Mankind
The Human Heart
There is only one source to which you can go to learn, really, about human nature. That is the handbook about human nature––the Bible.
Man is God’s creation. God invented man. And it is God who put within man a certain nature.
Philosophers, psychologists, “scalp pickers” and “analysts” by the thousands have striven vainly to understand this greatest of all enigmas––man. And they have miserably failed. As one psychiatrist said to a group of his own kind recently, “We all became interested in psychiatry because we knew we ourselves had some mental problems!”
God reveals the truth about human nature in His Holy Word, the Bible! Listen to the shocking truth about every human heart:
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). Paul wrote, “The carnal mind [the unconverted, unchanged, “natural” human mind] is enmity again God, it is not subject to the law of God, neither can be!” (Rom. 8:7). Solomon wrote, when speaking about the basic make-up of the human heart and mind, “Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities; All is vanity!” (Eccl. 1:2). James said, “Do you think that the Scripture saith in vain, ‘the spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?’ ” (James 4:5).
The Bible is the handbook about man. It and it alone explains the basic reason for our racial, political, spiritual, chaos of today!
Make no mistake! The real cause of today’s race violence and increasing hatred is not ascertainable only at the end of a laborious study of hideously complex social pressures and psychological factors. All too many people are too willing to believe the real answers to today’s problems are terribly complex.
They are not. They are simple.
Human Nature Must Be Changed
Dr. Robert M. Page said, “So long as we have human nature, we shall have war.” The late General Douglas MacArthur, in his dramatic speech before Congress after his arrival in the United States from having been fired during the Korean conflict, said, in urging our peoples toward peace, that we must totally change. And, he said, that change “must be of the spirit, if we are to save the flesh!”
Ever seen a riot? Ever taken part in one? Ever been mad––so mad you had totally lost control of your senses and your mind? Possibly. Most have.
Think back to that time. Were you in any “mood” to be reasoned with? Would a calm, patient “psychological” argument have appealed to you at that time?
How would you like to try to “reason it out” with a mob? It’s utterly impossible.
The Cause of Hate
But why so much hatred today? Why are curses and venom so much on the lips of so many? Why do even “dignified” men seek to solve their various differences with their fists? Almighty God reveals, in His Word, that man’s basic nature is one of great, swelling, egotistic, self-centered vanity! Other basic aspects of vanity are lust, selfishness, and greed! The opposite of vanity is love. Not the watered-down, misconstrued, totally altered and false idea commonly accepted as “love” (which is really lust) today––but the love of God. The love of God is altogether outgoing. It is selfless. It is an outgoing concern, a deep regard, a sense of compassion and servitude toward others! It is the antithesis of vanity.
Yet the human heart is basically vanity. Since love is the exact opposite of hatred, and hatred is the result of jealousy, greed and vanity, then it is vital you come to understand that human beings hate––naturally!
Regardless as to how many like to “kid” themselves about being devoid of hate and various baser qualities of human nature––unless they have been totally conquered of God, totally converted by the receiving of His Spirit––they will just naturally have hate in their heart.
It’s natural to hate. It’s human!
You Were MADE to Overcome
But does this mean every human being should learn to hate? Of course not––he will hate without having to learn.
The Great God, in His wisdom, has made human nature what it is. But He has made human nature to be overcome. Man is a creature of free moral agency. Only man has the ability, through the human senses and the mind of man, to observe, measure, weigh, discern,––and to arrive at decisions, based upon his observations. Only man is a calculating, deciding creature! Man is not an animal. Man is on a plane and a level far above that of animals.
The mind of man, the nature of man, were created for a great and awe-inspiring purpose!
How God Deals With Mobs
Today, God is keeping hands off this evil, rotten, topsy-turvy, sin-sick, crime-ridden, hate-filled world! But not for long.
Soon, and a lot sooner than we may wish to kid ourselves into believing, Almighty God is going to send Jesus Christ in the all-powerful splendor of the Great Creator of heaven and earth back to this earth. And Jesus is coming to deal with a mob! Read it in your own Bible:
“I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns;…He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of His mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations: and He shall rule them with a rod of iron….”(Rev. 19:11-16).
Jesus Christ of Nazareth is coming back to this earth in all the awesome splendor of the Great God of the universe! He is coming with armies––and He is coming to fight! God’s tolerance has about run out. God’s patience is about exhausted. God’s wrath and His great anger are almost ripe.
The time is just around the corner from us in world events when God’s Kingdom will be set up on this literal earth! And then Jesus Christ will deal, and deal awesomely, forcefully and swiftly, with mobs!
Jesus urged every Christian, in the Sermon on the Mount, to pray “thy Kingdom come”! (Matt. 6:10.) That means every Christian, like righteous Lot, should be sincerely praying for the Kingdom, the rule, the power and authority of the Kingdom of God to come to this earth!
It’s time you came to see, and see clearly and thoroughly, that man is totally incapable of solving his own problems.
That’s why Almighty God must send Jesus Christ to save us from ourselves!
