude
of disobedience!
His spirit sends moods, feelings and attitudes of hostility into people's minds.
These "work" to bring disobedience.
This "air power" gives the devil tremendous influence, allowing him to send thoughts of
deceit, anger, pride, hatred, vanity, jealousy, lust, greed, envy and confusion directly into
people! Revelation 12:9 states that he "deceives
the whole world."
And his cunning has been so seductive that he has even been able to convince most that
he does not exist!
The devil is immensely more powerful than most realize.
The Bible identifies him as this world's god.
As this world's god, Satan blinds and deceives on a staggering scale.
The result is a world filled with disobedience or lawlessness!
On the other hand, Christians follow God and obey His spiritual Law, which is holy, just
and good!
But how do they do this?
The apostle Peter referred to "the Holy Spirit, [which] God has given to them that
obey Him."
God's Spirit is given upon repentance and baptism.
This Spirit helps Christians obey the Ten Commandments!
We can now better understand the "children of disobedience."
Like Christians with the Holy Spirit, these people are also inspired and guided by the
spirit of this world's god.
Satan broadcasts a spirit of rebellion against—and disobedience to—God's Law.
A deceived world knows nothing of this understanding!
If you listen to the radio, you usually pick a station that plays what you want to hear.
Today, people "surf" radio or television stations, and of course the Internet.
Eventually, something interests them, and they stop and listen by choice.
People have control over what they hear or watch.
It is not the same with Satan's station.
The world—and you—do not decide to tune into the devil's broadcast.
No one sets out to be deceived.
But every person on Earth is automatically tuned to Satan's wavelength!
His wickedness, hostility, rebellion, deceit and selfishness are continually "on the
air."
Therefore, it is really Satan's nature that is being labeled as human nature.
In fact, once it is injected into people, Satan's nature becomes natural to them.
It becomes their nature—now, human nature.
Though you cannot see it any more than you can see radio waves or television signals,
the air around you is literally charged and "crackles" with the energy of Satan's
broadcast.
Just as God the Father has children, Satan is also a father with his own children!
Consider this: On one occasion, the apostle Paul labeled
a particular man: "You child of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not
cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?"
Notice that "children of the devil" are enemies of "righteousness" and "the
ways of God."
This is what being Satan's children means!
But what is righteousness?
The Psalms record: "All Your [meaning God's] commandments are righteousness."
There's the definition.
Satan's children hate, and are enemies of, the laws of God—His commandments!
Remember, they are "children of disobedience."
Revelation 9:11 describes Satan as "a destroyer."
This understanding sets the stage for the next scripture.
Certain people professed to "believe on [Jesus]" in John 8:30 and 31.
These same people sought to kill Him moments later!
And He said, "You seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you," and Jesus
added, "You seek to kill Me, a Man that has told you the truth."
Many say they want to hear the truth—but not if it means being told they are wrong,
particularly about cherished ideas.
This story comes to a remarkable climax, with Jesus asking, "Why do you not understand
My speech?"
He answers His own question with, "...because you cannot hear My word."
They could not do it!
What could cause people standing right beside Jesus to "not hear His word"?
He answers, "You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will
do."
Jesus plainly then said to them, "You are not of God," and these were people who believed
in Him.
These devil-inspired religious leaders immediately then accused Him of "having a demon"!
Many today who profess to "believe on Christ" are no different.
This is instructive.
The devil is a father who murders, lies and destroys.
As the author of killing, deceit and destruction, he broadcasts these attitudes to his children
around the world!
Make no mistake!
The world is filled with the children of the devil.
Children are basically much like their parents.
Therefore, Satan's children lie, hate, murder and destroy.
Look at the world.
It should now be most clear why so much confusion, war, ignorance, poverty, disease and misery
are everywhere.
The fruits of human nature—Satan's nature—are evident wherever there are human beings.
