Rightly Dividing
The following excerpt was copied from "Rightly Dividing The Word" by Dr. Clarence Larkin. I thought it was very descriptive. I don't know about you but the older I get the more I fight my sin nature. I thought it was going to get easier but I guess not. When we have youth on our side, we have health and physical abilities and a mind free from some of the entanglements of soured relationships. Thank goodness my relationship with Jesus is not based on feelings! I thought these two paragraphs were very descriptive and certainly made me to understand that EVEN MY HEART is deceitfully wicked!!! I made "even my heart" bold because the light of God's word always points out my pride and arrogance in thinking that I may be more than I really am! Lord, please forgive me!!!
"What does the Bible say about the human heart? Listen. "The heart is
deceitful above all things and desperately wicked: who can know it."
Jer 17:9. One day Jesus dissected the human heart for the benefit of His
Disciples. Read what He said-- "For from within, out of the heart of men,
proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,
covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye,
blasphemy, pride, foolishness." Mr 7:21-22. Here are 13 specifications
that outline the character of the human heart; can any one read them and
say, "That does not describe my heart?"
In fruit there is a tendency to rot and decay, and unless preserved it will
soon perish. So it is with the "root principle" of sin in the human heart.
Out of Christ there is no difference between men. Take a man honest,
honorable, truthful, upright, benevolent; take a woman pure, chaste,
amiable, gentle, meek, the embodiment of all loveliness: take some
sweet girl, pure as a lily, the light of the household, a living joy: take a
little child, innocent, the heaven-sent prattler of the fireside, and as
unspotted as the new fallen snow; and what is the difference between any
of these and the lost spirits, the sin-saturated souls hating and bated,
cursing and cursed, blaspheming and damned that writhe in Hell? It is
simply the difference between meal into which the leaven has been
placed, and meal in which the leaven has done its work. It is simply a
difference as to time and development. The batch of meal that has been
leavened cannot take the leaven out of itself, neither can it prevent the
leaven front doing its work. Its final state is only a question of Time. If
men and women go into the other world without having the leaven of sin
eradicated by the "BLOOD OF JESUS," the leaven of sin will continue to
work on down the Eternal Ages, and they will grow worse and worse as
eternity rolls on, until they shall become as bad as the demons in Hell.
The leper was just as truly a leper the moment the first taint of leprosy
entered his system, as he was when he sat a loathsome creature outside
the city walls and cried "Unclean! Unclean!" "
"What does the Bible say about the human heart? Listen. "The heart is
deceitful above all things and desperately wicked: who can know it."
Jer 17:9. One day Jesus dissected the human heart for the benefit of His
Disciples. Read what He said-- "For from within, out of the heart of men,
proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,
covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye,
blasphemy, pride, foolishness." Mr 7:21-22. Here are 13 specifications
that outline the character of the human heart; can any one read them and
say, "That does not describe my heart?"
In fruit there is a tendency to rot and decay, and unless preserved it will
soon perish. So it is with the "root principle" of sin in the human heart.
Out of Christ there is no difference between men. Take a man honest,
honorable, truthful, upright, benevolent; take a woman pure, chaste,
amiable, gentle, meek, the embodiment of all loveliness: take some
sweet girl, pure as a lily, the light of the household, a living joy: take a
little child, innocent, the heaven-sent prattler of the fireside, and as
unspotted as the new fallen snow; and what is the difference between any
of these and the lost spirits, the sin-saturated souls hating and bated,
cursing and cursed, blaspheming and damned that writhe in Hell? It is
simply the difference between meal into which the leaven has been
placed, and meal in which the leaven has done its work. It is simply a
difference as to time and development. The batch of meal that has been
leavened cannot take the leaven out of itself, neither can it prevent the
leaven front doing its work. Its final state is only a question of Time. If
men and women go into the other world without having the leaven of sin
eradicated by the "BLOOD OF JESUS," the leaven of sin will continue to
work on down the Eternal Ages, and they will grow worse and worse as
eternity rolls on, until they shall become as bad as the demons in Hell.
The leper was just as truly a leper the moment the first taint of leprosy
entered his system, as he was when he sat a loathsome creature outside
the city walls and cried "Unclean! Unclean!" "
posted by momlinda1945 | 8:43 AM
1 Comments:
This was very good, Linda. Thanks for sharing. Kind of went along with what we chatted about earlier, I thought.
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