Saturday, August 17, 2019

Inside Out

I am in Michigan this week. Right in the heart of apple-growing country.

Here is a question for you: Did you ever wonder whether the worm hole in an apple was made from the inside or the outside of the apple? Apple growers tell us the worm bores the hole from the heart of the apple, and this is precisely the way the worm of sin begins in the human heart. Man is born a sinner by nature as a result of the first man, Adam’s, sin. When he commits sin, he becomes a sinner by practice–the condition of his heart is manifest.

“Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me” (Psalm 51:5).

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked” (Jeremiah 17:9).

“Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts” (Matthew 15:9).

Apple growers can eliminate the worm by applying the right insecticide at the right time, and the only way we can have our sins removed is by applying the blood of Jesus Christ to our hearts by faith in Him.

“The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:7).