Simple Faith Nature of Man

Simple Faith

Nature of Man

Man was created in the image of God

God’s nature is love

Adam and Eve were created with this nature

Adam and Eve, like us, became self-seeking

This changed our nature to what the Bible calls the sinful nature

Simple faith recognizes man has a sinful nature that started

When Adam and Eve chose to disobey the nature of love

Simple faith recognizes God did not change but man did

When man’s nature changed so did the heavens and the earth

Because it was man’s responsibility to lovingly care for what God created 

Nature of Man

We do not need the Bible to teach

us the simple things about God.

As Romans 1:20 so clearly shows us, the nature

of this world clearly reveals the Creator.

Although the scriptures clearly tell us “God is love”.

His very nature is revealed by what He has made.

The Garden of Eden is the picture of God’s

creation of the heavens and the earth.

It would seem that when God had made Adam and Eve

they could eat of all the trees and green plants.

When you look at Genesis 1:29-30 you get

the idea they did not kill and eat animals.

Life in the Garden was a vegetarian life.

Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.  And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground — everything that has the breath of life in it — I give every green plant for food."

When God created the Heavens and the earth

He created it with the full expression of His love.

Adam and Eve were to care for and

manage this environment of love.

God Himself said about all

He created… “It is GOOD”.

Love in the Garden was pure;

 it was not self-seeking.

All that was good had to be cared for.

Love has to be cared for and served.

Adam and Eve were created in the

image of God; the very nature of love.

They were to rule over everything

God had created with love.’

It was a change in Adam and Eve’s

nature that changed everything.

Adam and Even became self-seeking.

They chose the nature of Satan which is

self-seeking and caused his fall from heaven.

   

It was this change of nature

that caused the earth to change.

The purity of love had been covered by sin.

God made provision for Adam

and Eve’s self-seeking nature.

Self-seeking nature always

kills the nature of love.

The blood of an animal was shed in order

to cover Adam and Eve’s nakedness.

The self-seeking, sinful nature of man

continued to increase as people increased.

By the time we get to Noah, God says…

The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become,

and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

Genesis 6:5

God’s nature is love and love must judge

rightly the acts of the sinful nature.

In the time of Noah, God sent a flood.

This flood did more than save Noah and man

who lived a life that was not self-seeking.

Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

Genesis 6:22

Up till this time there were not storms,

in fact the earth had not seen rain…

Because man who was created in God’s image

having the very nature of God, a nature of Love.

When man became self-seeking His nature

changed and the Bible calls that the sinful nature.

It is the sinful nature that changed the

nature of the heavens and the earth.

Death, storms, destruction are now a

common part of life in the universe.

They are a constant reminder that self-seeking,

the sinful nature must be judged.

Love will always produce righteousness

and self-seeking will always produce death.

The wages of sin is death

The Bible tells us the nature

of mankind is a sinful nature.

We don’t have to look very far to see this is true.

  

The nature of God is love and love has to

judge sin because sin is the opposite of love.

So when it comes to simple faith…

We believe God’s nature is love

And man’s nature is sinful.

Man’s nature destroys love

But God has made provision

for man to be redeemed.

Scripture Reading

Romans 7:17-20 NIV

17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature . For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do — this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

Romans 8:8 NIV

8 Those controlled by the sinful

nature cannot please God.

1 John 4:7-5:1 NIV

7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love . 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

13 We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love . Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 17 In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.