If the natural man is given some work of fiction or superstition out of man's vain imaginations and he is satisfied, but in the Scriptures he sees nothing worthy to admire, kindle his faith, or excite his hope and confidence. God is no object of Delight to the carnal mind. Human nature ignores the LORD's existence and presence. It would be the greatest relief to the carnal mind if it could be proven without a shadow of a doubt that there is no God at all. No God to observe you, no God to reward your deeds at the Judgment to come, no God to call you to Judgment in the afterlife, no awful doom awaits me, no God to punish you for your iniquities and transgressions. The carnal mind is perfectly happy without God. The extreme of depravity is when you try to remove God from your heart and life each day. The natural man obtains a vile comfort in the folly of ignoring God. The carnal mind refuses to forsake his way and thoughts, but its fleshy energy strains after self-salvation.
For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me. Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off; and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. (Isa 47:10-11) They say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him? (Job 21:14-15) The natural man will not have Christ to reign over him; he not willing to let Christ wear the crown, and have ALL the honor and glory of Salvation. The natural man would rather perish in his sins, that only Jesus Christ and His Blood Atonement and Righteousness be magnified in his Salvation.
To be without God in the world and having no hope is to be without Rest and Peace in the present and without confidence concerning the future and eternity. The fleshly minds puts out its own eyes to avoid the LIGHT. The religious natural man loves to rely on his own fictitious righteousness. Human nature thinks that it must "do this" and to "attain to that", and then it will be acceptable to God. It is dreadful for the carnal mind to even think of or remember the Holy Creator, the Most High God. The neglect of God and dread of Him cannot deliver them. The natural man puts out his own spiritual eyes to temporarily obtain a deadly false security, so he can keep on serving/loving his sins.
The carnal mind thinks of God with dread, dismay, despondency, and despair. The carnal mind despises God, slights His Dear Son with disdain, sears the conscience, resists the Holy Spirit promptings, rejects the Scriptures as unworthy of regard. The wicked carnal mind contemns the counsel of the Most High. The natural man says, "there is no law to accuse me, no gospel to invite me, no Christ to forgive me, no fear of God, no horror or feeling guilty of my sins, no distress of mind, no Judgment of my secrets, no eternal danger or damnation to face, no coming Wrath to dread, no Hell to enter, no Eternity to endure."
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 (1 Cor 2:14) Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness (Eph 4:18-19) Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children (2 Pet 2:14) Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil (Jer 13:23) O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh (Matt 12:34)
The carnal mind does not desire God, he wishes there was no God at all. No desire for God, no love to Christ, no Delight in the Scriptures, no desire to learn the Gospel from Christ, no intent to obey God, no adoration worship or fear of God. The natural man hears about God at church, but has no regard for the LORD in private or public. It is madness to drive away thoughts of God and the Spirit of God. Thoughts of God are disliked and dreaded by the sin-loving carnal mind; God is disallowed indeed.
Carnal ears do not want to hear of Jesus Christ, but the carnal tongue uses JESUS CHRIST with wretched profanity and the cruelest blasphemy. The carnal mind lives in wilfull/deliberate neglect of God and Eternity. The fool finds pleasure in sin and profit in rebellion against God. The carnal mind despises, neglects, rejects, and hates JESUS CHRIST, The Light of the world. The natural man puts darkness for light, and light for darkness; he throws away gold and precious stones of the Gospel, but gathers up more and dirt of this world.
You are traveling down the fast lane of the lonesome, dark road of Sin dragging the heavy load of your iniquities with you. The Bible says, "the way of transgressors is hard." You are squandering away the precious days, weeks and years of your life. You are flirting with eternal disaster every day you are out of Christ. As long as you reject Christ, you are outside of safety and out of hope. Rebellious human nature loves darkness and is always flirting with self-destruction. How much more sin and corruption can your poor Soul bear in this life without Jesus Christ? You are flirting with everlasting destruction. It makes no sense how you keep neglecting and rejecting Jesus Christ and imperilng your poor Soul; your Soul's only Hope in this life and out in Eternity is the Crucified and Risen Son of God. You are gambling every day with the little time you have left. You choose your eternal destiny every day. You turn your heart away from Christ every day you wake up and insanely head right back into the darkness of your sins. All your good works are like dirty laundry; forsake your own righteousness forever. Turn from loving your sins and deadly way (Repent); Look with your heart to Jesus Christ; receive Him inwardly, and trust only His Precious Blood today.
