“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:19)
The writer is speaking of the seat of the emotions; not that fist sized muscle in the center of your chest.
Jesus said, “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness and blasphemies. (Matthew 15:19) Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit the writer of the Proverbs said, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23)
Ezekiel prophesied of the day when man would receive a new heart, not like the transplant Christian Barnard performed in December, 1967, but a new heart, new emotions, new motives, new life, with old things passing away and all things becoming new. It would not be a sinful heart.
The Great Physician, the Lord Jesus Christ, performs this heart surgery when a person surrenders his/her life to Christ. This is the only way to eradicate the sinful heart disease that all mankind is born with. Turn to Jesus for a radical change from the inside out.
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