Why are so many young people adrift and in trouble with the law?
Many young people are adrift and in trouble with the law because they have not been given inhibitions to restrain the old Adamic nature. That nature is rebellious against God and sinful in all its appetites; when inhibitions and good home upbringing are absent, it is let free rather than kept in check.
Les explains that the old Adamic nature is the nature we are born with, and it is rebellious against God and sinful in all of its appetites. Normally, people clean it up and keep it in check with inhibitions and what he calls a good home upbringing. But when the younger generation is not even given any inhibitions to that Adamic nature, it is let free. The result is that many are adrift, have no principles, and are in trouble with the law. This connects to the believer being dead to the old Adam and setting affection on things above, not on things on the earth.