Transcript Sunday Service: It`s A HEART Thang

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
of a person is what defiles
me, that I am the Lord. They will
them. For it is from within, out
be my people, and I will be their
of a person’s heart, that evil
God, for they will return to me
thoughts come—sexual
with all 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
evils come from inside and
I will remove from them their heart
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)
• The HEART that is turned towards God’s Statues
(Psalms 119:36)
• The HEART That wants to do something
(Romans 10:1)
*All Of These
Activities takes
place in the Human
Will
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 (KJV)
For he is not a Jew, which is
one outwardly; neither is that
circumcision, which is outward
in the flesh: But he is a Jew,
which is one inwardly; and
circumcision is that of the
heart, in the spirit, and not in
the letter; whose praise is not
of men, but of God.
Romans 2:28-29(NIV)
A person is not a Jew who is one
only outwardly, nor is
circumcision merely outward
and physical. No, a person is a
Jew who is one inwardly; and
circumcision is circumcision of
the heart, by the Spirit, not by
the written code. Such a
person’s praise is not from other
people, but from 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 11:19
“I will give them an
undivided heart and
put a new spirit in
them; I will remove
from them their heart
of stone and give them
a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:26-27
I will give you a new heart
and put a new spirit in you; I
will remove from you your
heart of stone and give you a
heart of flesh. And I will put
my Spirit in you and move
you to follow my decrees and
be careful to keep my laws.
IT’S A HEART
THANG!!
It’s a HEART Thang!!!
Apart from the
It
is
Essential
that
Indwelling of The
we
remain
open
HOLY SPIRIT, It is
to the voice and
impossible for a
person to have true guidance of the
life and to follow
HOLY SPIRIT
God’s Ways
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 for 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.”