WEBVTT 00:00:00.070 --> 00:00:03.750 that's next Sunday right after the first service will be the first kids choir 00:00:03.750 --> 00:00:10.290 practice so please be there if you're going to participate November 25th to 00:00:10.290 --> 00:00:13.870 Wednesdays from now that service is going to be canceled for people to be 00:00:13.870 --> 00:00:17.610 able to travel and just have time you know the next day maybe prep for 00:00:17.610 --> 00:00:22.940 Thanksgiving so the mid service will be on the 24th Tuesday the day before so 00:00:22.940 --> 00:00:26.640 hope to see you guys there and I hope you don't make the trip on Wednesday on 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:31.660 November 30th will be the next man's preaching night and we're also going to 00:00:31.660 --> 00:00:37.110 have a pie social that night so your man looking there please little brother 00:00:37.110 --> 00:00:42.620 Remy know so he can make a schedule for the preaching and just bring a pie I 00:00:42.620 --> 00:00:45.960 don't care if there's duplicates maybe someone does but I'm fine with duplicates 00:00:45.960 --> 00:01:18.220 of good pies so you got another one up here I don't know if that's settled so 00:01:18.220 --> 00:01:27.000 that's coming up at the end of the month so just look forward all right you know 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:31.370 sorry it's just not this church I mean almost every other church done no I'm 00:01:31.370 --> 00:01:38.710 joking all right so kids if you would like a piece of candy memorize John 14 00:01:38.710 --> 00:01:44.770 verse 6 John 14 verse 6 Jesus saying to him I am the way the truth and the life 00:01:44.770 --> 00:01:50.920 no man cometh unto me unto the Father but by me so do better than I just did 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:56.520 and you can get some candy all right all right we sing happy birthday earlier 00:01:56.520 --> 00:02:01.090 today if you have any other few any other prayer requests please let the 00:02:01.090 --> 00:02:05.080 Thompsons know and they will add it into the bulletin but with that let's turn to 00:02:05.080 --> 00:04:03.860 the Lord in prayer all right if you want to take your Bibles and turn to Psalm 00:04:03.860 --> 00:05:01.610 number 126 Psalm number 126 00:05:01.610 --> 00:06:44.080 Sure Foundation Baptist Church if you could go ahead and take your Bibles and 00:06:44.080 --> 00:06:53.000 turn to Leviticus chapter 17 Leviticus chapter 17 and as everybody knows here 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.650 at Sure Foundation Baptist Church we read the entire chapter before the 00:06:56.650 --> 00:07:04.040 preaching Leviticus 17 the Bible reads and the Lord spake unto Moses saying 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:10.900 speak unto Aaron and unto his sons and unto all the children of Israel and say 00:07:10.900 --> 00:07:17.310 unto them this is the thing which the Lord hath commanded saying what man so 00:07:17.310 --> 00:07:23.270 ever there be of the house of Israel killeth an ox or lamb or goats in the 00:07:23.270 --> 00:07:29.460 camp or that killeth it out of the camp and bringeth it not unto the door of the 00:07:29.460 --> 00:07:34.180 tabernacle of the congregation to offer an offering unto the Lord before the 00:07:34.180 --> 00:07:39.970 tabernacle of the Lord blood shall be imputed unto that man he hath shed blood 00:07:39.970 --> 00:07:47.380 and that man shall be cut off from among his people to the end that the children 00:07:47.380 --> 00:07:53.060 of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they offer in the open field even 00:07:53.060 --> 00:07:58.750 that they may bring them unto the Lord unto the door of the tabernacle of the 00:07:58.750 --> 00:08:04.470 congregation unto the priests and offer them for peace offerings unto the Lord 00:08:04.470 --> 00:08:09.940 and the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the Lord at the door 00:08:09.940 --> 00:08:16.070 of the tabernacle of the congregation and burn the fat for a sweet savor unto 00:08:16.070 --> 00:08:22.450 the Lord and they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils after whom 00:08:22.450 --> 00:08:28.220 they have gone a-whoring. This shall be a statute forever unto them throughout 00:08:28.220 --> 00:08:34.530 their generations and thou shalt say unto them whatsoever man there be of the 00:08:34.530 --> 00:08:39.750 house of Israel or of the strangers which sojourn among you that offer a 00:08:39.750 --> 00:08:45.080 burnt offering or sacrifice and bringeth it not unto the door of the 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:50.690 tabernacle of the congregation to offer it unto the Lord. Even that man shall be 00:08:50.690 --> 00:08:56.900 cut off from among his people and whatsoever a man there be of the house 00:08:56.900 --> 00:09:02.200 of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that eateth any manner 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:08.430 of blood. I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood and will cut 00:09:08.430 --> 00:09:14.620 him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood and I 00:09:14.620 --> 00:09:20.260 have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls for it 00:09:20.260 --> 00:09:25.530 is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. Therefore I said unto the 00:09:25.530 --> 00:09:31.410 children of Israel no soul of you shall eat blood neither shall any stranger 