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JOTS FROM OLD JAKE OUR HEART: When we speak of the heart today we speak of the center of something. The heart of the matter: meaning the basis of the situation. The heart of an apple would be the apple core. The heart of our body is the blood pump of our physical body. Hebrew words for heart: leb, labe, lebab, lay-bawb' nephesh, neh'-fesh the heart, the soul, the mind, the thinking, the inclinations or determinations of he will; The seat of the emotions and passions. The Hebrew words above that are translated as heart are very widely used to describe the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything, such as understanding, and wisdom. From the Greek text, heart is used mostly to describe the fountain and seat of the thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, and affections. Scripture alludes to us as Body, Soul, Spirit, and Mind. Since we were made after the image of God, I would suggest that we also would be of a trinity nature. My first thought on that was the Body, Soul, and Spirit as being the triune personage of man. But then the scripture throws a new wrinkle into that analogy by adding the mind to the array. I have concluded that the mind has not changed the triune thing at all but encompasses parts of some of the other. Yet another way to look at it is that the Soul, Spirit, and Mind are the triune nature of our person and is just contained for the current time in our body. We do know that we will be given a different body at the rapture� Although there are different meanings to the word heart� each of them have some things in common. They all refer to the center of something! They all refer to being important to putting life into their benefactor! The most important thing to do though is to make sure that Jesus is in the center of your heart. Because He is the life given flow that will make all the rest of the parts well!
(Hebrews 4:12 KJV) For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Ulterior thought: Some people seem to be bright� that is until they open their mouths� the reason for that is� Light travels faster than sound!
Bye for Now!
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