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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

The counter-intuitive truth that the depressed person needs to hear isn’t “you’re really a wonderful person,” but rather, “you’re more sinful and flawed than you ever dared believe.” When he bemoans that he’s “such a failure,” we should agree with him, at least on one level. We should all agree that we’re all failures to the point that the perfect Son of God had to die before we would be able to have fellowship with Him… In a nutshell, we have to intentionally consider Jesus, especially during those dark hours we’re tempted to think only of ourselves. And although every one of us needs a daily dose of Gospel-recapitulation, those of us who feels the blows of Giant Despair need it even more.
Elyse Fitzpatrick

St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.
Blaise Pascal

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    HEART, Character of the Unrenewed

    1. Hateful to God # Pr 6:16,18 11:20
    2. Full of evil # Ec 9:3
    3. Full of evil imaginations # Ge 6:5 8:21 Pr 6:18
    4. Full of vain thoughts # Jer 4:14
    5. Fully set to do evil # Ec 8:11
    6. Desperately wicked # Jer 17:9
    7. Far from God # Isa 29:13 Mt 15:8
    8. Not perfect with God # 1Ki 15:3 Ac 8:21 Pr 6:18
    9. Not prepared to seek God # 2Ch 12:14
    10. A treasury of evil # Mt 12:35 Mr 7:21
    11. Darkened # Ro 1:21
    12. Prone to error # Ps 95:10
    13. Prone to depart from God # De 29:18 Jer 17:5
    14. Impenitent # Ro 2:5
    15. Unbelieving # Heb 3:12
    16. Blind # Eph 4:18
    17. Uncircumcised # Le 26:41 Ac 7:51
    18. Of little worth # Pr 10:20
    19. Deceitful # Jer 17:9
    20. Deceived # Isa 44:20 Jas 1:26
    21. Divided # Ho 10:2
    22. Double # 1Ch 12:33 Ps 12:2
    23. Hard # Eze 3:7 Mr 10:5 Ro 2:5
    24. Haughty # Pr 18:12 Jer 48:29
    25. Influenced by the devil # Joh 13:2
    26. Carnal # Ro 8:7
    27. Covetous # Jer 22:17 2Pe 2:14
    28. Despiteful # Eze 25:15
    29. Ensnaring # Ec 7:26
    30. Foolish # Pr 12:23 22:15
    31. Froward # Ps 101:4 Pr 6:14 17:20
    32. Fretful against the Lord # Pr 19:3
    33. Idolatrous # Eze 14:3,4
    34. Mad # Ec 9:3
    35. Mischievous # Ps 28:3 140:2
    36. Proud # Ps 101:5 Jer 49:16
    37. Rebellious # Jer 5:23
    38. Perverse # Pr 12:8
    39. Stiff # Eze 2:4
    40. Stony # Eze 11:19 36:26
    41. Stout # Isa 10:12 46:12
    42. Elated by sensual indulgence # Ho 13:3
    43. Elated by prosperity # 2Ch 26:16 Da 5:20
    44. Studies destruction # Pr 24:2
    45. Often judicially stupefied # Isa 6:10 Ac 28:26,27
    46. Often judicially hardened # Ex 4:21 Jos 11:20

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