No. So he sets himself to making excuses. `O,' says that fond mother, `I think my daughter is friendly to religion. His heart may become fully set upon the practice of lying whenever it suits his convenience, and for the good he hopes thus to gain; and it is in vain that God labors by fearful prohibitions and penalties to dissuade him from his course. Mark those locks wet with the dew. A. Alexander, D. D. Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Leam that you need conversion, or a new heart. Oh, sinner, there is no possibility that you can pass the appointed time without execution. 5 Indicators of a Wicked and Evil Heart,Leslie Vernick - Read more about spiritual life growth, Christian living, and faith. ASK GOD TO SEARCH OUR LIVES. We have done with our son! Jeremiah 17:9-10. Man does not see what the LORD sees, for man sees what is visible, but the LORD sees the heart" (1 Sam. No reasons? 3:12-13 ”Take heed brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God, But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” For this people's heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. What is the matter? Does the knowledge and belief of such facts disturb your repose? So, the question is this: When a person experiences the new birth — becomes a Christian — what happens to that diseased, deceived, self-exalting, God-opposing heart? He can not withstand such kindness and compassion. The evil heart is always on the prowl to benefit self, it is obsessed with its own goals, its own needs, its own desires. Jeremiah 17:9-"The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?" Know Your Weakness Jeremiah 17:9-10 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? How long since you heard from him? And what shall I say to my Lord and Master? Because your heart is fully set within you to do evil rather than good. They meet the sheriff. The first thing we shall look at is the heart: \"Keep thy heart...\". That amiable lady insists that she is not much depraved. Suppose an angel comes down, in robes so pure and so white; unrolls his papers, and produces a pardon in your name, sealed with Jesus' own blood. Go to the pirate ship, the captain armed to the teeth and the fire of hell in his eye; ask him to receive an offered Saviour and repent of his sins, and he gives the very same answer as that amiable daughter does -- he can not repent. The awful sentence seals his doom -- unless it be possible that pardon may be had. Of a long time they have not seen him nor even heard a word from him. They go home doubly saddened -- that he should both deserve to die for his original crimes, and also for his yet greater crime of refusing the offered pardon. But right over against this, see the case of the sinner, condemned to an eternal hell. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit” (Jeremiah 17:7–8). God says in Jeremiah 17:5–6, “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. And then he says what’s beneath that. In this sermon on Romans 10:9-10, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones examines what the apostles preached in their missionary journeys, and what true salvation looks like. He has no idea of being executed; he swears he will burn down the governor's house; indeed, he manifests a most determined spirit, as if his heart were fully set on evil. So elsewhere. Notice particularly now the language, "heart fully set to do evil." And I think everybody will be able to see how verse 9 is functioning. And his answer is verse 9: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” So, the human heart is diseased with sin and in the sway of deceit. At last the mother breaks out: Sir, are you a father? With palpitating hearts and a load on their aching bosoms, they plead and plead, but all seems to be in vain. O what a conflict in their minds! Now a man may be, as selfish in praying as in stealing, and even far more wicked: for be may more grievously mock God, and more impiously attempt to bribe the Almighty to subserve his own selfish purposes. Before atonement, justice stood with brandished sword, demanding vengeance on the guilty; but by and through atoning blood, God rescued His law from peril -- He lifted it up from beneath the impious foot of the transgressor, and set it on high in safety and glory; and now opens wide the blessed door of mercy. Jeremiah begins with an indictment of Judah and a warning of destruction. Let me ask professors of religion -- Do you think you believe these truths? Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit; why? Go to that daughter, thought to be so friendly to religion; she is so amiable and gentle that she can not bear to see any pain inflicted; but mark; present to her the claims of God and what does she say? The dreadful hour arrives, and its last moment -- the drop falls; he trembles a minute under the grasp of Death, and all is still forever! When we speak of the necessity of a change to some people, they begin to be affected by it, and so they put away some evil habits, as drinking or swearing, or lying; they put these away, and promise never to go back to them; and now they think the work is done, and they are in a fair way for heaven. The scenes and transactions of earth must excite a wonderful interest in heaven. O what a flood of emotions they pour out! Shall we turn and curse God? Your heart does condemn you, my heart condemns me when I sin because I know it is a diseased heart - but praise the Lord, God is greater! And that’s why people act suicidally in preferring self-trust over God-trust. Only think of a state of moral hardihood that can abuse God's richest mercies -- that can coolly say -- God is so good that I will abuse Him all I can; God loves me so much that I shall venture on without fear to insult Him and pervert His long-suffering to the utmost hardening of my soul in sin and rebellion. I shall live as long as the best of you." We must recognize that our hearts will not maintain a set course on their own. You may see this exemplified in the view which some take of the imputation of Christ's righteousness, which they suppose to be reckoned to them while they are living in sin. Who, they ask, is that who can sing so merrily in a prison? You might call it the divine-like DNA that is more and more being conformed to Christ. "The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." All this is very natural. Let's look at who God sees as wicked and see if we see any wicked way in us. How much do you feel? You can not repent and love God! The governor finds himself to be a father. The arrangements of the divine government require no court, no jury; the law itself says" The soul that sinneth, it shall die;" "Cursed is every one that continueth not in all the things written in the book of the law to do them;" so that the mandate of the law involves the sentence of law on every sinner -- a sentence from which there can be no escape and no reprieve except by a pardon. We know that "Christ dwelleth in your hearts by faith" (Ephesians 3:17). What's the matter? Here is another curious fact. The love of reputation fills and fires his soul, and therefore, perhaps, he becomes very polite and very amiable in his manners -- sometimes, very religious -- if religion is popular, but altogether selfish, and none the less so for being so very religious. I can not say about that. I am simply a martyr to truth and justice I At all events, I have done nothing very bad -- nothing that any government ought to notice. He is under sentence, but his sentence is not executed speedily. It is obvious that this term is used in the Bible in various shades of meaning; sometimes for the conscience, as in the passage which affirms, "If our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart," and may be expected the more to condemn us; sometimes the term is used for the intelligence; but here most evidently for the will, because this is the only faculty of the mind which can be said to be set -- fixed -- bent, determined upon a given course of voluntary action. Being well aware of where you are this morning, you … A. Prov. How striking the fact that you may go through the ranks of society and you will meet almost everywhere with this position; the sinner says, "I can not, repent -- I can not believe." But let us attend the execution of some of these sinners from our own congregation. So, he’s going to bring judgment on them for the sin of their heart and the idolatry of their worship. After this solemn transaction, execution is commonly deferred for a period longer or shorter according to circumstances. THIS text manifestly assumes that the present is not a state of rewards and punishments, in which men are treated according to their character and conduct. So God's Word solemnly affirms. The second thing we are to look is how we are to treat our own heart; what we are to do with our own heart: we are to keep it \"with all diligence\". The governor lives near, they rush to his house; but sad for them, they find him stem and inexorable. Despite of God's command, she ate it. The main text for this message was taken from the Gospel of Mark 7:20-23, with the message focused around the depraved heart of mankind. Yes, one son. Do they act as if they believed the half of its awful truths about sentenced sinners ready to go down to an eternal hell? What can be done for such sinners but leave them to the madness and doom of their choice? Bart Carlson. Given on Aug 15, 2015 by Monte Knudson Listen. Do they say, How cruel to hang a young man, and for only such a crime? Where would we be today, or in a thousand years, if God were not rich in mercy? O this horrible committal of the heart to do evil! So, my conclusion is that we can say that Jeremiah 17:9 (the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick) is true of the human heart — all of them. Our God is greater than man's depravity! We are sure this will subdue him. God waits not because He is in doubt about the justice of the sentence -- not because His heart misgives Him in view of its terrible execution; but only that He may use means with you and see if He cannot persuade you to embrace mercy. Whatever is on the inside will eventually come out—whether good or bad. Why? One man is avaricious; he sets his heart upon getting rich, honestly, if he can, but rich any way; to get money by fair means if possible, but be sure and get it. “Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin” (Jeremiah 17:3). 