Follow your heart

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Follow your heart!

• Proverbs 161-6

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The Heart

• Created in the image of God, Gen.
  126-27 225
• Born innocent, Matt. 183 Rom. 79
• The heart is deceitful above all things, and
  desperately wicked Who can know it? (Jer. 179)
• What happened? Eccl. 729

3
Temptation and Sin

• Lusts from within and enticements from without,
  Jas. 112-16
• They have sought out many schemes Eccl. 729
• Sin takes opportunity, Rom. 78, 11
• Sin lies at the door Must rule over it,
  Genesis 47

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Temptation and Sin

• Foolish to trust your heart as your standard and
  guide, Prov. 2826 1625
• Our ways are pure to us, but God judges, Prov.
  161-3
• Contrast mans heart and Gods counsel, Prov.
  1921
• Cain Abel Do not follow your heart

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Follow your heart!

• In personal faith, Gen. 43-5 Heb. 114
• Cain Followed his heart Not righteous
• Abel Acted by faith Righteous
• Saul, Acts 269 1 Tim. 113
• Heart may convince us we have personal faith, but
  what does the Bible say?!

6
Follow your heart!

• In religious service, Gen. 43-5 Heb. 114 (Jas.
  126)
• Cain Gave what he knew valued It was what he
  wanted to give Rejected
• Abel Gave what he knew valued It was what God
  wanted him to give Accepted

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Follow your heart!

• Service offered without Gods word of approval is
  rejected, Matthew 721-23
• Worship (Jno. 424)
• The church (Matt. 1618 Eph. 122-23 44
  523)
• Doctrine (Col. 317 2 Tim. 310)
• -Proverbs 1625 Jeremiah 179-

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Follow your heart!

• In personal morality, Gen. 48 (Mk. 721)
• Cain Anger, hate and murder
• Works were evil, 1 Jno. 312, 10
• Anger, Gen. 45-6
• Premeditation, Gen. 48
• Liar, Gen. 49
• Abel Works were righteous, 1 Jno. 312

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Follow your heart!

• In personal morality
• Evil language, Eph. 429 54
• Heart that is not converted to purity
• Worldly values conduct, 1 Pet. 41-3
• Mind that is controlled by the flesh
• Dishonesty, Eph. 425 1 Pet. 212
• Heart that is deceiving itself
• -Proverbs 1625 Jeremiah 179-

10
Follow your heart!

• In family values, Gen. 49 (1 Jno. 3 11-12)
• Cain Am I my brothers keeper?
• No love in his heart
• Family love and brotherly love,
  Col. 319 Titus 24 1 John 313-15

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Follow your heart!

• Many unloving things while following my heart,
  Gen. 49 (1 Jno. 311-12)
• Divorce, Matthew 196
• Demanding and selfish, Eph. 521, 33
• Disobey parents, Ephesians 61-3
• Disrespectful of each other, Matt. 712
• -Prov. 1625 Jer. 179-

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The heart is deceitful

• Not because God created it that way
• Because we yield to temptation
• Sin distorts, damages and destroys the hearts
  purity and innocence
• Cain Following heart led to vain worship, anger,
  hatred, murder, lying and curse (Jude 11)
• Abel Lived by faith in God His word