To follow your heart

WHO TOLD YOU THAT? – TO FOLLOW YOUR HEART

“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?”

Jeremiah 17:9

“This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live.”

Ecclesiastes 9:3

“Those who trust their own insight are foolish, but anyone who walks in wisdom is safe.”

Proverbs 28:26

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE HEART

• It can to us.
• It’s
• It can .
• It confuses our .

“Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.”

Proverbs 4:23

“The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

I Samuel 16:7

THE PROBLEM: Our hearts are .

You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote, ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.”

Matthew 15:7-8

“…I will take out your stony, stubborn heart….”

Ezekiel 36:26

“But the words you speak come from the heart—that’s what defiles you. For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander.  These are what defile you. Eating with unwashed hands will never defile you.”

Matthew 15:18-20

BIBLICAL TRUTH: Without God our hearts are and .

SOLUTION: We need a new .

“I will give them hearts that recognize me as the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me wholeheartedly.”

Jeremiah 24:7

“And I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good for them. I will put a desire in their hearts to worship me, and they will never leave me. I will find joy doing good for them and will faithfully and wholeheartedly replant them in this land.”

Jeremiah 32:40-41

“As they were eating, Jesus took some bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take this and eat it, for this is my body.” And he took a cup of wine and gave thanks to God for it. He gave it to them and said, “Each of you drink from it, for this is my blood, which confirms the covenant between God and his people. It is poured out as a sacrifice to forgive the sins of many. 

Matthew 26:26-28

“Then Jesus shouted out again, and he released his spirit.”

Matthew 27:50

BIBLICAL TRUTH: Don’t your heart; follow .

HOW DO WE FOLLOW JESUS

1. control.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.

Proverbs 3:5

“This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!”

II Corinthians 5:17

2. Make DAILY adjustments.

“If you love me, obey my commandments.”

John 14:15

3. Live a life of SERVICE to OTHERS.

“For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 20:28