Prophet', Column
“The Deceived Heart”
By J M. Little
• Special TO The Post
The greatest thing in all
tbis universe is just to know
Christ as your Lord and
your Saviour. Do you know
Him as your Lord and your
Saviour? I do. And I know
that but for the distinguish
ing grace of God I’d be in
the other fellow’s place,
with a deceived heart and
knowing nor caring nothing
about the Lord Jesus
Christ. "V
Every soul out of Christ
has a deceived heart.
Every soul out of Christ is a
child of the Devil, that’s
vfhy you have a deceived
heart. This message grew
out of an incident that took
place here at the office just
the other day. A man with a
deceived heart stood here
iii the office and boasted of
Who he is. I never an
swered his boasting. It is
sad that he knows not
whom he is. Every captive
of Satan is deceived on
t^iree points; why you are
by nature, what you are by
nature, and the judgment
jflouare Under. Every child
<rf the Devil is proud just
like the Devil. It was the
sin of pride that got Satan
Kicked out of Heaven and
every child of his is puffed
up in pride. That’s why you
are not saved.
I “THE PRIDE OF
THINE HEART HATH DE
CEIVED THEE, thou that
dwellest in the clefts of the
rpck, whose habitation is
high; that saith in his
heart, Who shall bring me
dpwn to the ground?
Though thou exalt thyself
as the eagle, and though
thou set thy next among the
gars, thence will I bring
tjjee down, saith the
faORD,” (Obadiah 1:3-4).
That is the deceived heart
cff every soul out of Christ.
One day on your death bed
jwu’ll see just what a fool
you were for exalting your
®f in pride, and the Devil
tgill say to you; “Now, I’m
going to give you your re
ward for all your works,
©re’s Hell for you!”
friend, I know what it
means to have a deceived
iSart, every born-again
BHiever does. One day the
bussed Holy Spirit opened ,
my heart and revealed my
Mart to me through the
^$rd of God. What blessed
ness! I told the folks at Mt.
Pilgrim that I thank the
Lord He didn’t let me die
hack there when I was
teaching the Bible class. If
the Lord had cut me off
then, I’d be kicking and
♦reaming in Hell right
now. When I was teaching
tine Bible class I was a very
proud soul and deceived
jpst like this man who
a me to me here in the post
Ice. Some of you are so
fxoud you can't even lis
ten to one word someone
lps to say to you. Some of
our preachers are like that.
rlo proud man is saved!
•
;Two men went up into the
ttmple to pray, one a Pha
risee and the other a Pub
lican. Now how did the
Pharisee pray? “...God, I
thank Thee, that I am not
as other men are, extor
a
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Second in series
tioners, unjust, adulterers,
or even as this Publican. I
fast twice in the week, I
give tithes of all that I
possess.” There we see a
proud heart, a deceived
heart, boasting of what he
is. Note all the I’s in his
prayer. Everything was I.
He felt himself above the r
old Publican standing afar.
Read the whole story there
in Luke 18 and see that the
Publican got saved but not
the proud Pharisee. This
proud man looked down on
the old sinner weeping over
therein the comer. Friend,
you’d give ten million
worlds to be in the place of
that old Publican. Before
you can be savfed, you must
be stripped of all your
pride. God has to hide pride
from you before He can
save you. By nature you
are proud, that’s the nature
of the Devil. Before you are
saved, if you ever are to be
saved, you are going to be
so broken that the old
yellow dog in the backyard
could lead you around.
That’s so! The spirit of
pride is the spirit of the
Antichrist.
In the fourth chapter of
Daniel we have the story of
a very proud man who was
king over Babylon. At that
time Babylon stood as the
world power. Nebuchad
nezzar was so proud. But
for seven years he was
turned out with the beasts
of the pasture. It took all
that to break his hellish
pride. But God had mercy
on that man. Listen to his
testimony after God saved
, him; “And at the end of the
days I, Nebuchadnezzar,
lifted up mine eyes unto
heaven, and mine under
standing returned unto me,
and I blessed the most
High, and I praised and
honoured Him that Hveth
forever, whose dominion is
an everlasting dominion,
and His kingdom is from
generation to generation:
And all the inhabitants of
the earth are reputed as
nothing: and He doeth ac
cording to His krill in the
army of heaven, and
among the inhabitants of
the earth: and none can
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