by Jeffrey W. Hamilton<\/p>\n\t\n
A. Prov. 6:16-19<\/p>\n B. This is the reason that the world was destroyed by a flood – Gen. 6:5-7. All\nman thought about was evil continually.\n C. It did not halt with the flood – Gen. 11:6. Mankind did not learn their\nlesson.\n
II. Sounds much like modern mankind.<\/p>\n
A. People can’t imagine having fun without getting drunk or doing drugs.<\/p>\n B. Good is called evil and evil is called good. We have talk show hosts\ncondemning those who state that homosexuality is wrong and we have a\nPresident trying to remove restrictions because "it is the right thing to do."\n
III. Man’s Thoughts<\/p>\n
A. Compared to God, man’s thoughts are worthless – Ps 94:11<\/p>\n
B. Paul talks of the Gentile’s worthless imagination – Rom. 1:21.<\/p>\n C. Of course man thinks he is something special, but fall into this trap – Col.\n2:18\n D. Within themselves, wicked men think they are alone in their plans, but God\nknows – Ezek. 8:12\n
E. They plot deep within themselves, thinking no one else knows. – Ps. 64:1-10.<\/p>\n
F. God knows man’s thoughts and their works – Isa. 66:18<\/p>\n G. God finds these thoughts disgusting – Pr. 15:26\/p>\nIV. Why should we be concerned with what I am thinking? No one else knows. They\nare not harming anyone.\n
A. Out of the heart comes evil thoughts and evil actions – Mt. 15:9<\/p>\n
B. As a man thinks, so is he – Pr. 23:7<\/p>\n
C. Those who think evil, cannot understand righteousness – Tit. 1:15-16.<\/p>\n
D. They speak evil of the things they do not understand – Jude 10, II Pet. 2:12.<\/p>\n
span> A. Eph. 4:17 – Don’t walk like the Gentiles do, in the vainity of their minds.<\/p>\n B. They have their own teachers telling them that everything is fine – Jer. 23:7<\/p>\n C. A carnal, or wordly, mind is at odds with God’s purpose – Rom. 8:7 <\/p>\n < D. However, God has reconciled his enemies to himself - Col. 1:21<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Jeffrey W. Hamilton A. Prov. 6:16-19 B. This is the reason that the world was destroyed by a flood – Gen. 6:5-7. All man thought about was evil continually. C. It did not halt with the flood – Gen. 11:6. Mankind did not learn their lesson. II. Sounds much like modern mankind. A. People can’t imagine having fun without…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[183,495,179],"class_list":["post-62359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon","tag-evil","tag-heart","tag-sin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7861,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/was-the-tree-of-life-different-from-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil\/","url_meta":{"origin":62359,"position":0},"title":"Was the tree of life different from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Please bear with me. I am just recently in the last year come back to studying the Bible, and there is so much I don't understand. I am what many refer to as 'backslider', but am attempting to rectify that. However, there is no one around me to talk\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2250,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/when-good-men-do-nothing\/","url_meta":{"origin":62359,"position":1},"title":"When Good Men Do Nothing","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. Hamilton I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Edmund Burke once said, \u201cAll that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the endless battle between good and evil, it is seldom the numbers that determine the outcome of each skirmish. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Many times, the side for the right\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Audio"","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11027,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-didnt-god-allow-adam-to-eat-of-the-tree-of-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":62359,"position":2},"title":"Why didn’t God allow Adam to eat of the Tree of Life?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 9, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Why did God not allow Adam to eat the fruit from the Tree of Life? Instead, He cast him away fearing that Adam will eat the fruit and live forever. Is this God a loving God or a jealous God? Answer: God is both loving and jealous. See \"God\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":56899,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/it-is-so-hard-to-escape-the-sin-in-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":62359,"position":3},"title":"It is so hard to escape the sin in the world","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 15, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hello there. I have just gotten back into church again and I have been studying the Bible. Almost everything I watch has cuss words in them. I want to buy a language blocker for all my streaming services. It will block out bad language and nudity. Will that still\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":44579,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/mans-sinful-nature\/","url_meta":{"origin":62359,"position":4},"title":"Man’s Sinful Nature","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. Hamilton I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ve been hearing a lot about man\u2019s sinful nature \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A large number of people in denominations take it for granted that mankind is born sinful. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In other words, people can\u2019t help but to sin because it is a part of our nature. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Philadelphia Confession of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Audio"","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":36720,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/in-the-midst-of-evil\/","url_meta":{"origin":62359,"position":5},"title":"In the Midst of Evil","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: I Peter 1:3-9 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Abraham was told that his descendants would be strangers and slaves in a land before being brought back out 400 years later - Genesis 15:13 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That nation, Egypt, was one of the more wicked places on earth, totally given over to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Audio"","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}