Filling The Heart. “If I know my heart…” Our heart may deceive us “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?”

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Filling The Heart

“If I know my heart…” Our heart may deceive us “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?” – Jer.17:9

The Heart Homer: heart is seat of emotions (“loving w. all one’s heart”)  Then, seat of moral & intellectual life, including emotions  Later, emphasis falls on reasoning OT: moral center of one’s being. E.g.: evil heart = overtaken by satan NT: usually figurative: center of life, thought, feeling, spiritual response

I. How To Fill A Heart?

1. Empty heart of all filth (Mk.7) Glass full of water… Jn.2; Mt.12 2 Pt.2:14, a heart trained in covetous practices 1 Co.6:9-11 Changed heart Changed people

1. Empty heart of all filth (Mk.7) 2. Set heart on God Dt.24:15  “Counts on it”  “Lift up soul to anything”: wish for… David, 1 Sm.13:14  Suits or pleases one perfectly; someone similar to you 1 Sm.14:7 David, 1 Sm.16:7

1. Empty heart of all filth (Mk.7) 2. Set heart on God David’s heart ‘struck’ him (hurt him) – 1 Sm.24:5; 2 Sm.24:10 Aching heart led him to repent – go to God

1. Empty heart of all filth (Mk.7) 2. Set heart on God 3. Open heart to edifying influences Ac.16:9-10 Direct miraculous call to preachers  Paul must speak to Lydia (10). Ac.8  Lord (not oratory) opens her heart Open heart: enable someone to per- ceive; to rouse in one the faculty of understanding or desire of learning. Lk.24:31-32 – “open the sense of the Scriptures, explain them” –Th.

1. Empty heart of all filth (Mk.7) 2. Set heart on God 3. Open heart to edifying influences If this is a direct opening, why send preachers w. gospel (9)?  How is gospel His power to save (Ro.1:16)?  Why is preaching necessary – 1 Co. 9:16; Ac.26:18?

1. Empty heart of all filth (Mk.7) 2. Set heart on God 3. Open heart to edifying influences If this is a direct opening, why send preachers w. gospel (9)? Absalom: 2 Sm.15:1-6 – stole hearts… Prov.14:14 Parallels: Ac.2:37 (Jn.16:6) If HS directly opens hearts, does He directly close them (Jn.12:37)? Ac.5:3

1. Empty heart of all filth (Mk.7) 2. Set heart on God 3. Open heart to edifying influences 4. Develop interest in heavenly treasure Mt.6: Col.3:1-2 Jesus: Ac.1: Saul: 1 Sm.9:…20

1. Empty heart of all filth (Mk.7) 2. Set heart on God 3. Open heart to edifying influences 4. Develop interest in heavenly treasure 5. Think on right things Ph.4:8  Precept proves possibility Ep.5:19 Ro.12:1-2 (2 Co.3:18) Saul → Paul People change for the better because their heart changes

I. How To Fill A Heart? II. What To Fill A Heart With?

1. Trust, Prov.3:5 Full of confidence. Job 13:15 John 14:1

1. Trust, Prov.3:5 2. Purity, Mt.5:8 Not evil, Jer.3:17 Purity: originally of “clean” things Mt.23:26  Moral usage soon followed, 2 Co.7:1

1. Trust, Prov.3:5 2. Purity,Mt.5:8 3. Forgiveness, Mt.18:…35 Not evil (Mt.15:19) “from your hearts” (Mt.18:35)  Absalom, 2 Sm.13:…23-29  1 Jn.3:12, 15

1. Trust, Prov.3:5 2. Purity,Mt.5:8 3. Forgiveness, Mt.18:…35 4. Love, Mt.22:37 Whole heart Not partial (Rv.2:4)

1. Trust, Prov.3:5 2. Purity,Mt.5:8 3. Forgiveness, Mt.18:…35 4. Love, Mt.22:37 5. Obedience, Ro.6:17 Not dull (Mt.13:15) “Obedience” w/o the heart is mere formality “Baptized”... but it doesn’t “take”

1. Trust, Prov.3:5 2. Purity,Mt.5:8 3. Forgiveness, Mt.18:…35 4. Love, Mt.22:37 5. Obedience, Ro.6:17 6. Peace, Col.3:15 Not unrest (Ac.8:21-23) “Rule” – control

1. Trust, Prov.3:5 2. Purity,Mt.5:8 3. Forgiveness, Mt.18:…35 4. Love, Mt.22:37 5. Obedience, Ro.6:17 6. Peace, Col.3:15 7. Word of God, Col.3:16 Not unbelief, Hb.3:12 “Richly”

1. Trust, Prov.3:5 2. Purity,Mt.5:8 3. Forgiveness, Mt.18:…35 4. Love, Mt.22:37 5. Obedience, Ro.6:17 6. Peace, Col.3:15 7. Word of God, Col.3:16 8. Sincerity, Col.3:22 Not hard (Ex.4:21) Not double (Ps.12:2)

1. Trust, Prov.3:5 2. Purity,Mt.5:8 3. Forgiveness, Mt.18:…35 4. Love, Mt.22:37 5. Obedience, Ro.6:17 6. Peace, Col.3:15 7. Word of God, Col.3:16 8. Sincerity, Col.3:22 9. Good works, Ac.9:…36 Not evil (Jn.7:7) Elymas, Ac.13:10 “To my God, a heart of flame; to my fellow men, a heart of love; to myself, a heart of steel”