Man's heart was corrupted with the mystery of iniquity that entered into man-kind through Adam's transgression and it is passed on through the blood which is one of the reasons why Jesus had to be born from the Holy Spirit to by-pass the blood of man contaminating Him.
In the OT man's heart was desperately wicked because people were still "in Adam". The heart is the old man that was in Adam but now that Christ has came - we believers have a new heart. We have a new inner man of the heart now in Christ.
Get this wrong and we create a doctrine of a "new evolution" instead of a new creation in Christ.
We create an works-based humanistic mindset that actually denies the work of the Lord Jesus Christ by trying to achieve through what we do - what Christ has already done in His finished work on the cross and resurrection.
In the next post I will show that believers in Christ have a new heart now. I believe the understanding of this is vital to growing up in the Lord. We need to get our "identity" correct.
In the OT man's heart was desperately wicked because people were still "in Adam". The heart is the old man that was in Adam but now that Christ has came - we believers have a new heart. We have a new inner man of the heart now in Christ.
Get this wrong and we create a doctrine of a "new evolution" instead of a new creation in Christ.
We create an works-based humanistic mindset that actually denies the work of the Lord Jesus Christ by trying to achieve through what we do - what Christ has already done in His finished work on the cross and resurrection.
In the next post I will show that believers in Christ have a new heart now. I believe the understanding of this is vital to growing up in the Lord. We need to get our "identity" correct.
There is no "evolution".
Man's nature will never change.
There's nothing new under the sun.
With all our technology, WE are still the same as in Adam's time.
Jesus wanted a new "type" of person.
One with a soft heart and with both feet in the Kingdom.
Not easy to do.
And not every Christian has a soft heart.
It's noticeable right here on these threads.
Some are rather harsh and critical. Both on this thread and elsewhere.
I feel it's important to tell people that THEY must work on becoming more and more like Jesus.
The Holy Spirit is there to help, but will not do all the work.
If He did, why aren't we all the same??