But the heart is deceitful above all things. Many animals are deceitful. But the natural heart is more deceitful than a serpent above all things. It is deceitful in two ways in deceiving others and itself. In deceiving others.
Every natural man is a hypocrite.
He is different in reality from what he appears to be. I undertake to say, that there is not a natural man present here today in his true colours. If every natural man here were to throw off his disguise, and appear as he really is, this church would look more like the gate of hell than the gate of heaven. Because natural men are deceitful because you draw a cloak over your heart, and put on a smooth face, and make the outside of a saint cover the heart of a fiend. Every natural man is a flatterer.