Two Truths and a Lie – Don’t Follow Your Heart

• • I love my family
  • I love our church
  • I love the Philadelphia Eagles

• I was once on The Price is Right
• I have been to Antarctica
• I can speak 7 languages

• My feelings are the best guide for decision-making.
• If it feels right, it is right.
• The heart needs to be led by God, not followed.
• Follow Your Heart

Jeremiah 17:9 (NLT)  //  “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?”

• If you want to change your life, change your habits.
• If you want to change your habits, let God change your heart.

Psalm 139:23-24  //  Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

2 Samuel 11:1 (NLT)  //  In the spring of the year, when kings normally go out to war, David sent Joab and the Israelite army to fight the Ammonites. … However, David stayed behind in Jerusalem.

Psalm 36:2  //  In their own eyes they flatter themselves too much to detect or hate their sin.

• Cognitive Bias

Psalm 36:2  //  In their own eyes they flatter themselves too much to detect or hate their sin.

• 5 Indicators of Self-Deception
  • Judgmentalism
  • Defensiveness
  • Cynicism
  • Manic Cheeriness
  • Addiction to Distraction

2 Samuel 12:7  //  Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! ...”

• What problem am I denying?
• What sin am I rationalizing?
• What issue am I hiding?
• Watch for what others have tried to tell you.
• Watch for what you rationalize.
• Watch for where you’re most defensive.
• You cannot change what you won’t confront.

Psalm 51:10, 12  //  Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. ... Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

Psalm 139:23-24  //  Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.