Resident Evil

“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.” (Psalm 51:10-11)

In the 2002 movie Resident Evil, Milla Jovovich fights a powerful out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh eaters after a laboratory accident. Unlike the movie, our wicked hearts residing in us is the very source of resident evil for Mark 7:21 tells us “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts.”

Jeremiah 17:9 further says “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.” That is why God transforms the heart in salvation. Religion only dresses up the outward appearance with man-made rituals, opulent cathedrals, fancy vestments, traditions, icons, statues, images and scandals, but God creates a new heart filled with His Holy Spirit with new desires for Him.

Jesus told us in Matthew 23:28 that a person can appear righteous to others but still have a heart full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. This is why salvation must include a heart change where the heart must undergo a complete bypass operation of Ezekiel 11:19 from a stony heart resistant toward God to a heart of flesh totally in submission to God’s will and easily moved in His direction.

The heart is the seat of all evil thoughts, and thoughts lead to actions, actions to habits, and habits to character. In Genesis 6:5, the Bible tells us that in the days of Noah “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

Then in Matthew 24:37, the Bible also tells us that, as in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of Man. In these last days before the Second Coming of Jesus the Messiah, every intent of the thoughts of men’s hearts is evil continually, and the earth is already filled with great wickedness and violence. Psalm 10:4 describes the wicked person as one who “does not seek God; God is in none of his thoughts” and Isaiah 59:7 says his thoughts are “thoughts of iniquity.”

Do we know of anyone who fit in this category? Before Jesus saved our souls, we, too, were away from God, entertaining all kinds of resident evil in our hearts. Proverbs 4:23 instructs us to study God’s Word to keep our heart with all diligence, for out of it springs the issues of life. We need to watch what we see or hear on TV, movies, magazines, radio or in everyday conversation because every evil audio and video enters into the heart and brings defilement.

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