A few years ago, the great tennis player Arthur Ashe died of AIDS contracted through tainted blood given to him during heart surgery. But when the blood was pumped into Arthur Ashe, it contained the deadly AIDS virus that eventually took his life.
Every person is born with a tendency to do wrong.
We're all born with a sin nature. We may not like to face this truth about ourselves, and protest that we had nothing to do with Adam's sin. A friend told me that his father has gout and three of the sons also have gout. But just as we had nothing to do with the physical characteristics we inherited from our parents, so we inherited a sin nature from Adam because he's at the root of every family tree in the whole human race. Father, You sent Your Son to overcome the power of sin.