The Wicked Heart Set to do Evil

[Book of Jeremiah]

The scenes and transactions of earth must excite a wonderful interest in heaven. Angels desire to look into these things. O how the whole universe looks on with inquisitive wonder to see what Christ has done, and how the sinners for whom he has suffered and done all, requite his amazing love!

When they see you set your heart only the more fully to do evil, they stand back aghast at such unparalleled wickedness! What can be done for such sinners but leave them to the madness and doom of their choice?

God has no other alternative. If you will abuse Him, He must execute his law, and its fearful sentence of eternal death. Suppose it were a human government and a similar state of facts should occur; who does not see that government might as well abdicate at once as forbear to punish?

So of God. Although He has no pleasure in the sinner's death, and although He will never slay you because He delights in it, yet how can He do otherwise that execute his law if He would sustain it? And how can He excuse Himself for any failure in sustaining it?

Will you stand out against Him, and flatter yourself that He will fail of executing his awful sentence upon you? Oh, sinner, there is no possibility that you can pass the appointed time without execution.

Human laws may possibly fail of execution: God's laws can fail never! And who is it that says--"Their judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not?"

The Wicked Heart Set To Do Evil by Charles G. Finney

 

[PK1]

Wow!
What a fantasy world you live in.
Schizophrenia comes to mind -- your mind.
.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Wow!
What a fantasy world you live in.
Schizophrenia comes to mind -- your mind.
.

It is written:
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
2 Corinthians 6:17

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Now we conclude this message with Charles Finney's Remarks:

REMARKS.​

1. Let me ask professors of religion--Do you think you believe these truths? Let me suppose that here is a father and also a mother in this house, and you have a child whom you know and admit to be under sentence of death.

You don't know but this is the very day and hour set for his execution.

How much do you feel? Does the knowledge and belief of such facts disturb your repose? Now your theory is that the case of your children is infinitely worse than this.

A death eternal in hell you know must be far more awful than any public execution on earth. If your own son were under sentence for execution on earth, how would you feel? Professing to believe him under the far more awful sentence to hell, how do you in fact feel?

But let us spread out this case a little. Place before you that aged father and mother.

Their son went years ago to sea.

Of a long time they have not seen him nor even heard a word from him. How often have their troubled minds dwelt on his case!

They do not know how it fares with him, but they fear the worst. They had reason to know that his principles were none too well fixed when he left home, and they are afraid he has fallen into worse and still worse society until it may be that he has become a bold transgressor.

As they are talking over these things and searching from time to time all the newspapers they can find to get if they can some clew to their son's history, all at once the door bell rings; a messenger comes in and hands a letter; the old father takes it, breaks the seal--reads a word and suddenly falls back in his seat, the letter drops from his hand;--Oh he can't read it! The mother wonders and enquires; she rushes forward and seizes the fallen letter;--she reads a word and her heart breaks with agony.

What's the matter? Their son is sentenced to die, and he sends to see if his father and mother can come and see him before he dies.

In early morning they are off. The sympathizing neighbors gather round; all are sorrowful, for it is a sad thing and they feel it keenly. The parents hasten away to the prison, and learn the details of the painful case.

They see at a glance that there can be no hope of release but in a pardon. The governor lives near, they rush to his house--but sad for them--they find him stern and inexorable.

With palpitating hearts and a load on their aching bosoms, they plead and plead, but all seems to be in vain. He says, Your son has been so wicked and has committed such crimes he must be hung. The good of the nation demands it and I cannot allow my sympathies to overrule my sense of justice and my convictions of the public good.

But agonized parents must hold on. O what a conflict in their minds! How the case burns upon their hearts!

At last the mother breaks out. Sir, are you a father? Have you a son? Yes, one son. Where is he? Gone to California. How long since you heard from him? Suppose he too should fall! Suppose you were to feel such grief's as ours, and have to mourn over a fallen son!

The governor finds himself to be a father. All the latent sensibilities of the father's heart are roused within him. Calling to his private secretary, he says, make out a pardon for their son! O what a flood of emotions they pour out!

All this is very natural. No man deems this strange at all.

The Wicked Heart Set To Do Evil by Charles G. Finney

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

But right over against this, see the case of the sinner, condemned to an eternal hell. If your spiritual ears were opened, you would hear the chariot wheels rolling--the great Judge coming in his car of thunder;--you would see the sword of Death gleaming in the air and ready to smite down the hardened sinner.

But hear the professedly Christian father pray for his ungodly son.

He thinks he ought to pray for him once or twice a day, so he begins; but ah, he has almost forgot his subject. He hardly knows or thinks what he is praying about.

God says, Pray for your dying son! Lift up your cries for him while yet Mercy lingers and pardon can be found.

But alas! Where are the Christian parents that pray as for a sentenced and soon-to-be-executed son!