The Bible describes the "last days" before Jesus' Return with this: "This know also
[and most don't], that in the last days perilous [meaning dangerous] times shall come.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters [listen to this list],
proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection,
trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
traitors, heady, highminded [the list goes on and on], lovers of pleasures more than
lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof [the warning?]:
from such turn away."
While the world is filled with religion—"a form of godliness"—it neither teaches
the truth nor has the religion of God!
It denies the power of the true God, and unwittingly worships a being who palms himself off as
the God of the Bible.
But how did Satan come to be as he is?
Prior to the re-creation of Earth and creation of Adam, Satan rebelled against God's government,
and led one full third of all angels into rebellion with him.
Isaiah 14:12 to 15 reveals he had once ruled the earth, and Ezekiel 28:15 shows he was
a created being—Lucifer, a powerful, perfect archangel.
But how did the devil gain access to mankind?
What opened the door to his influence—his "broadcast"?
Grasp this!
Human nature did not come from God, but rather from Satan the devil.
Yet human nature is not inherited—it is acquired!
Adam's children and all succeeding generations did not "pass it on" at conception.
A parent who loses an eye, hand or leg does not produce children with one eye, hand or
leg.
The Bible refers to Adam's son Abel as "righteous Abel."
His parents' disobedience did not prevent his obedience.
Think of Adam and Eve as simply adult "babies."
Just like babies today, they were pure at their creation but were quickly exposed to
a "broadcast" they could not resist.
Like most children today, they chose not to listen to their Parent—God.
Instead, they believed Satan's lie in the garden that they would not "surely die."
In so doing, they rejected the rule of God's government in their lives.
If Adam had obeyed God's instruction, he could have qualified to replace Satan and
restore the government of God on Earth.
The New Testament instructs through an example of how human nature is acquired, not inherited.
Here is a warning to the Corinthian congregation.
Paul wrote: "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety,
so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."
Once one is called and converted, having received the Spirit of God, he has put off the old
human nature of his past life.
Paul then reminded the Ephesians, "Among whom also we all had our [conduct] in times
past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind;
and were by nature [get that] the children of wrath, even as others [all others]."
This follows and is part of the scripture identifying Satan as "prince of the power
of the air."
Recall that phrase.
It would be grossly unfair of God to inject newborn babies with human nature, and then
place them under His "wrath" for having it.
See this point!
Human nature is acquired, leading to disobedience to God—and this puts people under God's
wrath!
Here is Ephesians 2:3 from the Phillips translation.
It accurately describes how people acquire human nature from the devil.
Notice: "You drifted along on the stream of this world's ideas of living, and obeyed
its unseen ruler [that's Satan]...We all lived like that in the past, and followed
the impulses and imaginations of our evil nature...like everyone else."
How true!
Most people simply drift along in life following whatever feelings ("impulses") and ideas
("imaginations") that strike them from moment to moment.
Ephesians 1 is Paul accounting to those brethren their calling into God's Way.
The Ephesians had come out of the course of this world and were no longer "by nature"
the children of wrath, and no longer yielding to the "prince of the power of the air."
They were "dis-acquiring" human nature by yielding to God instead of the impulses,
pulls, feelings and temptations of Satan's wavelength.
Understand!
You have been practicing Satan's way your entire life—and have probably become very
good at it.
Believe me, as you strive to overcome and resist the pulls at work within you, you will
find that Satan's influence, in the form of human nature, is truly "second nature"
to you, more than you now know!
Overcoming will not be easy or happen overnight.
It is a life-long struggle against an attitude and way of life the truly repentant Christian
has rejected and turned from.
Remember, the devil seduced Eve through temptation.
Genesis 3:1 reveals how he tempts people into disobedience and sin.
Notice: "Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field..."
Satan deceived Eve by tempting her with the beauty of the tree God had forbidden her to
eat.
Temptation never comes from God.
Notice: "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted
with evil, neither tempts He any man: but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away
of his own lust, and enticed.
Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings
forth death."
Temptation always originates from "the tempter," working on the lusts of people.
