g.
Imputation of Sin. The consequences and effect of the fall
was passed on to and imputed or attributed to the entire human race.
When Adam sinned he was the representative of the entire human race,
all of which were in his loins. As a result of the sin of Adam as their
representative, all mankind stands guilty before God. All mankind sinned
in Adam as their father and representative.
i.
The consequences of the fall are universal in that the fall affected
all humanity without exception:
Psalms 14:2-3 The Lord looked down from heaven upon
the children of man, to see if there were any that did understand,
and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become
filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
ii. After
the fall Adam had children. These children were conceived and born
after the likeness of their father, for Adam had but one nature
that he could pass on to his children. That nature was the fallen
and depraved sin nature and therefore all of Adam's descendants
are sinners:
Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years,
and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image;
iii.
People do not become "depraved" or a sinner upon reaching some age
of "accountability", or upon committing a first sin, but rather
they are depraved in their very nature and from the very beginning
of life which is even before birth:
Genesis. 8:21 ...; for the imagination of man's heart
is evil from his youth;
Psalms 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go
astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Psalms 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did
my mother conceive me.
Psalms 53:3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether
become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no,
not one:
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory
of God;
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the
world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for
that all have sinned:
h.
Man Spiritually Dead. In his fallen and depraved condition,
man is spiritually dead. Not only does he not desire spiritual things,
he cannot believe, know or receive spiritual things. Until his nature
is changed by a sovereign acts of God man will remain in this condition,
for the natural man cannot do anything spiritually for himself or for
anyone else:
1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither
can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
John 8:47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear
them not, because ye are not of God.
John 10:2 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as
I said unto you.
i. Man's Inability to Recover. Man is without the will,
power or ability to recover from the fall or to change his fallen nature.
In fact, man in nature is even without any desire or will to recover from
his present condition of depravity. The scriptures declaring this principle
include the following:
Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
not one.
Jeremiah 13.23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard
his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Psalms 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance,
will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Matthew 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither
can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
John 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive,
because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him; but ye know him;
for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
j. Salvation is of God. Man being dead in sins can
do nothing to change his sin nature. Only God has the power to change
man's depraved nature. God alone can by his grace and an act of divine
and sovereign power give spiritual life to one that is dead in trespasses
and sins:
2 Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves
to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
2 Corinthians 1:9-10 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves,
that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth
the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver:
in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us:
Ephesians 2:1 And you have he quickened, who were dead in trespasses
and sins;
Ephesians 1:4-7 According as he hath chosen us in him before the
foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame
before him in love; Having predestinated us unto the adoption of
children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure
of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he
hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption
through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches
of his grace;
Matthew 19:25-26 ... Who then can be saved? But Jesus beheld them,
and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all
things are possible.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God
is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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