The Need to Address Alternative and New Religious Movements

 It is very important to understand that the prophet Jeremiah and Jesus gives a clear description of the sinfulness of the heart of people. (Jer. 17:9; Mk. 7:21-22)  What is so dreadful about people's sinful hearts is that it is deceitful above all thngs and desperately wicked. Also, when it comes to heart of people is that it is unknowable. God is the only One who can know the heart of people today. The intent and motive of the hearts of men. God knows all things especially when it comes to the hearts of people today. God is omniscient: that of All-Knowing. There is nothing that God does not know because He sees and know each of our hearts as His creation. Despite of the fact that people today will attempt to conceal who they are but in reality it is difficult for them to reveal who they really are. It is just a matter of time before they really reveal who they are. Man is a sinner by nature and because of his sinful nature springs forth without out of their heart demonstrates the

 Text: Ezek. 36:26; Luk. 8:15 " A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh." "But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by perserving produce a crop." I. The Need for a New Heart (Ezek. 36:26)   A. Its necessity (Psa. 51:10)      1. The cleansing of the heart by God. (v. 10)        a. Psa. 24:4: "Clean hands and a pure heart."        b. Matt. 5:8: "The pure in heart."        c. Ac. 15:9: "Purified their hearts by faith."     2. The renewal of the spirit (Jn. 3:6; Tit. 3:5)       a.  For the spirit to be renewed by God is through the washing of water by the Word. (v. 6)       b. The spirit is renewed by the regenerating power and work of the Holy Spirit. (Tit. 3:5)  B. The work of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 3:3; Tit. 3:5)     1. The improbability of the h

 Text: Jer. 17:9; Mk. 7:21-22; Ecc. 9:3 Preface Acknowledgement Introduction I. The Heart is Full of Wickedness (Ecc. 9:3)   A. Sin resides within people's heart (v. 3a)      1. Every evil though and deeds springs from within out of the sinfulnesss of people's heart. (Jer. 17:9)      2. The deceitfulness of people's heart is to deceive others. (2 Tim. 3:13)   B. The insanity of the sinfulness of people's heart (v. 3b)      1. Treacherous.      2. Murders.      3. Malice. II. The Nature of the Deceitfulness of the Heart (Jer. 17:9)     A. Eph. 4:14.    B. 2 Cor. 4:1-2; 3-4.    C. 2 Cor. 11:3. III. Sin Precedes from Within Out of the Heart (Mk. 7:21a)      A. The expression of the heart (v. 21)        1. That which springs  from the sinful heart of people (v. 21b)          a. Moral vice.            1) Evil thoughts.            2) Sexual immorality (2 Cor. 5:1ff)            3) Theft.            4) Murder.            5)Adultery.         b. Spiritual vice.           1) Greed