The devil recognizes where people are vulnerable, where they can be "enticed" so that "sin
is conceived."
The Bible warns of the "wiles of the devil," the "depths of Satan" and to not be "ignorant
of his devices."
True Christians are people on guard for his schemes.
Resisting and overcoming the temptation of the devil was central to Christ's having
overcome sin.
Notice: "Submit yourselves therefore to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."
Like any muscle of the body, character is built by pushing against resistance.
Successfully facing that resistance strengthens the muscle (in this case, the mind).
Building character means choosing to do what is right instead of choosing to do what is
wrong.
Character does not concern itself with what others say or do.
It only concerns itself with what God says to do!
Never forget that the Christian must resist Satan, who is active at every turn.
But it is not through human effort or human strength alone that this can be achieved.
Notice: "Brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the
devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness [the Greek
says and means wicked spirits] in high places."
Many scriptures describe how human nature, unchecked by overcoming, has complete dominance
over every aspect of people's lives.
Christians must forcefully "wrestle" against the power of the devil and his demons—"wicked
spirits"—on a day-to-day basis.
They must constantly struggle against feelings of offense, hostility, envy, anger and many
other attitudes.
The fruits of human nature are evident the world over.
God states, "Now the works of the flesh are manifest [meaning obvious], which are
these [here comes a long list]; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings,
murders, drunkenness, revellings [wild parties], and such like...they which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God."
Overcoming these patterns of conduct and thinking is directly tied to salvation and ruling in
the kingdom of God!
Now consider this: "Even as they [all people] did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind [meaning one void of judgment], to do those things
which are not convenient [meaning right]; being filled with all [another list] unrighteousness,
fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity;
whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful: who knowing the judgment of God [get this], that they which commit
such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that
do them."
Incredible!
This powerful list of wrong attitudes and conduct summarizes the condition of all humanity.
Paul wrote of an entire world under the devil's influence and sway: "There is none righteous,
no, not one [do you believe that?]: there is none that understands, there is none that
seeks after God [do you believe these phrases?].
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none
that does good, no, not one.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison
of asps [one of the deadliest snakes in the world] is under their lips: whose mouth is
full of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood [how true]: destruction
and misery are in their ways [also, how true]."
While all who are of this world are primarily devoted to acquiring goods and enjoying pleasures,
this is not the goal—and attitude—of the one who seeks God and is a true Christian.
He strives to remain in constant harmony with God's supreme, over-arching purpose for
his life.
When Christ returns, Satan, as earth's deposed ruler, will be removed.
No leader could permit a disqualified leader to remain and co-rule with him.
The old leader would constantly second-guess and undermine the new one.
Human governments understand this—and so does God.
He knows Satan has to be removed from his position of influence.
Soon now, Satan will be rendered unable to deceive earth's inhabitants.
The temptations of this world and human nature, caused by Satan, will disappear—though there
will still be certain pulls of the flesh that all will have to overcome.
Peace will literally break out all over the world.
The saints will be ruling with Jesus Christ from Jerusalem—having restored the Government
of God within His kingdom, administered by the Family of God.
God's "perfect spiritual" Law will be enforced among all nations.
Jesus will then open eternal life and salvation to the whole world, now still cut off from
God, blinded and led by Satan's nature.
This world is completely deceived, and drifting along, unaware of God's purpose to restore
His government to Earth.
Only the tiniest few who have been called by God are to be a part of this restoration.
The Government of God will soon be restored to Earth, and all who have prepared themselves
will "inherit the kingdom."
Only the overcomers—who submitted to God and successfully resisted Satan throughout
their lives—shall take part in this glorious future: "He that overcomes shall inherit
all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My son."
Will you be one who inherits all things?
Here is a booklet you need: Did God Create Human Nature?.
Read it and do so carefully.
It explains much more than one broadcast could possibly cover.
Until next time, this is David C. Pack saying, "Goodbye, friends."
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