Acts 5;28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.

As we left off yesterday realizing there is nothing that we did to deserve this sin nature we were born into, we are left with a bewilderment as to what can be done about it. The apostles were trying their best to remedy that condition by the doctrine of Christ’s blood. Now the pure cure is to be covered by the blood of Jesus and not guilty of the blood of Jesus. The doctrine of blood is the cure for the condition but it does not explain what happens in that specific moment.

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

What is implied here by Jesus is a cure for the condition of being born with a sin nature. One must be born again WITHOUT the sin nature. It seemed impossible to Nicodemus to enter into his mother’s womb, and rightly so. It seems impossible for us to be born again without a sin nature and rightly so.

Luke 18:27 And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.

All three of the synoptic gospels agree on this point. Man’s salvation is the purview of God and God alone. There is absolutely nothing man can do to make it happen. Yet it is God’s will, purpose and power to do so, in accordance with His righteous demands of this New Covenant contract in which we are able to be engage in Christ. Please note the wording carefully, not engage to Christ but engage in Christ.

Romans 6:3-4 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Being born again into the life of Christ we now have a new nature, a new life, one that is no longer powerless over sin. Our sin nature died with the old man, is buried and gone.

Isaiah 64:4 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Yesterday I left you talking about condition and intent. I will address intent tomorrow but for today, let us address condition. The largest lie told by man is this; I am not a sinner. It is quickly followed by; I am a moral person. The reason those lies work so well in the minds of mankind has everything to do sin nature. Morality has nothing to do with sin and cannot erase nor correct sin nature.

Romans 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

It is not your fault that you were born this way. You were subjected to this sin nature unwittingly, without your knowledge or consent. That does not change the fact you were born with a sin nature. It is a condition you will have to accept without pleading innocence. To explain this in terms which make sense to a moral person, morality is an agreement by society to dictate what is moral and what is not. Because society changes, the standards of morality shift in accordance with societies views and needs. God defines sin and there is no bending of the standard.

Isaiah imposes a word often misunderstood, righteousness. Righteousness in a moral society only seeks to judge you according to being right with a moving target of what is right with a people who change on a whim. If you see righteousness as being right with God, that you have a right standing before God, then you are powerless to meet that perfect inflexible standard.

Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: