Saturday, August 26, 2006

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Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

A couple verses that touch on this topic would be:
Pro 23:19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Eze 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

The heart is so. It is deceitful, misleading. That is why we are to guide it and not follow it. We can make our own new hearts.

Verse 10 here in Jeremiah shows the point that this is not nature, but the way in which a man walks. Because God searches the hearts and gives to every man according to his ways, the fruit of his doings. Not Adam's ways and doings.
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