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Heart the Core or Center

• Your thoughts, judgments, plans (Mind)
• Your choices and actions (Will)
• Your longings, desire, imagination, dislikes
  (Affection)
• Your sense of right and wrong, which approves or
  reproves your mind will and affections
  (Conscience)

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A person's world is only as big as their heart.
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• Proverbs 423
• Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the
  wellspring of life.

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• Proverbs 237
• As a man thinks in his heart,
• so is he.

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• Luke 645 - The good man brings good things out
  of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil
  man brings evil things out of the evil stored up
  in his heart. For out of the overflow of his
  heart his mouth speaks.

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The Foolish Heart
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The Fool is

• One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or
  understanding

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The Fool is

• One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or
  understanding
• One who acts unwisely on a given occasion

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The Fool is

• One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or
  understanding
• One who acts unwisely on a given occasion
  
• One who has been tricked or made to appear
  ridiculous

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April Fools Day
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• Foolishness is not in the lack of brains, but in
  the misuse of them.
• Foolishness is not the lack of ability. Its the
  lack of character.

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• Romans 715-21 - I do not under-stand what I do.
  For what I want to do I do not do, but what I
  hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to
  do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is,
  it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin
  living in me.

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• 18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is,
  in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do
  what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For
  what I do is not the good I want to do no, the
  evil I do not want to dothis I keep on doing. 20
  Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no
  longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me
  that does it.

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Romans 721 So I find this law at work When I
want to do good, evil is right there with me.
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• There is an evil law at work
• We find this law inside us
• The law is at work even when we
• are at our best

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What Are The Characteristics Of Foolishness?

• 1. A lack of perspective.
• Psalm 141 - The fool says in his
• heart, "There is no God."

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• Proverbs 17 -The fear of the LORD is the
  beginning of knowledge,
• but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
• Proverbs 1215- The way of a fool seems right to
  him,
• but a wise man listens to advice.

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• Jeremiah 422 - 22 "My people are fools
• they do not know me. They are senseless children
  they have no understanding.
• They are skilled in doing evil they know not how
  to do good.".

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• Ecclesiastes 74 the heart of fools is in the
  house of pleasure.
• Proverbs 1223 - the heart of fools blurts out
  folly.

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What Are The Characteristics Of Foolishness?

• 1. A lack of perspective.
• 2. A giving in to the foolish heart.
• 3. Hurting those around you

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• Proverbs 1320 - He who walks with the wise grows
  wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

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How Do We Fight The Foolishness Within?
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• 1. Overcome ignorance through truth
• Matthew 724-27 - "Therefore everyone who
  hears these words of mine and puts them into
  practice is like a wise man who built his house
  on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams
  rose, and the winds blew and beat against that
  house yet it did not fall, because it had its
  foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears
  these words of mine and does not put them into
  practice is like a foolish man who built his
  house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams
  rose, and the winds blew and beat against that
  house, and it fell with a great crash."

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• Overcome ignorance through truth
• 2. Choose those who you want to
• influence you wisely.

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• Overcome ignorance through truth
• 2. Choose those who you want to
• influence you wisely
• 3. Keep pleasure in proper perspective

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• Overcome ignorance through truth
• 2. Choose those who you want to
• influence you wisely
• Keep pleasure in proper perspective
• Call on the Changer of Hearts