Bible Readings:
Mark 7:1 – 23
Jeremiah 17:1 – 18
Sermon Outline:
Jeremiah 17:9–10 (NKJV)
9“The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?
10I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.
I A sin sick heart
II The searcher of the heart
III Gosepl cure of the bad heart
The recesses of the heart are so hidden that no judgement can be formed by any human being.
John Calvin
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals.
Martin Luther
The keeping and right mangaing of the hear in every condition is the great business of the Christian’s life.
John Flavel
The heart in the Scriptures is variously used; sometimes for the mind and understanding, sometimes for the will, somtimes for the affection, sometimes fo rthe conscience… General, it denotes the whole soul o f man and all the faculties of it.
John Owen
A man’s heart is what he is.
R. B. Kuiper