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man-eyerything there is, sensi-
bility, intellect and all. Blessed
is the pure in heart" for that man
shall see God. There are num-
ber of other passages which have
the same thought-the heart indi-
eating the whole of the manner and
not some separate and distinct
part. So, 1.-The fool hath said in
his heart lin the inner NAM there
is no God. Not in his head SIM
ply, but in his inner man ''there
is no God" Why did he say this?
Because of the condition of his
heart. What conditions The heart
empty, mind darkened, and past
feeling is descriptive of the entire
character and mans moral relation
to God. / wish to carry you at
once back to the book of Genesis
and give you a passage from the
3rd chapter, beginning with the
3rd verse and reading on, and the
next verse is what / want to en-
phasize, "W hen the woman saw"
etc. Not when she did eat but.
''when she saw" Now here, my
Christian people, want to draw
right close up to you. The world
has not a clear conception of what
sin is. Sin was committed when
the woman saw the fruit; before
she had ever worked her lips or
moved her fingers, sin had been
displayed and she desired the food.
This was a contradiction of Gods
word and command, and hence a
sin in His sight. This was the
condition of the heart, the inner
life, the inner man, the soul looked
out and saw and desired to have,
which was wrong and also trans
gression. Now this will emphasize
the condition of the heart in part
and l will give you yet another
passage. Gen. 6:5. Here is what
God saw. | never lived in place
of very much size in my life but
what there were always some peo-
pie who talked too much, nearly
everybody does that. Now, here
is not what some gossip told God;
not what some particular friend
of God told him; not what God |
saw himself. And God saw
wickedness of man great in earth,
and that every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually" What did God
see? (Repeats the verse) Just
how wicked we will try to deter
mine a little further on. Bear with
me to make a remark here. Be-
tween the word "every" and "imag-
ination" there is word not trans
lated in the text, which means
''frame or form. So we will put
that word in here that every form
of imagination in mans heart is
evil continually. Bear with me
yet again. THE thoughts of the
imagination. l sit down and med
itate and in my meditations l draw
a picture before me in my mind,
and we all know this is building
air castles. These air castles are
my imagination; as we imagine we
see so and so. God looked down
upon mankind and saw that every
imagination, even form of imagi-
nation and every frame of imagina- |
tion and his thoughts were evil, |
and evil continually Where did he |
find it? Seated in mans heart; |
because that heart was wicked and 1
in an evil condition. How? Con- '
Everyone is evil, but the
form of thoughts are evil and l
think a man in that condition is I
quite capable of making the state j
ment; 'there is no God" But one
might say, 'neither shall they c
walk any more, etc. Talking of {
the things of the Jewish nationality q
"shall not walk any more after the I
evil imagation of their hearts" evil /
hearts. In 18th chapter, 9th verse I
this statement; "The heart is de- {
ceitful above all things and des- &
perately wicked" Who can know q
It? Think OF snake, think OF a c
ferocious animal of any known '
kind; just stop and draw picture !
of anything that is deceitful and J
God says, "the heart is deceitful c
above all these things" What else /
Lord? Desperately wicked. Who t
can know it?" This being an af- s
Primitive question implying a mega a
tive answer meaning mo one can y
know the heart being so wicked. "
This is mans heart as God sees it. '