6:16-19 B. Mark 2:17 On hearing this, Jesus told them, "It is not the healthy who need a … Is this a very amiable trait of character in you? But they pronounce it just, and have not one word of complaint to utter. The text also shows what the moral type of the sinner's heart is: "fully set to do evil." . So everywhere, to yield to the demands of appetite and passion against God's claims, is grievous sin. The good of the nation demands it, and I can not allow my sympathies to overrule my sense of justice and my convictions of the public good. Have you a son? You don't know but this is the very day and hour set for his execution. To the yet living sinner, I have it to say today that the hour of your execution has not yet arrived. You have seen it acted over ten thousand tunes; you can look back and see it in your own case. If your own son were under sentence for execution on earth, how would you feel? Think a moment; your Saviour now offers you mercy. How astounding! Let me suppose that here is a father and also a mother in this house, and you have a child whom you know and admit to be under sentence of death. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.' And now the sheriff proclaims, "Just fifteen minutes to live;" and even these minutes be spends in abusing the governor, and insulting the majesty of law. Will you stand out against Him, and flatter yourself that He will fail of executing His awful sentence upon you? No man deems this strange at all. . You’ve heard that “deceitfully wicked” phrase from the Old Testament, but is such an indictment applicable to the regenerated Christian heart? Making this radical mistake, it conceives of the whole Gospel system as a scheme for indulgences. How often I would have saved you, but ye would not!" And who is it that says, "Their judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not?"REMARKS. . Shall Jesus behold and weep over you, and say, "O that thou hadst known, even thou in this thy day -- but now it is hidden from thine eyes?" under close confinement, until the day appointed; then to be taken forth from your prison between the hours of ten and twelve, as the case maybe, and hung by the neck until you are dead. They say they believe the Bible, but do they? This is all; this the only reason why judgment for a long time has lingered and the sword of justice has not long since smitten you down. But alas! Nay, perhaps he even sets himself to oppose and curse the government, railing at its laws and at its officers, deeming nothing too bad to say of them, indulging himself in the most outrageous opposition, abusing the very men whose mercy has spared his forfeited life! We shall do no such thing. O no, not converted, but I think she is friendly; she feels favorably toward religion. The same ends are sought in the same spirit; the moral character remains unchanged. Look at those hands. They see the need of law and justice; they know that law so outraged must be allowed to vindicate itself in the culprit's execution. Place before you that aged father and mother. In the case of this truth, every man knows that he is not himself punished as he has deserved to be in the present Every man sees the same thing in the case of his neighbors. Ah, say they, that is distressing; but we can subdue his wicked and proud heart. And how they act! John 7:39: “Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive.”, 1 Timothy 1:5: “The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart.”, 2 Corinthians 5:17: “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.”. Now, that leaves us with this question: If trusting in self results in such misery (no good shall come) and trusting in God results in such fruitfulness (you’re going to prosper), why in the world is a whole nation acting so suicidally in self-trust and sin and idolatry? What does she care for God's feelings? What ails that professor who has no spirit of prayer and no power with God? I do not at all believe He will send me to hell. 16:7). We share a citizenship with those from every nation who call upon the name of Jesus. When Samuel was looking for a man to succeed Saul as King of Israel, God said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or his stature, because I have rejected him. Our God is holier than to look upon iniquity! Does she meet the claims of God like a friend to His government and to His reputation? "You are now," says the judge, "remanded to the place from whence you came; there to be kept in irons. They can not possibly think otherwise. In the outset the mind may be powerfully affected by some of the great and stirring truths of the Gospel; but it presently comes to take an entirely selfish view, caring only to escape punishment, and make religion a matter of gain. Christian citizenship expands far beyond the country on our passport. So her daughters. Calling to his private secretary, he says, Make out a pardon for their son! Because you might have had mercy, but you would not. He prays, perhaps; but if so, he asks God to do some great things for him, to promote his own selfish purposes. The culprit takes his seat on the criminal's bench. NO, NO! Even those aged parents have not a word of complaint to utter. but since he would not, let him be accursed! those weeping eyes! It is the only reason why the Holy Ghost is needed to change the sinner's heart. Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. Or is it the case that you are so regardless of His feelings and so reckless of the truth that for the sake of self-justification, you will arraign Him on the charge of the most flagrant injustice, and falsely imply that -- the wrong is all on His side and none on yours? This is the reason that the world was destroyed by a flood - Gen. 6:5-7. But God has provided a glorious testimony in favor of law, going to show that it is in His heart to sustain it at every sacrifice, He could not forgive sin until His injured and insulted law is honored be, fore the universe. The will is the faculty which fixes itself upon a chosen course; hence in our text, the will must be meant by the term heart; for otherwise no intelligible sense can be put upon the passage. It is your own son. Heaven is solemn, but joyful; saints are solemn, yet they cannot but rejoice in their own glorious Father. Do you hear that gentle rap at your door? The text says, "Because sentence is not executed speedily," implying that sentence is already passed and only waits its appointed time for execution. not willing to be pardoned -- not willing to be saved! Hope you enjoy it He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come.” That’s the root problem of the idolatry and the sin. The heart that is wicked is the heart that has departed from God as a result of sin. But what more can we do -- what more can even God do? But we must here pause a moment to inquire what is meant in our passage by the term "heart.". God says, pray for your dying son! It is wonderful to see how in such cases the mind utterly misapprehends the design of the Gospel, quite losing sight of the great fact that it seeks to eradicate man's selfishness, and draw out his heart into pure benevolence. They tell him how much it has cost them and how tenderly the governor feels in the case. Now He comes in the person of His Spirit and invites you in. If you will abuse Him, He must execute His law, and its fearful sentence of eternal death. We will show him the pardon and tell him how the governor feels. GOD'S ANGER AGAINST THE WICKED. It is also assumed in this passage that all men have by nature a common heart. He goes to work as if he was preparing for a trial, and as if he expected to prove his innocence before the court. Selfishness takes on a thousand forms and types; but each and all are sinful, for the whole mind should give itself up to serve God and to perform every duty as revealed to the reason. When it arrives, there can be no more delay. But the agonized parents must hold on. Skip to main content ... UCG.org / Sermons / The Way of the Wicked. What is the matter? A Deceitful and Wicked Heart. O how fearfully strong is the sinner's heart against God! With bleeding heart and quivering lip has Mercy followed you. alas, young woman! You are sent for to come out for execution. Human laws may possibly fail of execution: God's laws can fail never! while their children remember their altars and their Asherim” (Jeremiah 17:1–2). We are not to suppose that men set their heart upon these sins out of love to pure wickedness; but they do wickedly for the sake of the good they hope to gain thereby. When Christ comes so near to you, and would fain draw you close to His warm heart, what will you do? This is the common method in which God speaks of sinners in His Word. Who says this is cruel? But they may take a wholly selfish view of the case, and determine to accept the proposal only just far enough to secure the rewards, and only for the sake of the rewards. Is Jeremiah 17:9 about believers, unbelievers, or both?” Pastor John, how do you process this text and its context? Mark 7:21 - For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Romans 1:21 - Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Because they saw it was beautiful, and they were told it would make them wise; hence, for the good they hoped to gain, and despite of God's prohibition, they took and ate. One general fact is asserted of them all, and in this way they are assumed to have a common character. Ah, young man! God had forbidden her to touch it: shall she obey God, or obey her own excited appetite? What! 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