Satan Plays off of Our Sin Natures (TMF:1178)

Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Peace to Live By: Satan Plays off of Our Sin Natures (TMF:1178) - Daniel Litton
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       We understand that, in our current fallen state, we each have the sin nature, and Satan can play off of our sinful desire to want to fulfill all our desires, anything we want to do, regardless of what God has said. Now, he didn’t have that privilege with Adam and Eve, but he definitely has that privilege with us. Because we each have a fallen sin nature with fallen desires, Satan can try to play off of those desires. Really, if you consider it, it’s true that a lot of New Age thinking (though it’s not really ‘new age’) is based on the premise that we should fulfill all the desires we have in our bodies, in our flesh. We might also call this postmodern thinking. People don’t want to deny themselves anything really. If we are honest with ourselves, though, we know that way of living really doesn’t work. It’s just not reasonable to say one should fulfill all his or her desires. Some people have desires inside themselves where they want to hurt other people, for instance. And most of us would agree that those people shouldn’t fulfill those desires.