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DATE: SATURDAY AUGUST 24, 2024
TOPIC: DECEPTION OF THE HEART
TEXT: JEREMIAH 17:9-10
KEY VERSE: JEREMIAH 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked: who can know it?
From the text, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? You have a heart but your heart can deceive you. Your heart can tell you all is well, when actually all is not well. Your heart can be excusing you, saying I am not involved.
Before I came here, I already examined myself, I already settled myself, so nothing is happening to me. I am not part of what they are saying. It is a deceit. That is what the heart can do. As a result, instead of paying attention and speaking like the psalmist, ‘Examine me O Lord and know my ways and see if there is any wicked thing in me.’
You will now say, ‘God you know I have settled with you so I don't have any problem.’ Instead of saying, “That which I know not, teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more.” No, your heart deceives you and says, ‘Which iniquity?’ Deception of the heart.
Many go to hell and wonder why they are there because their hearts deceived them. Do you think that people in these churches where the sound truth of God is not taught, know that they are sinners? Do you think that their pastors themselves know that they are not on the right way?
Many of them, even with sin in their lives, their hearts have been put in a condition that says they are fit for heaven. That is why when you talk about knowing Jesus, they respond, “Which Jesus? I know Him, I love Him. He died for me, yes, I am a Christian.” But as you look at the person saying that he is a Christian, he is not near the kingdom of God but the heart has deceived him.
Do not serve God with a deceived heart. Instead of allowing God to search you, accepting your sins and the revelations of God about you, you will say, “No. I am not the one” and the time of your cleansing passes away.
Thought for the day: The heart of man is deceitful above all things
Song for the day: Lord I want to be like Jesus in my heart
Bible reading for the day: Ezekiel 1-4
#Horemow.
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