What have you been thinking about the most recently?

What are the few things that we do when we are worried, anxious, and need answers ?

What's in your Heart?

What is a Heart?

Choices are made from your heart
Emotions are felt in the heart
Thoughts are processed through the heart

Heart influences all our

thoughts’, actions and emotions.

It’s your whole self.

Ezekiel 14:1-3

Then some of the leaders of Israel visited me, and while they were sitting with me,

this message came to me from the Lord:

“Son of man, these leaders have set up idols in their hearts.

They have embraced things that will make them fall into sin.

Why should I listen to their requests?

2 Chronicles 20:12

… For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us.
We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.

Jehoshaphat's Prayer

Ezekiel 14:1-3

Then some of the leaders of Israel visited me, and while they were sitting with me, this message came to me from the Lord:

“Son of man, these leaders have set up

Idols In Their Hearts.

They have embraced things that will make them fall into sin.

Why should I listen to their requests?

It is anything more important to you than God
Anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God
Anything you seek to give you what only God can give.
An idol is whatever you look at and say, in your heart of hearts
“If I have that, then I’ll feel my life has meaning, then I’ll know I have value, then I’ll feel significant and secure.”

What is an Idol?

-in our hearts

- Tim Keller

Leads us to Spiritual Deafness
Leads us to Spiritual Adultery
Leads us to Sin

What Idols will do to us?

3....... Why should I listen to their requests ?

Leads us to Spiritual Deafness

Ezekiel 14:3

Psalm 121:1-2

I lift up my eyes to the mountains—

where does my help come from?

My help comes from the Lord

3. Son of man, these leaders have set up idols in their hearts.

They have embraced things that will make them fall into sin......

4. .......The people of Israel have set up idols in their hearts and fallen into sin

Leads us to Sin

Ezekiel 14:3

Think about what your sins are

Having trouble finding you idol?

Galatians 5:19-20

.... sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division .....

God + "World" Attitude

Leads us to Spiritual Adultery

Matthew 22:37

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind

Jeremiah 3:20

Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband,

so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel,

declares the Lord

1. Then some of the leaders of Israel visited me

3. Son of man, these leaders have set up idols in their hearts.

Leads us to Spiritual Adultery

Ezekiel 14:1,3

Therefore, tell the people of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

Repent and turn away from your idols, and stop all your detestable sins.

REPENT !!

Ezekiel 14:6