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Hazael stopped him and said, “Is your servant a dog that he
should do these things?” He couldn’t believe what was in his
own heart, and walked away. The man of God wept, because
God had shown him Hazael’s heart. He denied the possibility of
it. Yet the facts remain that he murdered the king of Syria,
became king himself, and did even worse atrocities than Elisha
prophesied.

Don’t think for a moment, “I’m a Christian now. I can’t get
involved in those things. I’m safe and protected in God.” No,
you’re not. Here is a clear principle. Not just for the unsaved.
Thousands of Christians are trying to keep the principles of God,
with their own will power. They live in denial, assuming that they
are beyond such thoughts and actions. Take your eyes off Jesus
for a while, and you will find yourself excluded from the life of
God, even though you are saved and going to heaven. They are
not living by the life (Spirit) of God. They are living by their own
life force, Adamic nature. When you are living by your own life,
there is no end to the possibilities of sin in your life!

I decided to read through the Bible, and every time I found a sin, I
would either confess it, or admit the possibility of it. I accepted
that if the situation were right, I would do that very thing. I tell you,
it got bad! I stopped at Leviticus. I wound up confessing
murders, immoralities, perversions and incest. It was horrible. I
reached the bottom when I had to confess to God, the possibility
of having sex with animals. I said, “Lord, is that possible? Could
anybody stoop that low?” The answer is yes. I could. And so
could you. We can’t begin to know the possibilities of our heart,
without God. This is called the “doctrine of depravity”.
Jerimiah 17:9,

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately
wicked: who can know it?” Only God.

This is what he’s talking about when he mentions the “Old man”.
This is the extreme old man, full of hell. Filthy, polluted and
perverted. Feeding upon his own lusts and perversions. If you