The                    Depravity         of Man

In the beginning was God

God created all things and blessed all things, and saw that they were good! Gen. 1:4,10,12,18,21,25,31. God made man in His image and when He saw that man had no one to be with, he made the woman. Gen. 2:18,22,23 so God made woman and Adam named her, that because she came from him.

And they were both naked and not ashamed....Gen. 2:25. Soon, the serpent deceived the woman, the woman deceived man and the world now was in sin.

Immediately God held the man accountable for the woman's behavior and it is still true today that we are accountable. You see the woman was supposed to be under Adam's authority and be submissive to him, then sin wouldn't have entered in at that time.

Now Once the woman and man sinned, God saw that and cursed the serpent, the man and woman and the ground. Adam and Eve learned the hardest lesson anyone could have learned at that moment, when God punished them for breaking His covenant law.

Man was supposed to be consciously living in a spiritual way, Deuteronomy 4:1 - 40,  but disobedience ruined it through his help meet that God gave him, and the further decline and depravity of man was forth coming...

Ecclesiastes 9:3 3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead. 

As the generations grew through procreation, and time after time, the high priority of living a spiritual life was not taught, man would soon find himself in constant chastisement from God.

You see, God created man a spiritual being, but when he sinned, it brought him down to a physical act and a physical mindset and way of living, man was no longer innocent, naive and solely dependent on God, his lifestyle had been ruined, that God had created for him. See how it just dominoed with the first sons Cain and Able. Gen. 4:3-8

Now what happens, the man is still accountable to God, along with the woman, whether married or single, but, man is blamed by everyone for the ruination of things.

Man was never meant to sin, and God was always supposed to commune with him in the spiritual, Gen. 3:8. Now, man needs to live with the spiritual as the highest priority and he doesn't do it. Proverbs 15:33

1st Corinthians 7:1 - 16, Woman, should never marry a man that is not living as a spiritual being, this is the most important. No one in the world should be living with the spiritual as the least importance or even less important than anything else. The reason for this is that, God meant for the woman to be dependent upon the man in everything, because God was leading man in everything in the beginning.

1st Peter 3:1-22, The woman is supposed to look to God in faith. In everything that the husband does, when leading the family if a man is not spiritually trusting God, don't marry him. If you can't trust God, don't get married. Don't abuse your husbands because they aren't doing right in your eyes, especially if they are trying to live a Godly life! If the man and woman are living in love and trust, their highest priority is to communicate in everything, and have a mutual respect for God, and live the way God intends the marriage to be.The husband loves the wife and gives honor unto her, considering that God pronounced her as the weaker vessel. Then, the wife should be reverencing her husband even as much as Sarah did Abraham in whom she called lord.

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My hope for you is that you have had a prayer of salvation,

and if you haven't and you want to ask Christ into your heart and life,

then I offer these words for you to repeat,

but only if your heart is sincere,

because God knows it if you're not.

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Dear God, I now know I have needed you and have

rejected your calling, so today, right now, 

I ask Jesus Christ to come into my heart and my life, 

and forgive me from all past sin and Lord cleanse me 

from my unrighteousness. I believe that Jesus was 

crucified for my sin, died, and was buried according 

to the scriptures. I want you forever more to be 

my guide and I want to follow you as a believer. 

I ask for your strength to change my heart and 

my earthly ways so that I can become a better 

child in your kingdom. Show me how to depend 

on you in all things. And show me how to do 

your will in my life. I thank you and pray this 

prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!

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