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Create In Me A Clean Heart

• Psalm 5110

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What is the heart?
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What is the heart?

• The heart is the center of mans moral,
  spiritual, and intellectual life.
• It is the place in which one carries out the
  processes of self-consciousness.

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What is the heart?

• Man experiences his emotions in the heart
• love and hate - 1 Pet. 122, Ps. 10525
• joy and sorrow - Eccl. 210, John 166
• peace and bitterness -
  Col. 315, Ezek. 2731
• courage and fear - Jer. 4841, Gen. 4228

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What is the heart?

• Thinking process takes place in the heart.
• Has thoughts and intentions - Heb. 412.
• Where he thinks (Matt. 94), reasons (Mark 26)
  and understands (Job 3836).
• Remembers (Deut. 49) and imagines (Jer. 914)
• Pursues knowledge (Prov. 2217), makes plans
  (Prov. 618), and considers how to respond to
  situations (Prov. 1528).

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What is the heart?

• True worship originates in the heart - Matt. 158
  
• We are to give as we purpose in our heart - 2
  Cor. 97
• We are to make melody in our heart as we sing
  praises unto God - Eph. 519

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What is the heart?

• Faith and obedience originate in the heart,
  securing our souls salvation -
  Rom. 617-18,109-10

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What is the heart?

• The temptation process takes place in the heart.
• Satan is said to put sin in the heart of Judas -
  John 132
• Ananias and Sapphira conceived their plan to sin
  in their hearts - Acts 53-4

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Importance of Keeping the Heart

• Keep your heart with all diligence, for out
  of it spring the issues of life.
• Proverbs 423

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Importance of Keeping the Heart

• 1. The heart guides mans life.
• for out of it spring the issues of life
• A mans heart reveals his true nature - Prov.
  2719, 237
• All sin that defiles man proceeds from the heart
  - Mark 720-23, Matt. 1234-35

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Importance of Keeping the Heart

• 2. Fellowship With God Requires A Pure Heart
• Psalm 5110-11
• Psalm 243-4
• Matthew 58
• Hebrews 1214

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Importance of Keeping the Heart

• 3. Maintain A Clear Conscience
• Psalm 5112

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Importance of Keeping the Heart

• 4. Our Heart Is Vulnerable

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Importance of Keeping the Heart

• 4. Our Heart Is Vulnerable to Evil
• Grow dull and become hardened - Matt.
  1315, Mark 105
• Darkened and blinded - Rom. 121, Eph. 418
• Deceived by self (James 126) and by others
  (Rom. 1618)
• Influenced to sin - John 132, Acts 53-4
• Trained to sin - 2 Pet. 214

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Importance of Keeping the Heart

• 4. Our Heart Is Vulnerable to Good
• Cut, pricked, or stunned - Acts 237
• Purified - Acts 159
• Tested - 1 Thess. 24, Prov. 173
• Established by God (1 Thess. 313) and by self
  (James 58)

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How the Heart is Cleansed
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How the Heart is Cleansed

• God must cleanse our heart.
• Man cannot do this himself - Prov. 209
• Only the shed blood of Jesus Christ can cleanse
  our heart from sin - Heb. 913-14
• This blood is accessed and made affective by our
  faith - Acts 159

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How the Heart is Cleansed

• We must cleanse our own heart.
• James 48

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How the Heart is Cleansed

• We must cleanse our own heart.
• James 48
• These passages are not contradictory, but
  complimentary.
• God does His part, but we must do our part.

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How We Cleanse Our Heart

• Repentance

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How We Cleanse Our Heart

• Repentance
• Cast away from you all the transgressions which
  you have committed, and get yourselves a new
  heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O
  house of Israel?
• Ezekiel 1831

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How We Cleanse Our Heart

• Repentance
• The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a
  broken and a contrite heart - these, O God, You
  will not despise
• Psalm 5117

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How We Cleanse Our Heart

• Safeguards Provided By God

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How We Cleanse Our Heart

• Safeguards Provided By God
• His Word - Ps. 11911

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How We Cleanse Our Heart

• Safeguards Provided By God
• His Word - Ps. 11911
• Prayer - Phil. 46-7

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How We Cleanse Our Heart

• Safeguards Provided By God
• His Word - Ps. 11911
• Prayer - Phil. 46-7
• Meditate Upon Good - Phil. 48

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How We Cleanse Our Heart

• Safeguards Provided By God
• His Word - Ps. 11911
• Prayer - Phil. 46-7
• Meditate Upon Good - Phil. 48
• Learn Good Habits - Phil. 49

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How We Cleanse Our Heart

• Safeguards Provided By God
• His Word - Ps. 11911
• Prayer - Phil. 46-7
• Meditate Upon Good - Phil. 48
• Learn Good Habits - Phil. 49
• Good Companions - Heb. 1024-25

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• Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall
  see God.
• Matthew 58