Your Heart Lies To You Every Day
In this sermon‑style monologue Blake Robert Templeton examines the biblical claim that “the heart is deceitful above measure” (Jeremiah) and argues that the deceit stems from allowing incongruent, sinful desires to take root in the heart. He describes a personal word‑study method in which he traced every instance of “fear of the Lord” throughout Scripture, concluding that God’s clear stance against evil demands a corresponding fear in believers. Templeton explains how tolerating what we do not truly hate programs the soul, creates addictive patterns, and ultimately hands control of one’s life over to the “slave lord” of fleshly impulses. The proposed solution is a radical, emotional conviction and activation of the fear of the Lord, which he presents as the means to re‑program the heart and regain self‑governance.
