Bless Your Heart

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Bless Your Heart

• May 31st, 2005

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Bless Your Heart

• Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it
  are the issues of life. Proverbs 423 KJV
• Keep vigilant watch over your heart that's where
  life starts. Proverbs 423 MSG
• Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it
  are the outgoings of life. Proverbs 423 YLT

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What is your Heart?

• Your Heart, it is your intellect, your ego, the
  person you are when no one is around. It is the
  culmination of your weakness and strengths, it is
  what you boil down to. Not your aspirations,
  desires or good intentions, your heart is the
  center and reality of who you are.

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Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it
are the issues of life.

• Keep Thy Heart
• KEEP A primitive root to guard, in a good
  sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc. monument,
  observe, preserver, watcher (-man).
• HEART the heart also used (figuratively) very
  widely for the feelings, the will and even the
  intellect likewise for the centre of anything

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Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it
are the issues of life.

• With All Diligence
• Guarding a Deposit

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OUT OF IT

• And he called the multitude, and said unto them,
  Hear, and understand
• (11) Not that which goeth into the mouth
  defileth a man but that which cometh out of the
  mouth, this defileth a man.
• (12) Then came his disciples, and said unto him,
  Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended,
  after they heard this saying?
• (13) But he answered and said, Every plant,
  which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall
  be rooted up.
• (14) Let them alone they be blind leaders of
  the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both
  shall fall into the ditch.

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• (15) Then answered Peter and said unto him,
  Declare unto us this parable.
• (16) And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without
  understanding?
• (17) Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever
  entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly,
  and is cast out into the draught?
• (18) But those things which proceed out of the
  mouth come forth from the heart and they defile
  the 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
  but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a
  man.

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Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it
are the issues of life.

• The heart is deceitful above all things, and
  desperately wicked who can know it?
• I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins,
  even to give every man according to his ways, and
  according to the fruit of his doings.
• Jeremiah 179-10 KJV

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Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it
are the issues of life.

• THE ISSUES OF LIFE
• Consider the Human Heart
• A good man out of the good treasure of his heart
  bringeth forth that which is good and an evil
  man out of the evil treasure of his heart
  bringeth forth that which is evil for of the
  abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. Luke
  645 KJV

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Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it
are the issues of life.

• Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see
  God.
• Create in me a clean heart, O God and renew a
  right spirit within me.
• Psalms 5110 KJV