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Heart disease, it’s a killer!
One in every 3 deaths in the US is caused by heart disease according the American Heart Association in 2013.
That and strokes are #1 and #2 worldwide as of 2016.
But there is another killer out there, spiritual heart disease.
Spiritual heart dis-ease can spiritually kill, steal, destroy the Christian in his walk of faith.
What we allow into our heart, matters.
There is a cure for spiritual heart trouble.
Tonight we will look at the command (implied); the cause and the challenge.
(Jer17:9)
(Healthy Heart: already saved on the computer)
In the Hebrew the heart is the “kernel of the nut;” the internal citadel of the soul.
It is the central part of our being in which our blood flows and that is where our life flows from.
Our spiritual life depends on the heart too, and the heart can be deceitful so we need to be sure to take care of our physical heart and take care of our spiritual heart.
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The Command
A command is not a suggestion is it?
A command is given for our instruction and for our protection, even when the word is not given but implied as it is in this section.
Pay attention as we look at this section for the instructions and the reasons
What do you see, what do you notice, what sticks out to you?
The heart, we are to watch over it (Pro4:23; Lk21:34)
The heart, again the central or innermost part of something.
The term “the heart” is used some 90 times in the Proverbs alone.
In (v.23) it says watch over in the NASB); in other versions it says, guard, keep, carefully guard, above everything else guard, with all watchfulness, above every charge keep thy heart.
The heart needs to be protected with all diligence (Php4:7; Heb6:11)
The heart needs to be guarded like a basketball, when in your possession you guard it and you also on defense try to protect the basket from anything going in, right?
Protecting the heart takes diligence.
It needs to be protected with the reason just noted back in (Lk21:34) so we are not weighted down and suddenly we are not prepared.
When we know what we have in God, when we know we have God through the Christ, then we have peace with God and that peace will guard our hearts and minds.
But it takes diligence, it takes effort
Persevere until the end!
We need to make guarding the heart a priority!
Because, remember left unattended, unguarded it can lead to heart dis-ease.
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The Cause
Garbage in = garbage out, you maybe familiar with that term.
What we allow in, is what is going to come out.
What we allow in is a major cause of spiritual heart dis-ease.
The heart is likened to a fountain (Pro4:23) but also seen in Lk6:45 and Jn7:38
The heart determines your direction, your direction determines your destination, your destination will display the contents of your heart.
The heart can be filled with good as we just looked at, but it can be filled with bad too (Jer2:13).
(expand on broken cisterns; man’s effort vs. God’s)
Our character, our morals, our scruples all come from the outpouring (flow) of the heart.
The condition of the heart determines the outflow of the fountain and our final destination is directly correlated to the state of our heart, so we need to be diligent in what we allow in and be on guard to keep things out.
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The Challenge
Who is up for a good challenge?
As Christians we face many challenges.
Diligently protecting the heart is one of them with a reason.
We need to give all attention, all diligence, make every effort to protect the heart, the kernel of the nut, the center of our life in which flows our life.
We need to make sure there is no inlet for sin, so now, look at this section and see the challenge, the instructions we are given and the reason.
Now we previously looked at general the passage, but now look again, specifically what are we to do?
Put away, put away a deceitful mouth
Put far from you, devious speech
Look directly ahead, set your gaze to be fixed straight ahead
Do not turn to right or left
Turn foot from evil
So how do we apply some of this, do some of this?
By controlled speech (Pro4:24; Pro6:12; Jam1:26; Jam3:5-6)
Don’t have a perverse mouth, perverse speech, when we don’t have a controlled tongue we are deceiving ourselves
From what we allow into our heart, comes the flow of the mouth, so we need to control the mouth, the tongue
By controlled Motive - Knowledge, things to remember (Eph5:3-5; Col3:5; 1The4:3)
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Controlled motive determines direction and destination
Controlled motive is accomplished by what we fix our eyes on, the intent of our heart and having the right focus
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No immoral person will enter into the kingdom; we are to be dead to immorality
and we are to abstain from immoral behavior
So, what are your eyes fixed on?
What is your goal?
how do you get to your goal?
Controlled Conduct (Pro4:26-27)
Conduct proves the heart; be careful of what you allow into your heart
So we need to watch our path, our feet
We need to let our feet be established
Be rooted and grounded
Be Grounded
May we be rooted, grounded, demonstrating the love of God that is in us.
don’t turn to the right or the let, stay the course, to the narrow road.
Turn from evil
For God is the searcher of the heart, so be diligent in protecting your heart.
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