We have an Inside out Problem

We have an Inside out Problem

Psalm 51:5 - Behold I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

The easiest thing for the mind to do is to push blame toward another person.   People in our society have learned to blame his or her shortcomings and lifestyle on somebody else.  When confronted with our own wickedness, it is so easy for us to say, it was because of him or her that I am in this predicament.  Or, it is their fault that my life turned out to be the way it is.

Sin is manifested and activated as a result of the information that is fed into our sin nature from the world, and the brain.  When that sin information reaches the heart, it connects with the cold, carnal area in the heart.  There the brain rationalizes that information as being acceptable or unacceptable.  If the sinful desire is acceptable with the heart and then the saying will come to pass Behold, I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me.

What is Our Heart LIke

Jeremiah 17: 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

The word deceitful means to mislead by a false appearance or statement, or trick.  This wicked heart not only misleads people, it misleads you.  This heart can give a false appearance, not just to people, but also to you.  Perverse means that this heart is willfully determined not to do what is expected or desired.  This deceitful heart does not have what it takes to be faithful to anything-God or man.  This heart perverse and corrupt and severely, mortally sick.  Severely means grave, critical or harsh.  It is of extreme, intense violence in character and nature.  This heart destroys everything that it touches.  It can act fine for a little while, but this heart eventually tears up relationships.  It is harsh, not kind.  This heart will lead you to your grace.

Be Careful when Dealing with Ignorant Folks

Ephesians 4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Interpretation- Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is beclouded.  They are alienated - estranged, self-banished from the life of God with no share in it, this is because of the ignorence (the want of knowledge and perception, the willful blindness) that is deep-seated in them, due to their hardness of heart (to the insensitiveness of their moral nature).