Dark Rivers of the Heart - Pete Garcia -http://www.omegaletter.com/articles/articles.asp?ArticleID=8302
"The heart IS deceitful above all things. And desperately wicked; Who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9
Two of the most tragic deceptions ever foisted upon mankind, is that a) it's not our fault, and b) that we can fix ourselves. In fact, every belief system outside of the true Christian faith to one degree or another, plays off one or the other. The Christian faith however, lays the blame solely on our sin nature and on our inability to fix ourselves, by ourselves...which is why the world hates Christianity and to an even greater degree, Jesus Christ.
When Jesus began His ministry at the age of 30, He began to challenge the religious and moral authorities of His time. He stated that adultery wasn't just the actual physical act itself, but that the intentions of the heart were equally culpable. Murder wasn't just the act itself, but equally damning, was the seed of hate that first takes root in the human heart. Likewise, it wasn't what a man put into his mouth that corrupted him, but what came out because that came from the heart, and the heart was corrupted. In other words, Christ had the audacity to call sin for what it was, a heart problem, and the Pharisees and the Sadducees killed Him for it. They killed Him because it removed our ability to remedy the sin situation through religious piety, which was their livelihood.
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