The Human Heart

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The Human Heart

• Who can know it?
• Jeremiah 179

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The Heart

• The center or seat of life (Prov.
  2315-16)
• Physical life
• Spiritual life
• Moral life

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Mark 1230-31

• 30 And you shall love the LORD your God with
  all your heart, with all your soul, with all your
  mind, and with all your strength. This is the
  first commandment.
• 31 And the second, like it, is this You shall
  love your neighbor as yourself. There is no
  other commandment greater than these.

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The Heart

• The center or seat of life
• Physical life
• Spiritual life
• Moral life
• Good and evil come from the heart, Lk. 645 Mk.
  721-23

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• Intellect
• Thinks, Matt. 94
• Reasons, Mark 26-8
• Understands, Matt. 1315
• Believes, Rom. 109-10

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• Emotion
• Anguish, 2 Cor. 24
• Rejoice, Jno. 1622
• Despair, Eccl. 220
• Distress, Psa. 3810

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• Conscience
• Evil cleansed, Heb. 1022
• Bears witness, Rom. 215

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• Will
• Thinks, Prov. 237
• Intentions, Heb. 412
• Decisions, 1 Cor. 737
• Purposes, Acts 1123
• Convinced, Acts 237
• Obey, Rom. 617

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Make melody in your heartEph. 519

• OLD COVENANT
• Man-made instruments
• Made by David, 1 Chrn. 235
• Commandment of God by prophets, 2 Chrn. 2925

• NEW COVENANT
• God-made instrument, Eph. 519
• With will purpose, Col. 316
• With joy, Jas. 513

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Gods law in the heartDeut. 65-6

• OLD COVENANT
• Engraved on stones, 2 Cor. 37
• Tablets, Exo. 2412
• Written by God, Exo. 341
• 10 Commandments, Deut. 102, 4

• NEW COVENANT
• Written on hearts, Heb. 810 1016
• Implanted word, Jas. 121-22
• Hear obey
• Good honest, Luke 815

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Guard your heart

• Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of
  it spring the issues of life. (Prov. 423)

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Purify your heart

• 7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and
  he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and
  He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you
  sinners and purify your hearts, you
  double-minded. (James 47-8)
• Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall
  see God. (Matt. 58)