Man was originally endowed with noble powers and a well-balanced mind he was perfect in his being, and in harmony with God.

But through disobedience his powers for perverted selfishness took the place of love

His nature became so weakend through transgression that it was impossible for him in his own strength, to resist the power of evil.

He was made captive just by Satan, and would have remained so for ever had not God's specially interposed.

In his sinless state, man held joyful communion with him in Whom are hid all treasures of wisdom and knowledge Colossians 2:3. but after his sin, he could no longer find joy in holiness, and he sought to hide from God.

Could he be permitted to enter heaven it would have no joy for him. It is no arbitrary decree on the part of God that excludes the wicked from heaven: they are shut out by their own unfitness the glory of God would be to them a consuming fire

It is impossible for us, of ourselves, to escape from the pit of sin in which we are sunken. Our hearts are evil, and we cannot change them. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. The carnal mind is in enmity against God for it is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be. Job 14:14, Romans 8:7

Education, culture, the exercise of the will, human effort, all are powerless all have their proper sphere, but here they are powerless. They may produce an outward correctness of behavior, but they cannot change the heart; they cannot purify the springs of life.

There must be a power working from within, A new life from above, before man can be changed from sin to holiness. That power is Christ.

The idea that it is necessary only to develop the good that exists in man by nature, is a fatal deception. The natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God: for they are foolishness on to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discern. Marvel not that I said unto the, ye must be born again. First Corinthians 2:14; 3:7

It is not enough to perceive the loving kindness of God, see the benevolence, the fatherly tenderness, of his character. It is not enough to discern the wisdom and justice of his law, to see that it is founded upon the eternal principle of love.

Paul the apostle saw all of this when he exclaimed, I consent them to the law that is good. The law is holy and the commandment holy, And just, and good. But he added in the bitterness of his sole anguish that despair and despair, I am carnal, sold under send. Romans 7:16, 12, 14

Read Romans 724 Paul says oh wretched man that I am! We shall deliver me from this body of death? Romans 7:24

Such a cry comes from everyone, To all there is but one answer come the whole the love God which take away the sin of the world John one twenty nine

When after his sin and deceiving you saw, Jacob fled from his fathers home, He was waiting down with a sense of guilt. Lonely and OutKast as he was, separated from all that he made Life dear the one thought that above all others pressed upon his soul, Was the fear that his sin had cut him off from God.

The mystic latter of his dream represented JesusYou Only medium of communication between God and man referred in this conversation with Nathaniel, When he said ye shall see haven't opened an angels of God is sending and descending upon the Son of Man John 1:51

But in vain or men's dreams of progress, invading all efforts for the uplifting of humanity, if they neglect the one source of hope and help for the following race every good gift and every perfect gift James 1:17 is from God. Is no true excellence of character apart from him. And the only way to God is Christ. He says I am the way the truth and life: No man cometh unto the father but by me John 14:6

The heart of God yearns over his earthly children with a love stronger than death. In giving up his son, he has poured out to us all have an in one gift.

Oh let us contemplate the amazing sacrifice that has been made for us! Please try to appreciate the labor and energy to heaven is expending to reclaim the lost and bring them back to the fathers house