“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” (Jeremiah 17:9).
“For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. All these vile things come from within; they are what defile you” (Mark 7:21-23).
One of the hardest things to come to grips with is how evil we truly are. I often say to young Christians and try to remind myself that we really do not know how sinful we are until we get saved, and then the Holy Spirit begins to shine His light into the crevices of our souls and into the secrets in our lives. Truthfully, it can be quite defeating having to come to grips with how evil I am and how unlike Christ I can be. We now live in a world that has abandoned any pretense of being good. Evil is now promoted and even celebrated. Evil is loved and being pushed as the norm.
Jesus warned us that people love darkness because their deeds are evil, but now we are seeing that people have brought their deeds well out into the light. It has become evil to call out evil. It has become hated to call out perverseness and sickening sins.
Mankind has always been sinful. I am reading in the book of 1 Kings right now, and one of the kings had to get rid of the sodomites when he came to power. It seems that sexual perversion and effeminate men go hand in hand with evil. It is almost the most important fruit of evil. We are beginning to learn, sadly, that behind the scenes, evil has been rampant in our entertainment industries, the government, and maybe even in some ‘churches.’
I recall being warned by my Dad, that old fuddy-duddy, about the free sexual tendencies of the rock and roll world that I was immersed in as a kid. I listened to KISS, AC/DC, and a host of other rock and roll bands that promoted free sex and drug use.
Now, when adults engage in sexuality between men and women, that is one thing. But when there is the abuse of children, we can begin to see what happened to people like Michael Jackson and many others that had the innocence of their childhood stolen by grown men and some women as they sexually and emotionally abused these kids.
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“For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. All these vile things come from within; they are what defile you” (Mark 7:21-23).
One of the hardest things to come to grips with is how evil we truly are. I often say to young Christians and try to remind myself that we really do not know how sinful we are until we get saved, and then the Holy Spirit begins to shine His light into the crevices of our souls and into the secrets in our lives. Truthfully, it can be quite defeating having to come to grips with how evil I am and how unlike Christ I can be. We now live in a world that has abandoned any pretense of being good. Evil is now promoted and even celebrated. Evil is loved and being pushed as the norm.
Jesus warned us that people love darkness because their deeds are evil, but now we are seeing that people have brought their deeds well out into the light. It has become evil to call out evil. It has become hated to call out perverseness and sickening sins.
Mankind has always been sinful. I am reading in the book of 1 Kings right now, and one of the kings had to get rid of the sodomites when he came to power. It seems that sexual perversion and effeminate men go hand in hand with evil. It is almost the most important fruit of evil. We are beginning to learn, sadly, that behind the scenes, evil has been rampant in our entertainment industries, the government, and maybe even in some ‘churches.’
I recall being warned by my Dad, that old fuddy-duddy, about the free sexual tendencies of the rock and roll world that I was immersed in as a kid. I listened to KISS, AC/DC, and a host of other rock and roll bands that promoted free sex and drug use.
Now, when adults engage in sexuality between men and women, that is one thing. But when there is the abuse of children, we can begin to see what happened to people like Michael Jackson and many others that had the innocence of their childhood stolen by grown men and some women as they sexually and emotionally abused these kids.
The Evil that Men (mankind) Do! :: By Sean Gooding
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” (Jeremiah 17:9). “For from within, out of a
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so true.
