Ecclesiastes 7:29 - “Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.”

It is false to teach that babies are born already guilty of sin. A man far wiser than any of us wrote that we are made as we ought to be - upright - but then we seek new ways. Paul wrote that all have sinned (Romans 3:23). Sin is something that we’ve chosen and done (or by choice have failed to do as we ought). God has told us this from the beginning: “the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth” (Genesis 8:21). We weren’t born with sin; when we grew old enough to make knowledgeable choices - sometime in our youth - we chose sin. And “the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). Death came upon mankind because of sin (Romans 5:12). Death of the soul - eternal separation from God - is the result in every case of sin unrepented (Luke 13:5), but when we forsake sin and turn to God He forgives completely (I John 1:9). All of us are guilty; it is nothing personal to say that you have sinned. But have you repented to God?

Ecclesiastes 8:12 - “Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him.”

Far too many Christians have been far too long making far too many excuses that the ungodly world opposes, hinders and prevents our evangelizing. Nothing in the Bible allows us that excuse. Of course the world opposes the preaching! That’s why they need the preaching. That’s why they need us. Let’s stop living like the world wants us to live, and restore the fervor for evangelism that so characterized our brothers and sisters in the first generation of the church.