An outline of just how important our heart is to God.

1. HEART MATTERS
2 Peter 3:10 – 12
But the day of the Lord will come
like a thief. The heavens will
disappear with a roar; the elements
will be destroyed by fire, and the
earth and everything in it will be
laid bare.

2. • Seeing then that all these things shall
be dissolved, what manner of
persons ought ye to be in all holy
conversation and godliness,
• as you look forward to the day of
God and speed its coming. That day
will bring about the destruction of
the heavens by fire, and the
elements will melt in the heat.

3. Prov. 23 : 7
• As a man thinketh in his heart so he
is….

4. BIBLICAL INSIGHT TO THE HEART
1 Sam 16:7
–But the LORD said to Samuel, Look
not on his countenance, or on the
height of his stature; because I
have refused him: for
the LORD sees not as man sees; for
man looks on the outward
appearance, but the LORD looks on
the heart.

5. Jeremiah 17:9-10
–9 “The heart is deceitful above
all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
10
I, the LORD, search the heart,
and test the mind,
Even to give every man according
to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings.

6. Matthew 15:17-20
• 17 ”Do you not yet understand that
whatever enters the mouth goes into the
stomach and is eliminated? 18 But those
things which proceed out of the mouth
come from the heart, and they defile a
man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil
thoughts, murders, adulteries,
fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies. 20 These are the
things which defile a man,....“

7. • Proverbs 27:19
– As in water face reflects face,
So a man’s heart reveals the man.
• Isaiah 29:13-14
• 13 Therefore the Lord said:
• “Inasmuch as these people draw near
with their mouths
And honor Me with their lips,
But have removed their hearts far from
Me, And their fear toward Me is taught
by the commandment of men,….”

8. • Where a man’s treasure is there will
his heart be also.
• Solomon’s heart was turned away
from God by women. 1 Kings 11:4

9. TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH
Romans 8:1 – 16
–The carnal minded people
–The spiritually minded people

10. Conclusion
• Let’s refer to the question at the
beginning of this message involving
what manner of persons we aught to
be:

11. Answer:
Psalm 24:3-10
–3 Who may ascend into the hill of
the LORD?
Or who may stand in His holy
place?
4
He who has clean hands and a
pure heart,…...

12. Psalm 66:18
– If I regard iniquity in my heart,
The Lord will not hear.

13. Matthew 5:8
–Blessed are the pure in heart: for
they shall see God.

14. What should we do?
2 Corinthians 10:4-6
– 4 For the weapons of our
warfare are not carnal but mighty in
God for pulling down
strongholds, 5 casting down arguments
and every high thing that exalts itself
against the knowledge of God,
bringing every thought into captivity
to the obedience of Christ

15. What Should We Do? Cont.
Heb. 4:12 KJV
– "For the word of God [is] quick, and
powerful, and sharper than any two-
edged sword, piercing even to the
dividing asunder of soul and spirit,
and of the joints and marrow, and
[is] a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart."

16. What Should We Do? Cont.
Psalm 119:11
–“ Your word I have hidden in my
heart,
That I might not sin against You”.