What is the Bible?(Part 4)What Does Jesus Say About Mans Heart-Investigating"Can we trust the Bible?

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This weeks study:
Topic: How do we know the Bible is Real? Is the Bible true?
Series in the Topic: What is the Bible? (Part 4) Major theme: Condition of the Heart

Welcome to This Week in the Word!

Called to share the work God is using to grow me. How I am preparing for his calling on my life, and being a witness to his glory. I am not a graduate of seminary, a theologian, or godly scholar. I am just a born again BIBLE believing disciple of Jesus Christ.

Mission: To encourage people to seek God through reading his word.

Topic of the heart:
Importance: the word heart appears 830 times in the Bible.
What does “heart” mean?
1. Primary organ of the blood’s motion- 2 Kings 9:24
2. The inner part of any thing; the middle part or interior; - Matthew 12:40
3. The chief part; vital part; vigorous or efficacious part. The heart of the matter. - Mark 12:33
4. The seat of the affections and passions; Deceitful- Jeremiah 17:9 , Evil- Proverbs 12:20, Unbelieving- Hebrews 3:12, Heavy- Proverbs 25:20, Sorrow- John 16:6, Righteous- Proverbs 15:28, Proud- Proverbs 16:5, Favor- 2 Samuel 14:1
5. The seat of the understanding: 1 Kings 3:9, Proverbs 3:5
6. The seat of will; determined purposes, intentions or designs. Disposition of mind. Daniel 1:8, Ecclesiastes 8:11
7. Secret thoughts; recesses of the mind.Judges 16:17, 2 Samuel 6:16
8. Secret meaning; real intention.- 1 Corinthians 14:25
9. Conscience, (or sense of good or ill): - 2 Samuel 24:10
10. Strength; power of producing; vigor; fertility.- Psalms 38:10, Psalms 73:26
To simplify one could say the heart is the innermost core part of a person where all decisions, beliefs, motives and thoughts are kept secret and private from all other people. The heart is what makes you, you.

The key text for the study of this theme is: Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

What does the Bible say about Man’s heart:
The condition of Man’s heart: Jeremiah 17:9 Genesis 6:5
The heart is where sin is committed: Matthew 5:28 Matthew 9:4 Psalms 14:1
How the heart is revealed: Matthew 6:21, Luke 12:34 Matthew 12:34 Luke 6:45
Jesus’s teaching about Man’s heart: (also recorded in Mark 7:14-23)
Mat 15:1-20 T

God’s will verses Man’s will:
God’s will is not being done: The Lords’s Prayer: Matthew 6:10 T
There are levels to God’s will: Romans 12:2
God will give us over to the desires of our heart:
Jesus was human in every way we are (yet without sin) and he had free will too: Matthew 26:39
Case study:
Adam and Eve were allowed to eat
Cain killed able
People got so bad that God flooded the earth
Noah got drunk and sinned
Abraham and Sarah sinned
Jacob slept with a whore who turned out to be his granddaughter in law
Joseph’s brothers plotted to kill him but sold him into slavery instead
Pharo would not let Gods people go
Moses couldn’t enter the promise land
Children of Isreal worshiping the caff
David wasn’t able to build God’s temple
Children of Isreal went whoring after Baal
The Jews killed their king
Jesus laid down his life
Peter denied christ
Paul chose to kick against the pricks
Mark 10:2-9

God has communicated to his creation in different methods in different periods of time. In this age God uses the Bible to speak to his people, yet most of us don’t read his holy words and miss the warnings, instructions and blessings from his word.
Psalms 81:12 Psalms 125:5 Jeremiah 13:10 2 Timothy 4:3

In the heart is where salvation lies:
Romans 10:9
John 14:6

Transforming the desires of our heart:
EVERYTHING the world says is wrong! We are to be separate from the world, to be different from the world, in fact we are against the world:
1 Peter 1:16,2 Corinthians 6:15-17,Exodus 19:5Titus 2:14
1 Peter 2:9
James 4:4
Philippians 2:15
1 John 2:15-16
How do we know how to do all of this? By reading his word, back to the key text: Hebrews 4:12

God’s expectation for us:
To love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul and mind:
Matthew 22:37 Mark 12:33 Luke 10:27 Deuteronomy 6:5

Do we seek the Lord? 2 Chronicles 12:14
Do we please God? Hebrews 11:6
Do we follow our savior with his people? 2 Timothy 2:22
Do we give our life as a living sacrifice unto The King of Kings? Ephesians 5:1-21
I believe the condition of the heart to be an ongoing battle for the life of the believer. I pray you will choose to spend more time reading his word. Even if its one verse!

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