READ: Deuteronomy 5:23-33
“Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always…” – Deuteronomy 5:29, NIV
Fight against an erring heart. A person with an erring heart has wandered away from a right course. “Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, it is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:” (Psalms 95:10).
“Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways” (Hebrews 3:10).
Fight against a troubled heart. A troubled heart is a worried heart. A troubled heart has many problems and conflicts that swirl within. “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me”
John 14:1).
“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27).
Fight against a stiff-necked heart. A stiff-necked heart is full of pride and unwilling to do what other people want. Above all, a stiff-necked heart does not want to do what God wants. “Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye” (Acts 7:51).
“Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you” (2 Chronicles 30:8).