What is your heart like?

…an adapted excerpt of the article: Put on the new

Why they live that way 
Paul says in Ephesians 4:7-19, that people act out because of “the hardness and insensitivity of their heart”.

This is what characterizes the “unbelieving”:

futility of their minds
foolishness and emptiness of their souls
their [moral] understanding is darkened
their reasoning is clouded
[they are] alienated from the life of God
[they are] self-banished from the life of God
with no share in it (the life of God)
[willful] ignorance is [deep-seated] within them
[willful] spiritual blindness is [deep-seated] within them
the hardness and insensitivity of their heart.
spiritual apathy
callous and unfeeling
have given themselves over [as prey] to unbridled sensuality
eagerly craving the practice of every kind of impurity [that their desires may demand]

Individuals CHOOSE
What Paul is saying here is that:

Individuals CHOOSE
not to follow Jesus
because their heart is
hard and insensitive
to God (Ephesians 4: v18):

1. They live according to the futility of their mind
2. They live according to their empty, foolish soul
3. Their moral understanding is darkened
4. Their reasoning is clouded
5. They are alienated from the life of God
6. They are self-banished from the life of God
7. They are willfully ignorant (ignorance that is deep-seated in their inner soul)
   
8. They are spiritually blind (blindness that is deep-seated in their inner soul)
9. They are this way because their heart is hard and insensitive.

They therefore have no share in the life of God.  Unbelievers reject God “…because of the hardness and insensitivity of their heart”.  They are hard-hearted.

What will it be for you?

FOR MORE:

What is a hard, insensitive heart? Paul describes it here in Ephesians 4:7-19.
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Is this you?

What sort of person are you?

Opting Out

The faith of anything goes

What will it be for you?

Put on the new