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Let’s look at Mark Seven verse twenty one to twenty three.
from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts. adulteries, fornications, murders,
thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, 177
pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man. The hearts
of people are filled with evil thoughts from the day they are conceived.
Let us just imagine that a person’s heart is made of glass and filled to the brim with
some filthy liquid, namely, our sins. What would happen if this person moved back and
forth?
The filthy liquid (sin) would of course spill everywhere. As the person moves about, sin
would repeatedly spill all over the place.
We, who are but masses of sin, live out our lives just like that. We spill sin wherever
we go. We will sin throughout our lives because we are masses of sin.
The problem is that we do not realize that we are masses of sin, or in other words, the
seeds of sin. We are masses of sin and have sin in our hearts from the day of our births.
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The masses of sin are ready to overflow. However, people do not believe they are inherently
sinful. They think that others lead them into sin so they aren’t the ones who are bad.
While committing sins, people think that the only requirement needed to wash themselves
clean again is for sin to be expunged. They keep wiping themselves up every time they
sin.
They convince themselves that it is not their own faults. Just because we clean up after
ourselves, does it mean that it’s okay to keep on spilling?
We would have to continually wipe up over and over again. When a glass is full of sin,
it will keep on spilling. There is no use in wiping up the outside. 155
No matter how often we wipe the outside with our virtuous deeds, it is useless, as long
as the glass full of sin.
We are born with so much sin that our hearts will never become empty, no matter how much
sin we spill along the way. Therefore, we commit sins throughout our lives.
When people do not realize that they are indeed a mass of sin, they go on hiding their sinful
nature. Sin is in all people’s hearts and it does not go away by wiping the surface.
When we spill a little sin here, we wipe it up with cloth and when we spill again, we
wipe it up with a mop, a towel and then a rug.
We keep hoping that if we just keep wiping up the mess over and over again, it will be
clean, but it simply spills again and again. How long do you think this will go on?
It goes on until the day a person dies. People act sinfully until their dying days. This
is why we have to believe in Jesus to be redeemed. But first we need to know ourselves.
Who do you think can gratefully receive Jesus’ love? Only people who know themselves as Sinners
admit that they have committed many wrongs so they can gratefully receive salvation.
Let us say there are two men who can be compared to two glasses full of filthy liquid. Both
glasses are full of sin. One looks at himself and says, Oh, I am such a sinful person.
Then, he gives up, goes to find someone who can help him. The other one thinks he is not
really evil. He cannot see the mass of sin within himself thinking he is not so sinful.
All his life, he keeps on wiping up the spills. He wipes up one side, and then the other side...quickly
moving over to the other side.
There are many who carefully live their lives, trying to have as little sin as possible to
avoid spilling it over. But they still have sin in their hearts, so what good can it do?
Being careful will not lead them any closer to Heaven. Being careful puts them on the
road to hell instead. Dear friends, being careful only leads to hell.
We should take this lesson to heart. When people are careful, their sins may not spill
over as much, but they are still sinners. What is in the heart of humanity?
Does a human heart have Sin? Yes! We cannot help but admit to the fact that we are masses
of sin.
Yes! especially when we see ourselves act sinfully and wickedly, without being taught
to do so. It may not be as evident when we are young.