They say they believe the Bible, but do they? Do they act as if they believed the half of its awful truths about sentenced sinners ready to go down to an eternal hell?

Yet mark--as soon as they are spiritually awake, then how they feel! And how they act!

What ails that professor who has no spirit of prayer and no power with God?

He is an infidel! What, when God says he is sentenced to die and his angel of death may come in one hour and cut him down in his guilt and sin, and send his spirit quick to hell, and yet the father or the mother have no feeling in the case?

They are infidels; they do not believe what God has said.

The Wicked Heart Set To Do Evil by Charles G. Finney

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

2. Yet make another supposition. These afflicted parents have gone to the governor; they have poured out their griefs before him and have at last wrenched a pardon from his stern hands.

They rush from his house towards the prison, so delighted that they scarcely touch the ground; coming near they hear songs of merriment, and they say, How our son must be agonized with company and scenes so unsuited and so uncongenial!

They meet the sheriff. Who, they ask, is that who can sing so merrily in a prison? It is your own son. He has no idea of being executed; he swears he will burn down the governor's house; indeed he manifests a most determined spirit, as if his heart were fully set on evil.

Ah, say they; that is distressing;--but we can subdue his wicked and proud heart. We will show him the pardon and tell him how the governor feels. We are sure this will subdue him. He cannot withstand such kindness and compassion.

They come to the door; they gain admittance and show him the pardon. They tell him how much it has cost them and how tenderly the governor feels in the case.

He seizes it, tears it to pieces and tramples it under his feet! O, say they, he must be deranged!

But suppose it is only depravity of the heart, and they come to see it and know that such must be the case. Alas, they cry, this is worst of all! What! not willing to be pardoned--not willing to be saved! This is worse than all the rest. Well, we must go to our desolate home. We have done with our son! We got a pardon for him with our tears, but he will not have it. There is nothing more that we can do.

They turn sadly away, not caring even to bid him farewell. They go home doubly saddened--that he should both deserve to die for his original crimes, and also for his yet greater crime of refusing the offered pardon.

The day of execution comes; the sheriff is on hand to do his duty; from the prison he takes his culprit to the place of execution; the multitude throng around and follow sadly along;--suddenly a messenger rushes up to say to the criminal--You have torn in pieces one pardon--but here is yet one more; will you have this?

With proud disdain he spurns even this last offer of pardon!

And now where are the sympathies of all the land? Do they say, How cruel to hang a young man, and for only such a crime? Ah, no; no such thing at all. They see the need of law and justice; they know that law so outraged must be allowed to vindicate itself in the culprit's execution.

And now the sheriff proclaims--"Just fifteen minutes to live;"--and even these minutes he spends in abusing the governor, and insulting the majesty of law.

The dreadful hour arrives, and its last moment--the drop falls; he trembles a minute under the grasp of Death, and all is still forever!

He is gone and Law has been sustained in the fearful execution of its sentence. And all the people feel that this is righteous. They cannot possibly think otherwise.

Even those aged parents have not a word of complaint to utter. They approve the governor's course; they endorse the sentence. They say, We did think he would accept the pardon! but since he would not, let him be accursed! We love good government, we love the blessings of law and order in society more than we love iniquity and crime. He was indeed our son, but he was also the son of the devil!

The Wicked Heart Set To Do Evil by Charles G. Finney

 

[PK1]

Wow!
What a fantasy world you live in.
Schizophrenia comes to mind -- your mind.

It is written:
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
2 Corinthians 6:17

It is written ... here & now ... under nature's reality that you can experience yourself with your own senses & not fantasize ancient stories ...

Get out of your cave and smell the roses/etc of Nature and adapt accordingly ... to "save" your mental health.
.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

But let us attend the execution of some of these sinners from our own congregation. You are sent for to come out for execution.

We see the messenger; we hear the sentence read,--we see that your fatal hour has come. Shall we turn and curse God?

No, NO! We shall do no such thing.

When your drop falls, and you gasp, gasp, and die--and your guilty, terror-stricken soul goes wailing down the sides of the pit, shall we go away to complain of God and of his justice?

No! Why not?

Because you might have had mercy, but you would not. Because God waited on you long, but you only became in heart more fully set to do evil. The universe look on and see the facts in the case; and with one voice that rings through the vast arch of heaven, they cry--"Just and righteous are thou in all thy ways, thou most Holy Lord God!"

Who says, this is cruel? What! Shall the universe take up arms against Jehovah? No.

When the universe gather together around the great white throne, and the dread sentence goes forth--"Depart, accursed;" and away they move in dense and vast masses as if old ocean had begun to flow off--down, down, they sink to the depths of their dark home; but the saints with firm step yet solemn heart proclaim--God's law is vindicated; the insulted majesty of both Law and Mercy is now upheld in honor, and all is right!

