Great God, You are a dreadful God who
will and must punish sin.
I pray right now, Lord, that Your Holy
Spirit will attend the reading of Your Word
and the preaching of this message, and that
Your Spirit will speak to hearts and disturb
people.
I pray these things in the strong name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
I heard a man say he had a
friend in the hospital who was dying because
he had a poison in his blood, and
this man was too far gone to have
any hope of recovery.
But I submit to You, friends, that all
men have a poison in their blood that
will one day kill them.
Every mother's son comes into this world with
a poison in his blood, a ruined nature,
and a bent toward sin.
I'm going to show you today, friends, examples
of how bad off man really is and
just how hopeless his condition is.
I'm going to walk you through the Bible
from Genesis to Revelation and demonstrate to you
just how ruined man really is in his
natural state.
The book of Job describes man's corrupt nature
this way, How much more abominable and filthy
is man, which drinketh iniquity like water.
And in Jeremiah 17 9 we see how
corrupt the human heart really is.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked.
Who can know it?
Listen to me, friend.
Man is in bad shape.
Look at Genesis 3 17.
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast
hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and
hast eaten of the tree of which I
commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of
it.
Cursed is the ground for thy sake.
In sorrow shalt thou eat of it all
the days of thy life.
Man, in his natural condition, is alienated from
God and under a curse.
Old Adam was under a curse, and so
was your nature cursed.
You have a ruined nature because of Adam's
fall.
We are sons of fallen Adam.
I was born of a father, and when
I was born in the flesh, he bequeathed
to me what he was in the flesh,
in the likeness of Adam, in the natural
birth.
And that gave me poison in my blood.
And look what that poison in the blood
produced, friends, the world's first murderer.
In Genesis 4 8 we read, And Cain
talked with Abel his brother, and it came
to pass, when they were in the field,
that Cain rose up against Abel his brother
and slew him.
Because of that poison in the blood, man
has a sin problem.
Jesus said so in Matthew 15 19.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
Listen, friends, our theme of poison in the
blood is again seen in Genesis 6 5
-7.
And God saw that the wickedness of man
was great in the earth, and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually.
And it repented the Lord that he had
made man on the earth, and it grieved
him at his heart.
And the Lord said, I will destroy man
whom I have created from the face of
the earth.
Does this not bring confirmation once again, friends,
that man has a poison in his blood?
And because of man's poison in his blood,
Almighty God drowned the old world, save Noah
and his family.
And I want to present more evidence to
you, turning your Bibles to Genesis 18 20,
to see more poison in the blood.
And the Lord said, Because the cry of
Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their
sin is very grievous, what kind of people
were the Sodomites?
They were homosexuals, and the cry that reached
heaven was the cry of rape.
The burning of Sodom is another example of
man's poison in his blood.
We have an eyewitness account of the destruction
of those cities of the plain.
Genesis chapter 19, and in verses 27 and
28, describes the terrible scene.
And Abraham got up early in the morning
to the place where he stood before the
Lord.
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and
toward all the land of the plain.
And beheld, and lo, the smoke of the
country went up as the smoke of a
furnace.
Old Abraham stood there trembling, friends, as he
saw the result of man's poison in the
blood.
And as you go through your Bible, you
will see instance after instance of example after
example of man's poison in the blood.
We read a laundry list of man's poison
in the blood from Romans chapter 1.
For this cause God gave them up unto
vile affections, for even their women, to change
the natural use into that which is against
nature.
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural
use of the woman, burned in their lust
one toward another.
Men with men working that which is unseemly,
and receiving in themselves that recompense of their
error which was meat.
And even as they did not like to
retain God in their knowledge, God gave them
over to a reprobate mind to do those
things which are not convenient.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity,
whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters,
inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without
understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable,
unmerciful, who know in the judgment of God
that they which commit such things are worthy
of death, not only do the same, but
have pleasure in them that do them.
Just look around at the world today, friends,
and agree with me that man has a
poison in his blood, the pornography that floods
our homes under the guise of entertainment, the
drunkenness and debauchery that will take place in
this city tonight, the prostitution and fornication that
is rampant throughout our nation today.
We live in a sin-soaked society, and
we have become desensitized to sin.
Man has a poison in his blood, and
this culminates in the final book of the
Bible, in Revelation chapter 21 and verse 8,
it states, But the fearful, and unbelieving, and
the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers,
and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their
part in the lake which burneth with fire
and brimstone, which is the second death.
Well, hopefully, friends, I have presented enough evidence
today of man's ruined nature and the poison
in his blood because of sin.
Man is doomed to be damned in the
devil's hell.
There is only one remedy and refuge for
sin in the person of Christ Jesus.
Listen, friends, I know I am a sinner,
and I need a substitute for sin, and
so do you, friend, so do you.
We are told in the Bible that Christ
died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
and that he was buried, and that he
rose again the third day according to the
Scriptures.
Listen, friends, over in Revelation we read, And
nailed him to a cross.
Look at that blessed man on that cross.
See him there with his arms outstretched, beckoning
you to come to him and believe on
him.
Look at that bloodstained Savior from sin.
When all was against him, his love flows
out to a world of guilty sinners.
Look at that man on that cross.
Isaiah declares, Look unto me, and be ye
saved.
All the ends of the earth, for I
am God, and there is none else.
Listen, friend, if you remain in your lost
condition, you will surely die in your sins
and be cast into the torments of hell.
You have a poison in your blood, and
there is only one remedy for sin, and
that is Christ Jesus.
You must get under his blood for pardon
of sin.
The cross is the place where wicked men
sought to get rid of him, but by
his death it becomes the place where his
saving power flows out to all who come
in repentance, confessing they are sinners and own
them as their Savior and Lord.
If you've not trusted this blessed Savior, receive
him now before it's too late.
Soon he will come in judgment on this
world when his anger shall burn as an
oven, and then you shall meet him as
your judge.
Listen, friend, herein is love, not that we
love God, but that he loved us and
sent his Son to be the propitiation for
our sins.
Well, I'm going to sing a hymn, friend,
and if God has been dealing with your
soul through this message, I want you to
get serious with God and come believe on
his Son, Jesus Christ, who is the pearl
of great price, worth selling off for and
losing off for so he may be gained.
You come as I sing.
What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Oh, precious is the flow that makes me
white as snow.
No other fount I know.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.