Righteousness - A Matter Of The Heart

Righteousness – A Matter Of The Heart

1. Heart Is Deceitful
   Jeremiah 17:9 - The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
   
2. Heart Is The Source Of Issues Of Life
   Proverbs 4:23 - Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life
   Proverbs 16:23 - The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips
   
3. Heart Can Be Hardened
   Exodus 9:12 - And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.
   
4. Jesus Came To Change Our Hearts
   Luke 1:17 - And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
   
   John 7:38 - He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
   
   Example - Our Hearts Can Be Perfect
   2Chronicle 15:17 - But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.