Fools advice: Just follow your Heart or Just Ask the Lord into your Heart
- Is this good advice? Not even close! —> Absolutely never follow your heart! Your heart is nothing but a sin-machine, an emotional wreck, a sin-generator, a place where evil stirs. Trust it not!
- Jeremiah 17:9-10 –> [09] The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? [10] I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
- Matthew 15:18-19 — > [18] But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. [19] For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
- Mark 7:21-23 –> [21] For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, [22] Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: [23] All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
- Jeremiah 17:9-10 –> [09] The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? [10] I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Points to Ponder
- Think about this a little further. Does this ‘heart‘ thing sound like the best place for you to host the Lord, in your sins? Do you realize what you think you are asking?
- Rom_10:6-7 –> [06] But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) [07] Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
- Rom_10:6-7 –> [06] But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) [07] Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
- Never ask the Lord into your heart! You must remember, God is a Spirit!
- John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
- John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
- Are you a good person? Think again. We are far from anything good. The absolute only way to know sin, is the Law. The only way to eternal salvation, is Jesus! The only way we are quickened unto him, is the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: