Man’s problem and God’s cure.
Jeremiah
17:9-10 The heart is deceitful above
all things, and desperately wicked:
who can know it? I the Lord search
the heart, I try the reins, even to
give every man according to his ways, and
according to the fruit of his doings.
Diagnosis,
sin. Inbred, ingrained sin in the heart, that is both deceitful and desperately
wicked. It is not just the actions, but the heart itself that is sinful.
A
people who dismiss the diagnosis will have no idea of a cure. Our society and
even many of our churches reject the diagnosis of the deceitful and wickedness
of man deep down in his heart – a diagnosis they cannot know by applying human
reasoning. Only God searches, tries, and knows man’s heart. We cannot muse and
meditate until we figure out the problem. Nevertheless, by revelation God has
diagnosed the problem. “All have sinned.” “There is none good.” “All our
righteousnesses are as filthy rags.” “There is none good, but one, that is,
God.”
By
revelation God has prescribed the answer, the cure.
Isaiah
53: 4-5 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did
esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we
are healed.
Acts
8:34-35 And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh
the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man? Then Philip opened his
mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,
but by me.
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