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Bible Quiz #22 – About a ‘Heart Change’… (ESV of the Bible used here.)
(We look into what God says about the heart of mankind.)

As in most literature and indeed the way mankind has looked at the inner workings of our thoughts and desires, we find that the HEART was considered an instrument of thoughts and emotions… (Perhaps this comes from that feeling that most of us have experienced in tragedy and emotional trauma, where we sense a pain in our chest, a tightening and truly uncomfortable hurt that seems to originate there.

— We now understand that these things originate in our minds, not our hearts.

— So first we will start with what scripture tells us of what is in the ‘heart of the flesh’…

Genesis 6:5-6 (ESV) The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  (6)  And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

Q1. Vs.5 above states… (Choose the correct answer.)

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts ___ ___ ________ was only evil continually.

a/ of his mind     b/ of his soul     c/ of his heart

Q2. From Deuteronomy 4:29 But from there you will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search after him with ___ ____ ________ and with all your soul.

a/ a good telescope     b/ all your heart     c/ all your mind

Q3. From Joshua 24:23 He said, “Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and _______ _____ _______ to the LORD, the God of Israel.”

a/ incline your heart     b/ give your offering     c/ cry out loud

This shows us that as recorded in early mankind’s understanding, the term ‘the heart’ implied the thoughts and emotions that motivate us all. This heart of flesh we have can motivate us towards good or evil. However, our nature tends to want to look after number one, and as such our fleshly hearts tend to self-centered desires.

— As the Prophet Jeremiah wrote in his book of Jeremiah 17:9-10  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?  (10)  “I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

Q4. Whose thoughts are recorded in Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

a/ God’s     b/ Jeremiah’s

Q5. Whose thoughts are recorded in Jeremiah 17:10 “I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

a/ God’s     b/ Jeremiah’s

We see here that God understands the separation of mind and ‘heart’… This also confirms what we can all sense, that there are thought processes that do not involve pure rational thinking… (eg. – emotions).

(Quiz continued on Pg.#2)

Now let’s look at a ‘change of heart’…
We start with the fact that Jeremiah put forward that our fleshly ‘hearts’ are “deceitful above all things, and desperately sick…” — Then comes the change…

Psalm 51:9-12 (of David…) Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.  (10)  Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.  (11)  Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.  (12)  Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

Q6. What is King David asking God for?

a/ For God’s judgment.     b/ For God to excuse his sins.     c/ For God to change his heart.

Q7. Psalm 51:10 reads: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew __ _____ ______ within me.

a/ a right spirit     b/ an old excuse     c/ a recent diversion

Q8. King David knew that God could…

a/ excuse sin     b/ hide faults     c/ change hearts

About the ‘heart’, let’s now hear from the New Testament…

Matthew 22:36-38  “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”  (37)  And He (Jesus) said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  (38)  This is the great and first commandment.

Q9. Can a fleshly heart obey this command to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind?

a/ Yes, If we enter a monastery.     b/ No, for our hearts of flesh tend to self-centeredness.

Q10. From Luke 6:45  (Jesus said) The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
— Can an evil person change and become a good person?

a/ Yes, If they enter a monastery.     b/ No.     c/ Yes, if they turn and follow Christ.

To close this quiz, let’s see what the Apostle Paul wrote of ‘heart changes’…

Romans 10:8-10  But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);  (9)  because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  (10)  For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Q11. (Vs.9) reads… because, ___ _____ confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

a/ if you     b/ don’t ever

Q12. The words, “if you” describe a choice to be made, therefore, Paul is telling us that we can…

a/ Never change our hearts and believe Jesus is Lord.     

b/ Choose to change our hearts and believe Jesus is Lord.

— I pray that all who read this have already confessed with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believed in your heart that God raised him from the dead… for then you’ve already received that CHANGE OF HEART, and are truly saved. Some great day I will be able to walk and talk with you in Glory. (KK)

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