The HEART 1 Desperately Wicked and Deceitful 2

The HEART ♥ 1. “Desperately Wicked and Deceitful” 2. Circumcision of The Heart

The HEART ♥ “Desperately Wicked and Deceitful”

What Is The HEART? ? • The Bible speaks of The HEART as the Center, “It Is The Wellspring Of Life” (Proverbs 4: 23; Luke 6: 45) • Biblically the HEART may been seen as containing the totality of one’s Intellect, Emotions, and Human Will.

The HEART Is The Center… • The Center of The Intellect • The Center of The Emotions • The Center of The Human Will

It’s a HEART Thang!!! Jeremiah 17: 9 -10 (KJV) “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. ” Jeremiah 17: 9 -10 (NIV) “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? "I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve. ”

It’s a HEART Thang!!! • The HEART is the inner being of a person that includes ones desires, feelings and thoughts. • Above All It is Desperately EVIL AND CORRUPT!

Mark 7: 20 -23 Jeremiah 24: 7 He went on: “What comes out “I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be of a person is what defiles them. my people, and I will be their God, For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil for they will return to me with all thoughts come—sexual their heart” immorality, theft, Ezekiel 11: 19 -20 murder, adultery, greed, malice, “I will give them an undivided deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, heart and put a new spirit in them; arrogance and folly. All these I will remove from their heart evils come from inside and defile a person. ” of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God. ” IT’S A HEART THANG!!

The HEART Is The Center Of Intellect… • People know things in their HEART (Deuteronomy 8: 5) • Pray in their HEART (1 Samuel 1: 12 -13) • Meditate in their HEART ( Psalms 19: 14) • Hide God’s Word in their HEART (Psalms 119: 11) • Devises Plans in their HEART (Psalms 140: 2) • Keep Words Within Their HEART (Proverbs 4: 21) • Think in their HEART (Mark 2: 8) • Doubt in their HEART (Mark 11: 23) *All of these Actions of the • Believe in their HEART (Romans 10: 9) HEART are Primarily Issues involving the Mind

The HEART Is The Center Of The Emotions • The Bible Speaks about: • The Glad HEART (EX. 4: 14) • The Loving HEART (Duet. 6: 5) • The Fearful HEART (Joshua 5: 1) • The Courageous HEART (Psalms 27: 14) • The Repentant HEART (Psalms 51: 17) • The Anxious HEART (Proverbs 12: 25) • The Angry HEART (Proverbs 19: 3) • The Revived HEART (Isaiah 57: 15) *All Of These Actions of the • The Humble HEART (Matthew 11: 29) HEART Are Primarily • The Troubled HEART (John 14: 1) Emotional in Character

The HEART Is The Center Of The Human Will • The Hardened HEART that refuses to do what God Commands (Exodus 4: 21) • The HEART that is yielded to God (Joshua 24: 23) • The HEART That extends to do something (2 Chronicles 6: 7) • The HEART that is devoted to Seeking The Lord (1 Chronicles 22: 19) • The HEART that decides (2 Chronicles 6: 7) • The HEART that desires to receive from the Lord (Psalms 21: 1 -2) *All Of These • The HEART that is turned towards God’s Statues Activities takes place (Psalms 119: 36) • The HEART That wants to do something in the Human Will (Romans 10: 1)

The HEART ♥ “Circumcision Of The Heart”

What Is Circumcision Of The Heart? ? • The Idea Of “Circumcision Of The HEART” is found in Romans 2: 29. It Refers to having a Pure Heart Separated unto God

It’s a HEART Thang!!! Romans 2: 28 -29(NIV) Romans 2: 28 -29 (KJV) A person is not a Jew who is one For he is not a Jew, which is only outwardly, nor is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision merely outward circumcision, which is outward and physical. No, a person is a in the flesh: But he is a Jew, Jew who is one inwardly; and which is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by circumcision is that of the written code. Such a heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not person’s praise is not from other people, but from God. of men, but of God.

It’s a HEART Thang!!! • Holy Living becomes the outward sign that we are under the New Covenant.

Jeremiah 4: 4 states…. We Must be Open to the Conviction of The HOLY Circumcise yourselves to SPIRIT, Repent Of Our the Lord, circumcise your Sins and Break up the hearts, you people of Hardened Soil Of HEART! Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or my wrath will flare up and burn like fire because of the evil you have done burn with no one to quench it. IT’S A HEART THANG!!

Isaiah 29: 13 -16 The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught. Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish. "Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the Lord, who do their work in darkness and think, “Who sees us? Who will know? "You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, "You did not make me"? Can the pot say to the potter, "You know nothing”? The Evil in Our HEARTS must be removed as surely as the Foreskin was removed in Physical Circumcision IT’S A HEART THANG!!

It’s a HEART Thang!!! People Praise and Honor God with their lips while having no real love for God or His Righteous Precepts

Ezekiel 36: 26 -27 Ezekiel 11: 19 I will give you a new heart “I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in you; I a new spirit in them; I will remove from your will remove from them heart of stone and give you a their heart of stone and heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move give them a heart of you to follow my decrees and flesh. be careful to keep my laws. IT’S A HEART THANG!!

It’s a HEART Thang!!! Apart from the Indwelling of The HOLY SPIRIT, It is impossible for a person to have true life and to follow God’s Ways It is Essential that we remain open to the voice and guidance of the HOLY SPIRIT

It’s a HEART Thang!!! • Hebrews 3: 7 -15 “So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, where your ancestors tested and tried me, though forty years they saw what I did. That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways. 'So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest. ’ ” See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today, ” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion. ”