My Natural Tendency

Can I live up to all this law perfectly?

• No, I have a natural tendency to hate God and my neighbor.

For the Bible Tells Me So...

Romans 3:10 

• As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one.” 

Romans 3:23 

• …for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 

1 John 1:8,10 

• ...If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, & the truth is not in us. 
• If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us. 

Genesis 6:5 

• Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 

Genesis 8:21 

• And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.” 

Jeremiah 17:9 

• “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” 

Romans 7:23 

• But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 

Romans 8:7 

• Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 

Ephesians 2:3

• …among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. 

Titus 3:3 

• For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 2