For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
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… Second, Matthew 15, 19. Jesus says, out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication. There's the word fornication. It's so clearly a reference to premarital sex because it's used alongside adultery that the RSV goes against its usual translation and calls it fornication instead of immorality. It has to be because it's not adultery. That's here in this word. Moikia pornia. Two different things. So pornia has a focus on premarital sexual promiscuity. Third illustration. John 8, 41, Jesus is in a heated conversation with the Jewish leaders. He pushes them and pushes them until they are supposed to see their own inconsistency in relating to the Old Testament. But being unwilling as they are to recognize their own inconsistencies, they resort to ad hominem arguments. You know what that is? as arguments that don't have any logical foundation. They're just emotional, but they usually work for unthinking people, which Jesus isn't. They say, we weren't born of fornication. What's that got to do with the price of cheese on the moon? …
… Okay, some of y'all starting to get it. Matthew chapter 15 verse 19. Look what Jesus said. Jesus said, out of the heart comes evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft. false witness, slander. That's why people be like, I didn't even know it was gonna happen. You already know that you felt it way before you willed it. Come on, y'all. Well, she just ended up on my couch, and I don't even know what happened. We just was... Your emotions were involved when they friended you on Facebook. And you didn't hit deny. You liked it. And you turned your intellect off. And you sent your character away. So that you could do what your feelings. it already happened in your I'm going to help you today okay look what Romans 10 10 says Paul saved Paul says that a person must believe in his heart to be saved this is where salvation happens in your heart and for with the heart a man believes unto righteousness and this is where the church gets it messed up they want people to change their actions. And God wants to change their, because my actions only come out of what's in my heart. And that's why you say, if you believe in me and you say that I'm the Lord, you put me in the captain's chair, I'll start speaking to your emotions and I'll start directing your thoughts and I'll start channeling your feelings to not be the thing that controls you. …
When the Apostle says that we "were by nature the children of wrath," he means that we were born so. David expressed what is true of us all when he said, "Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." Our first parent, Adam, sinned and fell as the representative of the whole human race. "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men." If any object to this principle of representation, that does not affect its truth of it—and I would also remind them that by this very principle of representation, a way was left open for our restoration! The angels did not sin representatively—they sinned personally and individually—and, therefore, there is no hope of their restoration, but they are "reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." But men sinned representatively, and this is a happy circumstance for us, "for as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous." As we fell through one representative, it was consistent with the principles upon which God was governing mankind that He should allow us to rise by another Representative! At first, we fell not by our own fault, so now, by Grace, we rise not by our own merit. Death by sin came to us through Adam when we were born, so did life come to us through Christ Jesus. Thus our first text sets before us this terrible fact—as true as it is terrible, and as terrible as it is true—that we were by nature under the wrath of God from the very first. The whole race of mankind was regarded by God as descended from a disgraced traitor! We were all born children of wrath. …