QuickThoughts: Can We Know Their Heart?

Can we know the heart of a professing Christian?

Often times, the answer is yes! There are limitations, of course; only God knows the heart without limit.

However:

📘You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

Matthew 12:34

📘 But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false witness, slanders.

Matthew 15:18-19

📘 So then, you will know them by their fruits.

Matthew 7:20

We need to be much slower with propping up everyone who claims the name of Christ.

Nearly every false teacher and heretic in history has claimed to be a believer.

We will know them by their fruits, the words of their mouth and the works of their hands.