Heart influences all our
thoughts’, actions and emotions.
It’s your whole self.
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
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?
-in our hearts
- Tim Keller
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
Ezekiel 14:3
Think about what your sins are
Galatians 5:19-20
.... sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division .....
God + "World" Attitude
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.
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.
Ezekiel 14:6