ORIGINAL SIN-PT 4 WHY AS AMERICANS, DO WE NOT AT LEAST PREPARE FOR THE ETERNAL AS MUCH THE TEMPORAL

WE WILL BE SPENDING MOST OF 2025 ON THE DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF ITS IMPORTANCE VERTICALLY SPEAKING, THAT IS SALVATION, BUT ALSO HORIZONTALLY SPEAKING, THAT IS THE MORAL WELL BEING OF AMERICA, AND THUS THE PRESERVANCE OF AMERICA. ORIGINAL SIN IS INEXTRICABLY TIED,NOT ONLY OUR PERSONAL SALVATION, BUT THE PRESERVATION OF AMERICA,BEING THE LAND OF HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM, AND NOT GOING THE WAY OF ROME. JONATHON EDWARD’S TREATISE ENTITLED ‘THE GREAT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN DEFENDED’ WAS WRITTEN TO COUNTER DR. TAYLOR’S WORK DENYING THE INNATENESS OF ORIGINAL SIN. JONATHON EDWARDS WRITINGS ARE ABOVE MANY OF OUR HEADS AND THUS HARD TO UNDERSTAND, BUT IT IS GOOD FOR US AMERICANS TO ATTEMPT TO LISTEN ABOVE OUR HEADS THAT WE MIGHT GROW. WE MUST PUSH OURSELVES TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFICULT THAT WHEN WE RETREAT BACK WHAT USED TO BE HARD IS NOW EASY. SO LET PUSH OURSELVES TO LISTEN TO PICK UP AN IDEA OR SO IN EACH MESSAGE EVEN IF MUCH OF IT WAS OVER OUR HEADS, THAT IS HOW WE GROW. JONATHON EDWARDS WRITES MICROSCOPICALLY AND THUS WE HAVE TO DO THE TELESCOPIC ON OUR OWN. THE FOLLOWING IS WHAT IS BEING READ AT THE END OF THIS MESSAGE. TO SHOW HOW DEEP JONATHON EDWARDS IS, ATTEMPT TO READ IT AND SEE IF YOU CAN SEE HOW IT APPLIES TO ORIGINAL SIN, HOW ORIGINAL SIN, WARPS OUR REASONING AND THUS OUR TEMPORAL NEEDS OVERRIDE OUR ETERNAL NEEDS. THIS WILL GIVE YOU AN IDEA HOW CAREFULLY YOU MUST LISTEN IN ORDER TO GET AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HE IS PROVING. These things are often mentioned in Scripture as Evi|dences of extreme Folly and Stupidity, wherein Men act as great Enemies to themselves, as tho' they loved their own Ruin; And how can these things be accounted for, but by supposing a most WRETCHED Depravity of Na|ture? Why otherwise should not Men be as wise for themselves in spiritual and eternal Things…If any should say, 'Tis true, if Men gave full Credit to what they are told concerning eternal Things, and these appeared to 'em as real and certain Things, it would be an Evidence of a sort of Madness in them, that they shew no greater Regard to 'em in Practice: But there is Rea|son to think, this is not the Case; the Things of another World, being unseen things, appear to Men as things of a very doubtful Nature, In ANSWER, I would observe, agreeable to what has been cited from Mr. Locke, Though eternal things were considered in their bare Possibility, if Men acted rationally, they would infinitely outweigh all temporal Things in their Influence on their Hearts. And I would also ob|serve, that the supposing eternal Things not to be fully believed, at least by them who enjoy the Light of the Gospel, does not weaken, but rather strengthen the Argu|ment for the Depravity of Nature. For the eternal World being what God had chiefly in View in the Cre|ation of Men, and the Things of this World being made to be wholly subordinate to the other, Man's State here being only a State of Probation, Preparation & Progression, with respect to the future State, and so eternal Things being in Effect Men's All, their whole Concern: to un|derstand and know which, it chiefly was, that they had Un|derstandingdescriptionPAGE 62given 'em; and it concerning them infinitely more to know the Truth of eternal Things than any other, as all that are not Infidels will own; Therefore, we may undoubtedly conclude, that if Men have not Respect to 'em as real and certain Things, it cannot be for Want of sufficient Evidence of their Truth, to induce 'em so to regard them; especially as to them that live under that Light, which God has appointed as the most proper Ex|hibition of the Nature and Evidence of these Things: But it must be from a dreadful Stupidity of Mind, oc|casioning a sottish Insensibility of their Truth and Im|portance, when manifested by the clearest Evidence.