THE HEART OF MAN?
I HAVE KNOWN MINISTERS IN THE PAST WHO TAUGHT, THE NATURAL HEART OF MAN IS DECEITFUL AND DESPERATELY WICKED.
WHERE DID THEY GET THIS IDEA FROM?
WELL THE SCRIPTURES.......KIND OF.
THEY WOULD QUOTE JEREMIAH 17: 9.
THEIR YOU HAVE IT THEY WOULD SAY; SO SAYS THE BIBLE THEY WOULD SAY.
WEEELLLL...... NO THE BIBLE SAYS NO SUCH THING.
A LOT OF THESE MINISTERS I'VE KNOWN ALSO KNEW THAT ANY ITALIC WORDS IN THE KJV BIBLE, MEANT THEY WERE NOT IN THE ORIGINAL HEBREW MSS.
THE WORDS "IS" "THINGS" IS NOT IN THE HEBREW!
IS THE NATURAL HEART OF A BABY BORN WITH DECEITFULNESS AND IS IT DESPERATELY WICKED?
LET JESUS ANSWER:
"A GOOD MAN OUT OF THE GOOD TREASURE OF HIS HEART BRINGS FORTH THAT WHICH IS GOOD; AND AN EVIL MAN OUT OF THE EVIL TREASURE OF HIS HEART BRINGS FORTH THAT WHICH IS EVIL; FOR OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART HIS MOUTH SPEAKS" (Luke 6:45).
FIRST THE HEART MUST COLLECT AN ABUNDANCE.......OF WHATEVER, TO BE A HEART OF ABUNDANCE.
A BABY AND A LITTLE TODDLER, AND LITTLE CHILD, HAS HARDLY COLLECTED AN ABUNDANCE OF HEART.
I'M GOING TO GIVE A SCRIPTURE YOU NEED TO MARK, COLOR IT YELLOW, BUT MARK IT.......
"MOREOVER YOUR LITTLE ONES, WHICH YOU SAID SHOULD BE PREY, AND YOUR CHILDREN, WHICH IN THAT DAY, HAD NO KNOWLEDGE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL......"
AH THERE IS A TIME WHEN LITTLE ONES DO NOT KNOWN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL!
OF COURSE NOT! THEIR MIND IS CLEAR OF EVIL AND GOOD; THEY ARE BORN WITH A CLEAN SLATE OF MIND. THEIR MIND/HEART IS NOT BORN WITH EVIL WRITTEN UPON IT.
A CHILD'S HEART MUST COLLECT ABUNDANCE OF THINGS FROM BIRTH.
FROM ITS PARENTS, FROM ITS FAMILY RELATIVES, FROM ITS FRIENDS, FROM ALL OUTSIDE SOURSES, A CHILD'S HEART COLLECTS AN ABUNDANCE.
SO THE HEART OF THAT CHILD MOVES AS TO WHAT ABUNDANCE IT COLLECTS.....MORE EVIL THAN GOOD, MORE GOOD THAN EVIL.
THEN WHEN GROWING INTO AN ADULT THE HEART OF THAT YOUNG PERSON [AND EVENTUALLY ADULT] WILL SHOW FORTH THE ABUNDANCE OF WHAT IT HAS COLLECTED.....AND WITH ALL THE OUTSIDE WORLD THAT HEART MOVES WITHIN, IT WILL BRING FORTH, AS JESUS PUT IT IN A GENERAL OVERALL, GOOD OR EVIL.
THIS DOES NOT MEAN THERE IS NO SIN IN THAT PERSON. PAUL WAS INSPIRED TO SAY, ALL HAVE SINNED. IT MEANS THAT AS THE GENERAL WORLD LOOKS ON THINGS.....SOME HEARTS ARE GOOD AND SOME ARE EVIL, DEPENDING ON WHAT THAT HEART COLLECTED AS AN ABUNDANCE.
YOU'VE SEEN IT; SOME PEOPLE ARE LAW ABIDING CITIZENS, THEY ARE "NICE" - THEY ARE WELL BEHAVED, THEY ARE KIND, THEY ARE GIVING, THEY CONTROL THEIR EMOTIONS, THEY ARE NEVER BAD TEMPERED, THEY SPEAK NICELY, THEY DO NOT BACK-BITE, THEY ARE IN THE OVERALL OF LIFE WHAT WE WOULD CALL "GOOD." THEY HAVE HAD GOOD INFLUENCES IN THEIR CHILDHOOD AND TEENS AND ADULTHOOD.
THEN THERE IS THE OPPOSITE: CHILDREN WITH NOT "GOOD" PARENTS; CHILDREN WITH BAD INFLUENCES; GOING INTO TEENAGE YEARS WITH EVIL INFLUENCES; AND WITHOUT MUCH "GOOD" ABUNDANCES IN THEIR LIVES, THEY GROW UP TO BRING FORTH FROM THE ABUNDANCE OF THEIR HEART THAT WHICH IS EVIL, IN MIND, WORDS, AND ACTIONS.
THE NATURAL HEART/MIND A CHILD IS BORN WITH IS A CLEAN SLATE...... DEPENDING ON MANY MANY FACTORS IN THE LIFE OF THAT TODDLER AND YOUNG CHILD, AND TEENAGER, SO THE HEART WILL BRING FORTH FROM ITS ABUNDANCE, IN THE MAIN "GOOD" OR "EVIL."
SO WHAT ABOUT JEREMIAH 17: 9
THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD READ: "THE HEART CAN BE [THE WORD "IS" NOT IN THE HEBREW] DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL ["THINGS" NOT IN THE HEBREW] AND DESPERATELY WICKED; WHO CAN KNOW IT?"
THE ANSWER: "I THE LORD SEARCH THE HEART, I TRY THE REINS [HOW WE ARE GUIDED] EVEN TO GIVE EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO THE FRUIT OF HIS DOINGS" (verse 10).
WHAT WE TAKE IN, WHAT WE SOAK UP WITH OUR SPONGE BRAIN OVER TIME, WILL MANIFEST ITSELF IN AN OVERALL BASIC LIFE, WHICH JESUS PUT IN GENERAL TERMS AS "GOOD" OR "EVIL."
Keith Hunt
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