The Wicked Heart Set To Do Evil by Charles G. Finney

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Heaven is solemn, but joyful; saints are solemn, yet they cannot but rejoice in their own glorious Father. See the crowds and masses as they move up to heaven. They look back over the plains of Sodom and see the smoke of her burning ascend up like the smoke of a great furnace. But they pronounce it just, and have not one word of complaint to utter.

To the yet living sinner, I have it to say to day that the hour of your execution has not yet arrived. Once more the bleeding hand offers Mercy's cup to your lips. Think a moment;--Your Savior now offers you mercy. Come, O come now and accept it.

What will you say? I'll go on still in my sins? Then all we can say is that the bowels of divine love are deeply moved for you--that God has done all to save you that he wisely can do; God's people have felt a deep and agonizing interest in you and are ready now to cry, How can we give them up?

But what more can we do--what more can even God do? With bleeding heart and quivering lip has Mercy followed you. Jesus himself said--"How often would I have gathered you--O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! How often I would have saved you, but ye would not." Shall Jesus behold and weep over you, and say, "O that thou hadst known, even thou in this thy day--but now it is hidden from thine eyes."

What, O dying sinner, will you say? Shall not your response be--"It is enough--I have dashed away salvation's cup long and wickedly enough--you need not say another word.

O that bleeding hand! those weeping eyes! Is it possible that I have withstood a Savior's love so long? I am ready to beg for mercy now; and I rejoice to hear that our God has a father's heart."

He knows you have sinned greatly and grievously, but O, He says--my compassions have been bleeding and gushing forth towards you these many days. Will you close in at once with terms of mercy and come to Jesus? What do you say?

The Wicked Heart Set To Do Evil by Charles G. Finney

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Suppose an angel comes down, in robes so pure and so white; unrolls his papers,and produces a pardon in your name, sealed with Jesus' own blood. He opens the sacred book and reads the very passage which reveals the love of God, and asks you if you will believe and embrace it?

What will you do?

And what shall I say to my Lord and Master? When I come to report the matter, must I bear my testimony that you would not hear? When Christ comes so near to you, and would fain draw you close to his warm heart, what will you do?

Will you still repeat the fatal choice, to spurn his love and dare his injured justice?

The Wicked Heart Set To Do Evil by Charles G. Finney

 

[hobelim]

It is written ... here & now ... under nature's reality that you can experience yourself with your own senses & not fantasize ancient stories ...

Get out of your cave and smell the roses/etc of Nature and adapt accordingly ... to "save" your mental health.
.

Once a person ignores established facts about reality, rejects rational thinking, willfully descends into fantasy land and consequently loses their mind, with what can they get it back?

Without the capacity for objective critical thinking and without any knowledge of or ability to discern the truth, you, for refusing to live life without a functioning brain, will always seem like the crazy one, even evil, to people like this.

 

[PK1]

It is written ... here & now ... under nature's reality that you can experience yourself with your own senses & not fantasize ancient stories ...

Get out of your cave and smell the roses/etc of Nature and adapt accordingly ... to "save" your mental health.

Once a person ignores established facts about reality, rejects rational thinking, willfully descends into fantasy land and consequently loses their mind, with what can they get it back?

Not easy, like a person hooked on smoking tar/nicotine & related patterned behaviors.
It may take an extreme traumatic experience (like a heart attack) for this addicted person to "see the light" of their mentally destructive lifestyle and get motivated toward a healthier existence.

Unfortunately, the stats are against the OP if they're beyond their transition to adulthood. We can only comfort them ... or ignore them if they are not destructive to others.
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[hobelim]

It is written ... here & now ... under nature's reality that you can experience yourself with your own senses & not fantasize ancient stories ...

Get out of your cave and smell the roses/etc of Nature and adapt accordingly ... to "save" your mental health.

Once a person ignores established facts about reality, rejects rational thinking, willfully descends into fantasy land and consequently loses their mind, with what can they get it back?

Not easy, like a person hooked on smoking tar/nicotine & related patterned behaviors.
It may take an extreme traumatic experience (like a heart attack) for this addicted person to "see the light" of their mentally destructive lifestyle and get motivated toward a healthier existence.

Unfortunately, the stats are against the OP if they're beyond their transition to adulthood. We can only comfort them ... or ignore them if they are not destructive to others.
.

They must have never understood the hard learned lessons of the past taught in the gospel of Pinocchio, like when a person stays too long on Pleasure Island those donkey ears are there to stay.

That's also why it was considered a miracle that Lazarus was raised from the dead, and why it was a miracle that any lunatic was restored to a right mind, sanity, by the teaching of Jesus.



When the vast majority of people have gone crazy, aspiring to be sane is an extremely difficult and dangerous path to walk.



