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God’s design for man has never changed.

Man simply switched kingdoms. He changed

masters. Sin has made man a servant of

God’s enemy, Satan. “Know ye not, that to

whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey,

his servants ye are to whom ye obey;

whether of sin unto death, or of obedience

unto righteousness?” (Romans 6:16). Man

did not lose his dominion he simply sold

himself to exercise it under Satan’s laws, with

Satan’s schemes and stratagems. And as a

result of switching kingdoms, man’s

condition apart from Christ is one of

degradation and loss.

For man is “by nature The Law of God is as

the children of sacred as Himself,

wrath” and is “dead therefore only One

in trespasses and equal with God could

sins” (Ephesians 2:3, make atonement for

1, 5). His “carnal its transgression.

mind is enmity Only Christ could

against God: for it is atone for man’s sin

not subject to the law and meet the just

of God, neither claims of the broken

indeed can be” law.