Human nature says, "I will be my own master and king; me first, Christ last; I refuse to kiss the Son, or yield to His sway, I will have my own way, I will NOT have the man Christ Jesus to rule over me, I'm going to do my best to help Jesus out, I don't want the Holy Spirit leading me, I will make my Self fit for heaven without a Savior." Human nature is in open opposition to Christ. Human nature has an inward contempt for Christ's claims and demands. Human nature mocks at the thought of Christ reigning over it. Human nature is incensed at the Truth of the Gospel. The world sneers at and ridicules true followers of Christ. The true Gospel will either offend or draw the sinner; The Gospel will either harden or soften the heart; the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. JESUS said, He that is not with Me is against Me.
The carnal mind is indifferent to Christ, and will never give Him access to the heart. The reason being is that the Gospel and Christ will cause a moral change within you, and the carnal minds loves immorality. You've never spent a whole hour of your life seriously considering Jesus Christ. You've never spoke of His glory and praise. You never tried to support His cause and spread His kingdom. You turn away from Jesus with contempt, and utterly ignore Him all through your day. Christ has no real power over your desires and actions. You continually degrade your Soul and defile and pollute your mind by sinning against God. You mock and insult the Savior. You are what you are, when you're all alone; that's when the real you shows his colors. What do you prefer rather to receiving and obeying Christ? You prefer lust, greed, money wrongly gained. Eternal damnation is at the back of your foolish choices; You choose a moment of folly, and the pleasures of sin for a season, and then eternal Hell fire, instead of Christ Jesus and His heaven. For popularity, the world's pleasures, and mammon's sake, you reject Christ. You are deliberately unchaste in your private life; dishonest in your trade; false in your speech; foul in your desires, heart and mind.
You close your eyes in unbelief, and stopped your ears in willful ignorance. You prefer your own righteousness to the righteousness of God in Christ. You cling to your filthy rags with impudence. You think you don't need a Savior, and according to you, JESUS' Blood Atonement was a waste of time. You choose Sin rather than Repentance, and you'd rather suffer the everlasting wrath of God than come to Jesus Christ. For a few sinful pleasures you will lose your soul, deny the love of God. You are ready to run the risk of going into Eternity and facing damnation and perdition. You think very little of God, and make light of His Son. Scorning, spurning, despising, insulting and revolting is your way of living. Will you deride the Lord Jesus Christ who died for your sins? Why do you refuse His love, mercy, forgiveness? Resisting the tenderness of JEHOVAH'S bleeding love is pure insanity. You prefer your foul garments of self-righteousness and lying religious profession. You hasten to be rich, fret, toil, worry, worldly greatness, silly fears of man, vain glory, and selfish love of ease. There are hellish spots of sin covering your soul.
Human nature is fickle, shifting, fitful, vacillating, changeable as the wind. Your actions are based on human applause, frowns, smiles. fear of man, approbation, human approval, you vary like the climate. You are afraid of the prating gossip of the vulgar world's crowd. Human nature lauds and magnifies man, and please man's ear. You try to delude men's judgment with flattery for advantage. Man thinks he is a splendid intellectual creature, but Scripture ranks man with worms, and makes man less than nothing, Without Christ, you are in a desperate moral condition. You are what the Bible calls a worker of iniquity, you work hard sinning against God every day.
You full well reject the righteousness of God, that ye may keep your own righteousness. You transgress the Gospel by your commandments and traditions. You make the righteousness of God of none effect by your own righteousness. You lay aside the righteousness of God and the Gospel and cling to your own righteousness. You set up yourself to be your own savior in opposition to Christ. Human nature prefers anything to Faith in Jesus.
Unregenerate human nature thinks JESUS was a good man, but not the Incarnate Creator; fleshly wisdom cavils at His sinless perfection; the worldling is happiest when he is impugning Christ's character; they utter railing words against His person, cause, and people; the spirit of this world denies and ridicules His claims and demands. You deny the deity of Christ, hate the central Gospel truth of His Perfect Atonement/Sinless Atoning Sacrifice for human sin; You rail at Justification by Faith alone in Christ alone, the very heart of the gospel; they question the words of the living God; they scoff at the infallible Holy Bible; they insult the truths and thoughts of God.
It will be an awful, dreadful thing to die without the SAVIOUR. To die unforgiven, unsaved, undone, unregenerate is to face shame and everlasting contempt, unutterable woe will be an eternal nightmare for you. You have mocked Christ's cross, despised His gospel, scoffed His free grace, scorned His tender mercy, spurned His bleeding love. You continue to sin so wickedly against God. You have turned your back on Christ all of your life. No crime is equal to the rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ. You're an impenitent sinner, a mean contemptible wretch. A Christ rejecter is the meanest sinner that ever existed. The very devils and fiends of hell will mock you for all eternity. You will experience vile fiends' terrible laughter in the bottomless pit forever and ever.