That is what Jesus meant when he said, "straight narrow and difficult is the road that leads to eternal life and few are they who find it."

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Shakespeare warned that those who protest too much are not to be trusted. You've given yourselves away by your many protests to the Gospel being preached.

What transpires when readers hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

It is written:
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Romans 10:17

It is written:
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Isaiah 55:11

What does this mean? It means that wherever the Gospel of Jesus Christ is preached, wherever the Word of God is spoken and those seeds of faith are planted - it will not return back void unto God but it will perform the work it was sent to do. What is that work? To save the souls of men who are presently condemned. To save the souls of any sinner who would call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved. This is why the Gospel of Jesus Christ is called, "The Good News."

The most vile sinner can be forgiven. Government spies, Jesuits, Communists, atheists, Satanists, Witches, Warlocks, Wizards, Witch Doctors, Hindus, Muslims, Paedophiles, Marxists (Socialists), Buddhists, Catholics, Pharisees, Saducees, unbelieving Jews, Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, Agnostics........ANYONE.

It is written:
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Romans 10:13

And what must the laborer do? Jesus said:

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
John 9:4

And so the people of God must pray to the Lord of the harvest to send more laborers as He told us to:

It is written:
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
Matthew 9: 37,38

And what can be said for those who try to hinder the laborers?

It is written:
He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
Matthew 12:30

 

[hobelim]

Shakespeare warned that those who protest too much are not to be trusted. You've given yourselves away by your many protests to the Gospel being preached.

Whatever it is that you think you are preaching by posting verses that are above your comprehension is not the gospel of Jesus Christ who would never have worshiped another human being as you do and teach others to do in a blatant violation of the laws of God under penalty of death.

You are not saving souls, or even trying to restore anyone to good mental health. You are doing the exact opposite. You don't even know what good mental health is.

In the eyes of God you are just a serial murderer, perjuring yourself in His name as an open expression of your true devotion, leading people to destruction.

Your confusion and dedication to a self-negating descent into oblivion, evidence that you have your reward already.


"He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he who lifts the sword to kill, is bound by the sword to be killed."

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

You've proven the point that those who protest too much cannot be trusted.
I should add that none protest so much nor so craftily as those who are children of the devil.

It is written:
Acts 13 King James Version (KJV)
13 Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

3 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

4 So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.

5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.

6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:

7 Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.

8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.

9 Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him.

10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

12 Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.

13 Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.

14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.

17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.

18 And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

20 And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.

22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

23 Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

24 When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

25 And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.

26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

30 But God raised him from the dead:

31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,

33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.

35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;

41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.

43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.

50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.

51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.

52 And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.

King James Version (KJV)
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and again it is written:

2 Timothy 3 King James Version (KJV)
3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.

10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,

11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

King James Version (KJV)
Public Domain

 

[hobelim]

You've proven the point that those who protest too much cannot be trusted.
I should add that none protest so much nor so craftily as those who are children of the devil.

It is written:
Acts 13 King James Version (KJV)
13 Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

3 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

4 So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.

5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.

6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:

7 Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.

8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.

9 Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him.

10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

12 Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.

13 Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.

14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.

17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.

18 And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

20 And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.

22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

23 Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

24 When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

25 And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.

26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

30 But God raised him from the dead:

31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,

33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.

35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;

41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.

43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.

50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.

51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.

52 And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.

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and again it is written:

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3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.

10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,

11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

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That seems like an awful lot of protesting from the very person whose says that those who protest too much cannot be trusted.

Hmmmm. Apparently the greatest enemy that you will ever face in your entire life is your own tongue.



Just goes to show that there is no darkness greater than the darkness in the mind of the person whose only light in life is a lie. ( Hobelim 4:20 )

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Hobelim, your artist (art in your avatar) had a truly disturbed mind (demon possessed) like yours.

Zdzisław Beksiński was a satanist who so far as we know never repented and is today in hell. Are you sure you want to join him? Furthermore, God warns the wicked twice in His Word, Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm. You are provoking the Lord to anger when you slander His Name - God made it clear in his word that what you do to his servants you do to Him and you are attempting to trouble one of his servants. You are trying to hinder the Gospel of Jesus Christ being preached.

It is written:
Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that
trouble you;
1 Thessalonians 1:6

Do you understand fully what you are doing? Have I explained to you clearly?

Read Psalm 149:9 (KJV).

You are provoking the LORD to anger.

 

[Dajjal]

Zdzisław Beksiński was a satanist who so far as we know never repented and is today in hell

I though we become dust until judgement day, when we are resurrected then judged to heaven or hell.
So how can this dude already be in hell?

 

[PK1]

"so far as we know ... is today in hell"
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We know? Please don't lie!
We don't know anything about "hell".
It's likely a made up fantasy, like Santa Claus and other myths (aka Folklore).

LET'S BE HONEST.
Isn't lying a "sin"?

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