Did you know the Greek interlinear tells us that the Heart - Kardia 2588 : Heart literally means ; heart; mind; character; inner self, will, intent center? The affective center of our being - and the capacity of moral preference; volitional desire - choice - desire producer that makes us tick - our desire - decisions that establish who we really are. Kardia or heart - is mentioned over 800 times in scripture; but never refers to the pumping that drives blood.
Mark 7: 17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. 18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
Who will deliver us from this heart problem ? But that of the Lord Jesus Christ! What wonderful news by and through the spirit!
We have a war between our mind and the spirit; a choice to either live by the mind of the flesh or the spiritual newness of life in Christ Jesus within us by and through faith?
Mark 7: 17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. 18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
Who will deliver us from this heart problem ? But that of the Lord Jesus Christ! What wonderful news by and through the spirit!
We have a war between our mind and the spirit; a choice to either live by the mind of the flesh or the spiritual newness of life in Christ Jesus within us by and through faith?
