Preached by Chris Broom, 4/12/2009

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Leah (left) has a heart to serve the poor overseas in a month long mission!

Mark Series part 13, The Heart – Outline

You can’t understand the cross until you examine your heart.

Mark 7:14-23
Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a man can make him ‘unclean’ by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him ‘unclean.’” After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him ‘unclean’? For it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods “clean.”) He went on: “What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’ For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man ‘unclean.’”

- Defilement comes from an impure heart.
- Fellowship with God is defiled by sin.

Matthew 23:25
- Don’t be a hypocrite.
- God is concerned about our hearts.

Proverbs 4:23
- Above all else, guard your heart. It is the wellspring of life.
- We have facilities to purify our water, and oil refineries to refine oil. Are you going to Jesus to purify your heart?
- Deal with your heart.
- Stop blaming other people for your sin. Sin separates us from God and from other people.
- God wants you to get open and get help.
- Are you grateful for what Jesus has done for you? He died for you. Then deal with your heart.

Romans 6:1-4
- God’s vision is that we can live a new life through Jesus. Fall in love with God with all your heart.

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