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Because of Adam's fall in the garden, every

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mother's son born into this world is born

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with a rune nature and bent towards sin.

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The heart is deceitful above all things and

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desperately wicked.

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Who can know it?

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So says the prophet Jeremiah.

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Because of his natural condition, man is at

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enmity with God and hates all things holy.

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He cannot lay hold of the Christ of

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the Gospels, for he has no desire for

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Him.

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A self-ruled man will die in his

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sins and be brought down to hell, where

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his soul will suffer eternal damnation.

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1 Corinthians 2.14 declares, But the natural

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man receiveth not the things of the Spirit

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of God, for they are foolishness unto him,

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nor can he know them, because they are

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spiritually discerned.

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What that means, friend, is unless God performs

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a miracle of divine grace in your heart

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by way of regeneration, you will die in

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your natural state, as Isaiah 57.20 describes

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all those tortured souls in perdition and hell.

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But the wicked are like the troubled sea,

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when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up

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mire and dirt.

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To better appreciate that verse, one must live

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by the sea, to witness times of storm

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and hurricanes.

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I live in the state of Florida, and

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often in hurricane season, I will go down

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by the seashore and look out at the

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turbulence taking place in the ocean.

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At times the water looks like a boiling

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pot, with the waves tumbling up with a

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violent force and then crashing down upon the

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rocks below.

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It is all unrest.

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Mire and dirt are brought up to the

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surface of the water by those storm-tossed

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waves.

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That is a vivid picture of a tortured

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soul in hell.

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Never a moment's rest, and like the troubled

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sea, it is constantly in turmoil.

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The title of my message today, friends, is

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Divine Grace in the Sinner's Heart, and my

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text can be found in the book of

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Ezekiel in chapter 11 and verse 19.

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Here now is the word of God, and

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may the Spirit of the Lord attend the

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reading of His holy word.

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And I will give them one heart, and

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I will put a new spirit within you,

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and I will take the stony heart out

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of their flesh, and will give them a

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heart of flesh.

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This speaks of the supernatural work of God's

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Spirit in the heart of the sinner, called

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regeneration, whereby divine light being imparted to the

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soul, the sinner can acquiesce to the demands

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of the gospel and close with Christ.

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By this divine light in the sinner's heart,

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imparted by the Spirit of God, the soul

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is finally brought to unite with the revealed

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Christ by faith, and to be reconciled with

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God by giving up of oneself to God,

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to love Him and live to Him forever.

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And like the good ground hearers in the

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parable of the sower and the seed, they

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heard the word and understood it.

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When God works divine grace in the sinner's

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heart, he is enabled to have repentance and

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faith.

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In the act of regeneration, we receive this

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divine light, which is a new spiritual sense

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of things.

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Our eyes are opened, and we are brought

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out of darkness into this marvelous light, to

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where we have a right view of ourselves,

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a right view of God, and a right

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view of Christ.

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To be saved means we receive a revealed

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Christ and are united to Him in a

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living faith, but God must turn on the

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divine light upon our soul if we are

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to receive salvation by free grace through Him.

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Jesus said, No man can come to me

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except the Father, which hath sent me draw

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him, and I will raise him up at

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the last day.

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If you get saved, friend, it's because God

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gave you saving faith.

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I know the majority of our Baptist churches

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don't believe that or teach that anymore, but

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the majority of our Baptist churches are in

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deep spiritual apostasy.

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The spiritual illumination of divine grace lays the

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foundation for repentance and faith.

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The way of salvation is spoken of by

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the apostle in Acts, a repentance toward God

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and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Repentance and faith always go hand in hand,

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as the gospel calls sinners to repent and

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to believe in Christ.

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Because of the false gospel that is prominently

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preached in the modern church, many are deluded

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into a false hope of heaven because they

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have no repentance and do not turn to

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God with all their hearts.

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This devil's gospel has deceived millions of baptized

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individuals into an empty religious profession.

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They have never been awakened to their lost

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condition, never come under Holy Spirit conviction.

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They are strangers to regeneration and strangers to

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repentance and faith, and therefore are strangers to

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Christ Jesus.

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He will say to them on that day,

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I never knew you, depart from me ye

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that work iniquity.