Nothing gets our attention like a heart problem.
The Heart is the center of who you are.  The heart is the center of your physical, emotional, spiritual, & intellectual.
Proverbs 4:23 says that EVERYTHING flows out of the heart.
Heart problems are crippling in every way. Because everything flows out of our heart we should make sure we know what is in our heart.
The Bible tells us what Love is.  It is patient, it is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast... (1 Corinthians 13:4-8)
There are times we are not patient, kind, or other.  We often attribute problems to other people or our personality ticks. God's Word tells us to look within our hearts instead of placing the blame on others or situations.
We do not have a patience problem... We have a LOVE problem.  Our anger issue is a HEART problem.
If we will own our problem, we can turn to God and receive a brand new heart.
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First Love 3 – Heart Problems
Sermon notes by Chris Fluitt
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First Love
We are in the 3rd week of our First Love series.  Last week we looked at Luke 10 and discussed the Lawyer, the Loophole, & Love.   Love has no Loopholes. We should love God and love our neighbor as ourselves.  Jesus is our Neighbor – He is the Good Samaritan.  He loves us without loopholes.
As I start I want to ask a question. No need to answer out loud, but really come up with an answer in your heart.
Do I have trouble Loving?
Today I was to talk about… Heart problems
The heart is essential to the human body.
Some parts of the body you could damage or lose and the body would still function.
Severed spine
Lose a limb
You could even remove parts of your brain and still be alive
BUT YOU DON’T FUNCTION WITHOUT A HEART
The Heart does so much in your Body that we take for granted.
Pumps Life through your Body.
It works in tandem with your kidneys to clean your blood from toxins. It pumps your blood through that filter.
The heart carries Oxygen throughout the body
 
The Bible tells us that the Heart is important.
Proverbs 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.(NIV)
Luke 6:45 The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.(NIV)
The Heart is the center of who you are in a physical sense and also a spiritual, emotional, and intellectual sense.
Everything comes from the center of who you are… your heart.
What is in your heart?
Sometimes we are surprised by what is in our heart..
We can’t really see our heart.  We have to get special equipment to scan the physical chambers of your heart. Harder still to look into someone heart and know what they are thinking or how they feel.
We are often fooled by others.  Surprised by what comes out of their heart.
But if we are honest aren’t we just a surprised by our own hearts?
God is never fooled
1 Samuel 16:7 The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."
 
Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.(NIV)
Often we seek to change our actions… But we fail because we have not changed our heart.
Everything flows out of the heart…  You really want to change your life – Change your heart.
 
We have been talking about keeping love first.  Now there are some strategies we can learn to help us. We can better understand each other’s love language.