Genesis 6: [5] And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
The imaginations
of the thoughts of the heart. Your brain, your thinking process has two sides
to it, explains Richard Jordan.
It has a
thinking side; the thoughts. It thinks logically; it thinks about facts. It
comes to understanding. That part of your thinking is what’s designed by God to
run your life.
But you have
another side in your thinking—your imagination. That’s the creative side. God
gave Adam that. He said, “Go out and subdue the earth. Use your creative genius
to go out and find . . . ” And that’s what Lucifer was given—that’s what a son
does.
He doesn’t
just think. He’s been given creativity to think what God gives him and to enhance
it and to serve an entrepreneurial side. The fact side, the thought side, that’s
where proof and reality is. That’s the facts, the truth, the reality.
The
imagination, the creative side, the image-ization . . . In your mind, you hear
a fact and then you create a picture of it. That’s where we create pictures,
artists. That’s where poetry comes from. That’s where dreams come from.
That creative
side is the side of your thinking where lies dwell. Because it begins to make
up; it begins to dream. It begins to think the “possible” and the problem is .
. . Why would it be “only evil continually”? Jeremiah 17:9 says, [9] The
heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
The philosopher (Socrates) said, “Know thyself and to thyself be true.” Woo-hoo. Wow. What a character you
are. That’s why people don’t like the Bible. You know that? That’s why people
like religion.
You look at
Islam and you think, “Who in the world would be attracted to that kind of
barbarism?” Living in 7th and 8th century Persia and
culture. You know why that is? It’s called pride. They give you five things you
can do and you can feel good about doing.
You know what
the gospel says? You’re a sinner. You can’t do anything and all the things you
think you do, you fall short. And you’re telling me one says be humble and one
says be proud. Which side do you think you’re going to come down on if you’re
in your flesh? I’m trying to cut to the bone here. That’s why it’s that way.
The imagination
of their hearts is only evil continually. Why? Because you’re a sinner and that
evil abides in your heart, and you take it with you where you go. You pass it
down to your progeny.
You take that
evil and you connect it with that creativity—what are you going to create?
Evil. You’re going to IMAGINE. You’re going to dream up. You get a picture.
By the way,
the first part of the word imagination is image. You know what idols
are? They’re the creation of the imagination of the one worshipping them.
Genesis 6:6: [6]
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him
at his heart.
People get
upset about that verse and say, “Well, why did it make God made that He made
man. If He made man, didn’t He know what man’s going to do and if He’s going to
destroy man, why did He save man with Noah?”
I don’t think
that’s what that passage is talking about. He’s not saying “I’m sorry I created
man.” He’s talking about the structure man’s living in.
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Exodus 32: [1]
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the
people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us
gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us
up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
“Make us a god!” Go into your imagination, come up with ideas and make us somebody to lead us. And where did they want that god to take them? Back to Egypt! Read on down the text. They’re going to create a god out of their OWN making; out of their own imagination.
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