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when Stephen of kalana fell into the
hands of his assailants and they asked
him in derision
where now is your Fortress
Stephen placed his hand over his heart
and said here is my Fortress
Helen Keller who is blind and deaf and
dumb wrote the best and most wonderful
things in the world cannot be seen or
touched
but it just felt in the heart
you see the heart has come to stand for
the center of the moral spiritual and
intellectual life of a person it’s the
seed of a person’s conscience in life
and extremely important and the question
I want to ask you tonight is this is
your heart right
is your heart right is it right with God
because if it’s not right with God
your sins are not forgiven
you’re not going to heaven when you die
our hearts have to be right
I do not ask about your outward life I
don’t ask about your intellectual life
or your financial status or your social
life
I’m asking about your heart What About
Your Heart dig deep into your heart
tonight in your thinking how are you
toward God
are you right with God
the Bible says prepare to meet thy God
and before you can prepare to meet God
your heart has to be right and your
heart has to be touched by the Holy
Spirit
now what does the bible teach about the
heart the Bible teaches that our hearts
are sinful
their sinful mine is yours is we’re born
with it from Adam and Eve it’s passed on
from generation to generation and the
Bible says first of all that our hearts
are full of evil imaginations
Proverbs 6 18 A Heart That dividesth
Wicked imaginations what do you imagine
what are your fantasies
what are you fantasize about
and then secondly the Bible says the
heart is desperately wicked and
deceitful Jeremiah 17 9 the heart is
deceitful above all things and
desperately wicked who can know it
that’s your heart
that’s what the Bible thinks of your
heart that’s what God thinks about your
heart and my heart
the Bible says the heart is far from God
in Matthew 15. this people draweth nigh
to me with their mouth
and honoreth me with their lips but
their heart is far from me
how many of us go to church and sing
how many of us go to church and listen
to the clergyman how many of us
outwardly live a fairly good life but
our heart is far from God we don’t have
that experience with Christ in which
he’s in our hearts all day long and we
think about him and pray to him and he’s
close to us
but he should be and we’re not bearing
in our bodies and lives the Fruit of the
Spirit
which is love and joy and peace and
gentleness faithfulness
and then the Bible says our hearts are
treasury of evil Mark 7 Jesus said for
within out of the heart
perceive evil thoughts
evil thoughts come from the heart
adulteries
you might commit adultery with your body
but it starts in the heart and in the
mind and fornications
and murders and thefts and covetousness
and wickedness and deceit lasciviousness
and evil eye blasphemy Pride foolishness
all these things the Bibles Jesus said
come from the heart
so the most important thing in the world
for you tonight is to be sure that your
heart is right with God and that you
have been forgiven of all those things
and how many today
have darkened Hearts I’m sometimes
absolutely amazed at their ignorance
of the world
and the ignorance comes from the fact
that they don’t know God they don’t know
the Bible
they don’t know God’s plan of the ages
and so they make so many mistakes
because their heart is dark and Satan
has blinded their eyes
and many times I I’ve talked to people
who have very little education but they
know God
and they know more about what’s wrong
and how to write it than those people
with all the brilliant education
you see there’s something wrong with us
that
we don’t recognize in the world in which
we live
our world is secular
our world doesn’t want to take into
account that God exists
or that man is made in the image of God
his heart is made in God’s image and
made for fellowship with God and without
God it’s dark you see he darkens our
under the devil darkens our
understanding sin darkens our
understanding
sin paralyzes our will
does the conscience
and defiles the heart
and then the Bible says that we have
unbelieving hearts take heed Brethren
unless there be any among you with an
evil heart of unbelief in departing from
the Living God Hebrews the third chapter
and then our hearts are blind
Ephesians 4 having the understanding
darkened being alienated from the life
of God through the ignorance that is in
them because of the blindness of their
heart
our hearts are blind