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Edwin Elisha James is an Evangelist whose commitment to preach wherever the Lord leads him has fructified in bringing hundreds of souls to the Lord - a dream and a desire that he has harboured for the longest time!

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Nature of the evil heart

A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations

Proverbs 6:18

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,

A perverse heart

Proverbs 11:20

The LORD detests men of perverse heart but he delights in those whose ways are blameless.

A heart full of evil

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of men, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead.

A heart fully set to do evil

Ecclesiastes 8:11

When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong.

The heart is deceitful above all things

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

It is far from God

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.

Matthew 15:8

“‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

He prepared not his heart to seek the Lord

2 Chronicles 12:14

He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the LORD.



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