{"id":719,"date":"2011-09-24T08:25:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T13:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:26","slug":"a-clean-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"A Clean Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mark 7:21-23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> &#8220;Where your treasure is there will your heart be also.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Luke 12:34<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> &#8220;Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his statue; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth, for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.&#8221; Sam. 1 16:7<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong> I: The physical heart:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Beats from 60-80 times a minute, 4,320 times an hour, 100,000 times a day, 40 million times a year. Exerts enough energy every 24 hours to raise a 2 lb. weight 12 miles into the air.<br \/>\n2. The capillaries laid side by side would extend around the world 4 times.<br \/>\n3. Equivalent to 10 tons of blood forced thru the body every 24 hours.<br \/>\n4. 5,000,000 little boats called corpuscles loading and unloading, fighting, dividing, uniting, carrying on the war against disease, all traveling the blood stream from the heart.<\/p>\n<p><strong> II: The spiritual heart.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. From this fountain flows the issues of live. Proverbs 4:23.<br \/>\n2. Character determined. &#8220;For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.&#8221; Prov. 23:7<br \/>\n3. The source of evil. Matthew 15:18.<br \/>\n4. Desperately wicked.<br \/>\n5. No man can change the heart.<\/p>\n<p><strong> III: The regenerated heart.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Demonstrated by a changed life.<br \/>\n2. Changing of our treasure.<br \/>\n3. Produces the fruit of the Spirit.<br \/>\n4. &#8220;My son give me thine heart.&#8221; God creates in us a new heart.<\/p>\n<p><strong> &#8220;For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.&#8221; Romans 10:10 (The keeper of the springs).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark 7:21-23 &#8220;Where your treasure is there will your heart be also.&#8221; Luke 12:34 &#8220;Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his statue; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth, for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.&#8221; Sam. 1 16:7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}