1. James 1:14 (ESV)
  2. Application

Denying the truth about man's nature

James 1:14 (ESV)

14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

One of the real great problems involved in our depravity and our corruption by nature is our proneness to deny the very truth about our own nature. We are by nature prone to be deceived about this. There are thousands and thousands of people all around us who are deceived about this. They just do not believe that they or others are fundamentally and basically wicked and in desperate need of a new birth, a new creation from heaven above, to make them different.1

G. I. Williamson