Deception

Gary Floyd

Heart Attacks • Sermon • Submitted a year ago

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Proverbs 4:23 English Standard Version

New Series: How to Prevent a Heart Attack

Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Two Truths about the Heart

1. The heart is a vitalorgan.

a. Proverbs 4:23 for from it flow the springs of life.

2. The heart must be kept vigilantly.

a. Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all vigilance,

i. Proverbs 4:20 My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

ii. Proverbs 4:21 Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.

iii. Proverbs 4:22 For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.

iv. Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

v. We must protect our heart from that which may harm it.

1. We can have heartache or a broken heart.

2. Our heart can be broken, stolen,, or lost.

vi. We must not let our heart get away from us.

1. Follow your heart. Let your heart guide you. Go with your heart. Trust your feelings.

Heart Attack – Week One: Deception (Jeremiah 17:9)

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

1. deceitful (duplicitous) adj. — marked by deliberate deceptiveness.

2. Desperately sick - incurable adj. — incapable of being cured.

Lies We Tell Ourselves:

1. I’m ok.

2. I can handle it.

3. At least I’m not as bad as ____.

4. I can changehim/her.

5. I know it’s wrong, but...

God knows my heart (Jeremiah 17:10)!

Jeremiah 17:10 “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

How to Prevent Deception from Attacking Your Heart

1. Prayer (Psalm 139:23-24)

a. Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!

b. Psalm 139:24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!

c. Psalm 19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

2. God’s Word (Psalm 119:11)

a. Psalm 119:11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

b. James 1:23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.

c. Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

3. A Trusted Friend (Proverbs 27:6)

a. Proverbs 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

b. Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

4. Receive new lifethrough Jesus Christ (Ephesians 2:1, 4-9).

a. Ephesians 2:1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

b. Ephesians 2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

c. Ephesians 2:5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

d. Ephesians 2:6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

e. Ephesians 2:7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

f. Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,