Posted on 07/04/2022 6:37:59 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel” (Proverbs 5:8-9 KJV).
People say, “Well, I think?” Who cares what you think? And what does it matter any way? What does Paul say about that? “Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise” (I Corinthians 3:18 KJV).
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 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” (Jeremiah 17:9-10 KJV).
We need to learn from Scripture. Get it in our heart and write it in there with a pen of iron and a point of diamond. Otherwise the heart will deceive you. It will make you think you need things that you really don’t need, and want things you really don’t want. When you find yourself starting to want things—look out! God is in there looking around, he searches the corners to find out what is in it. If we think that the thoughts of our heart are secret, we are crazy! God knows them, and us, completely.
“I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins,” in other words, God says “Whoa! Horse!” and you say, “No, I’m keeping on going.” “. . . even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings,” God will give you what you want.
You want a lie? God will give it to you.
“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (II Thessalonians 2:10-12 KJV).
We need to learn the danger of sin. The ability to deceive comes from doing wrong. Doing wrong blinds you from doing right. Why do people perish? Because they are deceived. Why are they deceived? Because that is what they want. They did wrong. “. . . they received not the love of the truth,” a specific love—a specific truth. The Holy Spirit will give you a love for the truth.
It also works the other way around. If you want to do right, if you want to live for God, God will give you what you want and you’ll lose what you had—bad habits, bad ways, a filthy mouth, a bad attitude—now those are good things to lose.
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