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* FOLLOWING YOUR HEART 8~/26~/07 a.m.*
If serving God is the very best thing we can do for ourselves and those we love, then why is it that so few choose to serve Him?
If God loves everyone so much, why doesn’t every one love God?
If the things of God are so clearly seen, then why doesn’t everyone believe in Him?
If God blesses us for our obedience, then why doesn’t everyone obey Him?
If God punishes sin, then why do people continue in sin?
Why do some say that man is naturally good when no one has to be taught to lie, cheat, or steal?
Why do some live a life of perversion and say it’s natural?
Why will we steal and say it was ours to take?
Why do we murder and call it choice?
Why do we take advantage and call it opportunity?
Why will say we love our child and not discipline it?
Why will say we love God and hate someone?
Why will we say we love the church and gossip about those in it?
Why is a 30 minute message long but a 2 hour move isn’t?
Why is $20 cheap for groceries but a lot to give to the Lords church?
Why can we spend hours reading a book but find it hard to read Gods word for ½ an hour?
Why do we consider the rich man an asset and the poor man a liability?
Why will we not treat others the way we want to be treated?
Why is good called evil and evil good?
Why is the wisdom of the world accepted and the wisdom of God rejected?
Why do we fight depression and claim God as our hope?
*It’s simple really; the Bible tells us the reason for this type of behavior.
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*Jer.
17:9-10*9 “The heart /is/ deceitful above all /things,/
And 4desperately wicked; /(incurably sick)/
Who can know it?
10 I, the Lord, search the heart,
/I/ test the 5mind, /(Most secret parts)/
Even to give every man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings.
The ways of right and wrong, good and bad, hope and fear, and blessing and cursing are so clear (vv.
5-8), why would anyone choose the path of sin?
The cause for such action is in the *heart.*
It *is* so *deceitful* that Jeremiah wondered *who* could even *understand it.*
We are apt to think that we trust in God, and are entitled to the blessings promised to those who do so.
But this is something about which our own hearts deceive us as much as any thing.
We think that we trust in God when really we do not, as is shown by the examples given above.
Our words and actions, choices and decisions, hopes and fears rise or fall according to the circumstances we find ourselves in.
*And these ALL come from the heart.*
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*A) What is the heart?*
The /heart /is the very basis of character, including mind and will
The *heart* is the inner self, which thinks, feels, and acts.
The* heart* (cf.
Prov.
4:23) means man’s innermost being.
The *bent of man’s natural disposition*, apart from God’s redeeming grace,
is described as* deceitful* (lit., crooked) and* desperately wicked* (incurably sick).
*The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart, *
and the human heart is deceitful (/Jacob /in the Hebrew) and incurable.
*If we want to know what our hearts are like*, we must see what Gods word says about it.
It is often said, *“Follow your heart.”*
Man cannot trust his own heart
Only a person with a redeemed heart can live in proper fellowship with God (Job 11:13; 1 John 3:18–24).[1]
*/B) /**/How can we know it?/*
We often say, “*Well, if I know my own heart*,” /but we don’t know our own hearts./
God does.
He searches the heart and mind and knows exactly what it is.
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We cannot know our own hearts, not what they will do in an hour of temptation
Hezekiah did not, Peter did not, and the hearts of the Jewish leaders were turned away from the Lord and His truth.
We don’t what corruptness there is in them, nor in how many things they have turned aside;
Much less can we know the hearts of others, or have any dependence upon them.
DO NOT TRUST YOUR HEART OR THE HEART OF ANOTHER – ONLY GOD WORKING IN THE HEART AND MIND OF SELF AND OTHERS
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*/How can we know it?
/Read the Word and let the Spirit teach us.*
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*/C ) How is it deceitful above all things/*
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It is subtle and false; it is apt to /supplant/ (so the word properly signifies);
it is that from which Jacob had his name, a /supplanter./
Sin has corrupted human nature so that we cannot trust our motives or minds.
It calls evil good and good evil,
Puts false colors upon things, to see things differently form what they actually are
And it will cause us to bless things that we shouldn’t bless.
It will make men say in their hearts that there is no God,
or he does not see, or he will not require,
or they shall be blessed though they go on in sin;
It will cause us to think our own hearts are a great deal better than they really are.
It will promote the idea that man’s heart is naturally good.
This lie, planned and dispersed by Satan himself,
In these, and a thousand similar suggestions the heart is deceitful.
It cheats men into their own ruin; it makes us self-deceivers, self-destroyers.
This is how the heart is /desperately wicked;/ it is deadly, it is desperate.
The word rendered “desperately wicked” could be translated “incurably sick.”
Sin is like a disease of the *heart,* the inner being.
*Wicked.*
Corrupt.
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*Ps.
51:5 *Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.
/(from birth)/
*Gen.
8:21 *the imagination 1of man’s heart /is/ evil from his youth;
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*Job 15:16 *16 man, ../ is/ abominable and filthy, Who drinks iniquity like water!
*The heart of every man is incurably sick or wicked and can be redeemed to righteousness only by God through faith in Jesus Christ.*
*D) THE RESULTS OF FOLLOWING YOUR HEART*
To trust in one’s own heart is as foolish as to trust in our fellow man
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*Pr 28:26 *26 He who trusts in his own heart *is a fool,*
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*Ecc.
9:3 *Truly the hearts of the sons of men are *full of evil*; *madness /is/ in their hearts*
while they live, and after that /they go/ to the dead.
*Jer.
16:12* 12 for behold, each one 2follows the dictates of his own evil heart,
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