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What within us leads us to sin?
"The mind of sinful man is death ...; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God" (Romans 8:6-8, NIV; compare Titus 1:15; Isaiah 55:7-8).
As human beings, we prefer to do things our own way. As a result we can easily develop, either consciously or unconsciously, resentment toward God's authority over us (Colossians 1:21). This is especially true when His instruction forbids us to do as we wish.
It then becomes easy for us to convert, usually unconsciously, our resentments—our underlying hostility toward what we may perceive as God's unnecessary interference in our affairs—into an active resistance to His commands. We simply begin to ignore some of His laws or reinterpret them to fit our own views. This is how our sinful nature, more commonly called human nature, works. These wrong attitudes begin in our minds.
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