The sinful nature

• 1. What really ails human beings?

2. A dark knight rises James Eagan Holmes(born December13, 1987) is thesuspected perpetratorof a mass shootingthat occurred on July20, 2012, at a movietheater inAurora, Colorado. 3. The dark knight rises Christopher Nolan directed The DarkKnight Rises was having its firstscreenings. A similar shooting scene was portrayedin the movie. 12 people are dead as a result and morethan fifty people are injured. 4. A more recent one Recently, (05.08.12)Wade Michael Page, aformer US armyveteran killed sixSikhs in Oak CreekGurudwara,Wisconsin. 5. A country full of dark knights The United States of America is acountry where lethal weapons areavailable so easily. No political leader is willing to tightenthe laws regarding gun procurement.(Americas gun psychosis, The Hindudated 07.08.12) 6. A country full of dark knights So many persons in the USA have theunfortunate predilection of wielding them. Wikipedia list:- List of serial killers bycountry Argentina two Belarus one Germany 17 But USA?? A separate page full 7. Movie inspired villains? Recently, in Tamil Nadu, a studentstabbed his school teacher multipletimes thereby killing her. When questioned, he told that watchinga particular scene in Agneepath drovehim to despair. 8. Movie inspired villains? After the screening of Ek Duuje KeLiye, few decades ago, many desperatelovers flung themselves from the top ofmountain cliffs in mother India. 9. Can we blame movies? Few people like James indeed look at themovies as a how-to-manual to fix theirproblematic existence. Hence, it is easier to blame a movie thantry to address the complex calculationsthat result in an individuals descentinto momentary madness. 10. Can we blame movies? Many write about films as a cause if notthe cause for social rot. For them, cinema is an assiduous weevilgnawing away at the roots of our modernday lives. 11. What about good movies? There were lots of good moviesportraying about national leaders like ,Ambedkar, Gandhiji, Kamaraj and EVRaPeriyar. There was no news item indicating thatso many people were changed in theirbehaviour after watching these fantasticmovies. 12. What about good movies? There is no such news items sincenobody basically changes after watchingthose movies. Then how can we blame the badbehaviour alone as a result of watchingbad movies? 13. Whom to blame? If cinema cannot be found to encouragepositive behaviours, then why should weblame films for depicting negativeattitudes?- Baradwaj Rangan- The Hindu dated 24.07.12 14. Anders Behring Breivik Anders BehringBreivik (born13 February 1979) is aNorwegian accusedmassmurderer,terroristand the confessedperpetrator of the 2011attacks in Norway. 15. Anders Behring Breivik On 22 July 2011, Breivik bombed thegovernment buildings in Oslo, whichresulted in eight deaths. He then carried out a mass shooting at acamp of the Workers Youth League(AUF) of the Labour Party on the islandof Utya where he killed 69 people,mostly teenagers. 16. Prepared by video games He used to play video games such as Callof Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and World ofWarcraft to relax and for "training-simulation. He further told a court in April 2012 thathe trained for shooting using aholographic device while playing Call ofDuty. 17. Prepared by video games He surfed the web full time for severalyears including daily training on theshooting games. He claimed it helped him gain targetacquisition. 18. Can we blame video games? Andrew Keen, an expert at Breiviks trialtold that his virtual and real worldsbecame indistinguishable. The US Supreme Court acknowledged inJune 2011 that violent online videogames are a social problem. 19. Can we blame video games? In the month of May 2012, a high rankingBritish legislator suggested increasedcontrols over some gaming content as itwas done in China and South Korea. But there are quite lot of good videogames too. What about them??? 20. What is the mirror behind thescreen? What is the real cause of trouble? What does the mirror behind the screentells us? What is the image we are seeing at theback of each social evil? 21. Why? Why? Why? We are living in fallen world. 22. God gave a simplecommand. Dont eat aparticular fruit inthe middle ofgarden of Eden. 23. The serpent wentto Eve andmesmerized herwith the so calledgood qualities ofthe forbiddenfruit. 24. The fruitappeared goodand tasty. So sheplucked it, atesome andlovingly gave it toAdam. Adam atethe forbiddenfruit. 25. Why? Why? Why? Therefore, asthrough one man sinentered theworld, and and thus deathspread to allmen, because allsinned.Romans 5:12death through sin, 26. Sinful right from Birth Surely I was sinful at birth,sinful from the time my motherconceived me.Psalms 51:5 27. [email protected] 19 For I do not do the good I want todo, but the evil I do not want to dothisI keep on doing. 22 For in my inner being I delight in Godslaw;Romans 7:19,22 28. [email protected] 23 but I see another law at work in me,waging war against the law of my mindand making me a prisoner of the law ofsin at work within me.Romans 7:23 29. Who will deliverme? 30. Can we purify ourselves? Most of the time, we try to purifyourselves by running here and there. We try to become cleansed by doinggood things. 31. Can we purify ourselves? Who can say, I have kept my heart pure;I am clean and without sin?Proverbs 20:9 32. It is not possible Can a person change the colour of hisskin (emphasis added)or a leopard its spots?Neither can you do goodwho are accustomed to doing evil.Jeremiah 13:23 33. Only God can cleanse us Have mercy on me, O God,according to your unfailing love;according to your great compassionblot out my transgressions.2 Wash away all my iniquityand cleanse me from my sin.Psalms 51:1,2 34. Christ Jesus sets us free Therefore, there is now nocondemnation for those who are inChrist Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law ofthe Spirit who gives life has set you freefrom the law of sin and death.Romans 8:1,2 35. God can indeed set us free Sin is the real cause of all troubles. It may or may not be aggravated byseeing a particular movie or playing avideo games. But, the real trouble, the root of all evilis inside each one of us. 36. God can indeed set us free We may or may not be slaves to moviesand games but are slaves to sin. The good news this morning is God canindeed set us free from this body ofdeath. God gave his only begotten Son JesusChrist for destroying the work of thissinful nature. 37. Do we have the freedom? We have to examine ourselves thismorning. Do we really enjoy this freedom whichcomes free of cost to all human beings? If not, let us turn back to God andreceive this greatest blessing whichcomes through Jesus Christ. 38. Blessed is he/she Blessed is the onewhose transgressions are forgiven,whose sins are covered.2 Blessed is the onewhose sin the LORD does not countagainst themand in whose spirit is no deceit.Psalm 32:1,2