Chronicles of a Watchman by Dr. James P. Norman Jr.

TO BE IN CHRIST – THE CARNAL CHRISTIAN (PART THREE)   You say, I thought a carnal Christian was a backslider somebody for instance who used to go to church but has run off with somebody else’s wife! Oh no! That is only one kind of carnal Christian, and I would not suggest that you were that kind of carnal Christian.   No, No! I am talking about some Sunday school teachers. I am talking about some Sunday school superintendents. I am talking about some Pastor in his pulpit. I am talking about some missionary on the field. I am talking about many ordinary average earnest Christians. They are wonderful people. You would love to meet them. They talk all the language of salvation and they mean every work. They say they are not hypocrites.   They are overwhelmed inwardly with a sense of defeat, frustration, futility and bareness. When you meet them they will smile sweetly and they will mean the smile they give you. They will grip you by the hand and they will say ...

To begin, I would like to present the terms deprave/depravity which is to make morally bad or evil; the state or conduct, depraved acts like being a crooked person.  Its main operation is to come into places where peace may be there, and to bring evil or bad ungodly behavior.  This works well with in weak or very soulish religious churches. As a result of Adam's transgression, all his posterity are born in the same state into which he fell, but since the Law is the all-comprehending demand of harmony with God, all moral consequences flowing from his transgression are to be regarded as sanctions of Law, or expressions of the divine displeasure through the constitution of things which He has established.  Certain of these consequences, however, are earlier recognized than others and are of minor scope.  It will, therefore, be useful to consider them under the three aspects of depravity. Depravity Even more clear, we mean, on one hand, the lack of o...