Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Well done. Each spells out the absolute depravity of man.
Yes it does. But what I found interesting is that it is mortally sick, incurable.
Man can put on band aids, but in the end it is still sick and cannot be made whole until he comes to the Lord and receives a new heart.
Notice in this verse..
Jer 13:23
23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?
Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil.
NKJV
The sick heart cannot help but do what is wrong. You can take a pig and bathe it, dress it up, etc. But what is the first thing it will do? Go wallow in the mire. Why?, because that is it's nature.
Ezek 18:31
Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit.
NIV
Ezek 36:26-27
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
NKJV
When we are born again, we receive holy spirit, Christ in you, a new heart, a new spirit....
Rom 8:
5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
NKJV
I thank God for saving me from the depravity I was in. I think differently now. When I think back to the way I used to be, I don't recognize myself!