00:09:31.410 --> 00:09:36.480 that sojourn at the among you eat blood and whatsoever man there be of the 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:41.990 children of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you which hunted and 00:09:41.990 --> 00:09:48.130 catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten he shall even pour out the blood 00:09:48.130 --> 00:09:55.860 thereof and cover it with dust for it is the life of all flesh the blood of it 00:09:55.860 --> 00:10:01.640 is for the life thereof therefore I said unto the children of Israel ye shall 00:10:01.640 --> 00:10:08.260 eat the blood of no manner of flesh for the life of all flesh is in the blood 00:10:08.260 --> 00:10:14.870 thereof whosoever eateth it shall be cut off and every soul that eateth that 00:10:14.870 --> 00:10:21.450 which died of itself or that which was torn with beasts whether it be one of 00:10:21.450 --> 00:10:27.420 your own country or a stranger he shall both wash his clothes and bathe himself 00:10:27.420 --> 00:10:34.660 in water and be unclean until the even then shall he be clean but if he washed 00:10:34.660 --> 00:10:41.420 them not nor bathe his flesh then he shall bear his iniquity brother Kyle 00:10:41.420 --> 00:11:16.870 could you please pray for the preaching the moment we are born before we're 00:11:16.870 --> 00:11:21.300 even known before doctors even know that there's a child within the mother the 00:11:21.300 --> 00:11:30.210 heart beats it is the first organ that forms and from the moment life takes 00:11:30.210 --> 00:11:37.360 hold until the moment a doctor will write down the passing of someone it is 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:44.200 from the track from the moment the last heartbeat takes the chapter you just 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:51.590 read says life is in the blood the blood is our life but what manages the blood 00:11:51.590 --> 00:12:01.810 is the heart this is a symbol of life and as I said before even our scientists 00:12:01.810 --> 00:12:04.670 before you could even take a test at home before you could even know if 00:12:04.670 --> 00:12:10.390 you're pregnant there is a heartbeat within you because it is the first sign 00:12:10.390 --> 00:12:17.170 of life in that beating that we all hear if you sit silently enough in your house 00:12:17.170 --> 00:12:24.430 you know even in a calm time you can hear your own heartbeat in the times of 00:12:24.430 --> 00:12:31.860 anger pride sadness grief it rings within our ears and understand through 00:12:31.860 --> 00:12:39.080 our culture throughout many things the heart is the sign of life and we could 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:43.960 get even as silly as this that you know video games like Zelda how many hearts 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:47.840 do you have that's how much life you have so what I bring this up is people 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:52.590 take you know the words of God and we'll get into this that they're like well it 00:12:52.590 --> 00:12:56.620 seems like they think that's that's where the person is is in the heart 00:12:56.620 --> 00:13:01.100 because over almost 700 times the Bible mentions the heart and it's not so much 00:13:01.100 --> 00:13:06.580 alike it's who you are it's your passions it's your want but understand 00:13:06.580 --> 00:13:12.920 the heart is I believe kind of the center of our flesh and if you don't 00:13:12.920 --> 00:13:16.370 agree with that that's fine take the symbolism that I think the Bible uses 00:13:16.370 --> 00:13:22.400 with the heart because understand this your life is tied to your heart and it 00:13:22.400 --> 00:13:26.620 is an amazing thing now here's the thing is can't you see the design of God 00:13:26.620 --> 00:13:31.790 within the heart isn't amazing somebody thinks accidentally this organ that is 00:13:31.790 --> 00:13:36.150 going to work non-stop for decades it's just going to operate and let me tell 00:13:36.150 --> 00:13:42.530 you when it fails so do you it is a center of life and now I just had you 00:13:42.530 --> 00:13:48.570 read Leviticus 17 but if you look down in verse 11 it says for the life of the 00:13:48.570 --> 00:13:53.230 flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you upon the altar to make 00:13:53.230 --> 00:13:58.270 atonement for your souls for it is the blood that make it an atonement for our 00:13:58.270 --> 00:14:02.650 souls we understand this that the blood is the life and understand even though 00:14:02.650 --> 00:14:07.170 the bloods of bulls and goats cannot save us but the offering of Christ's 00:14:07.170 --> 00:14:12.200 blood is what was precious but the whole thing here is I want you to focus on the 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:17.560 heart because without the heart the blood dies within you there's a whole 00:14:17.560 --> 00:14:21.090 circulatory thing and understand if you want to see what I would think is the 00:14:21.090 --> 00:14:25.020 fingerprints of God upon you because understand God said there is no excuse 00:14:25.020 --> 00:14:29.350 to those that try to deny that there's a God for today just focus upon the heart 00:14:29.350 --> 00:14:38.420 this organ this center of your circular system has to operate for decades your 00:14:38.420 --> 00:14:42.940 stomach you can take a fast they can do cleansings of this you can rest off your 00:14:42.940 --> 00:14:49.480 feet but your heart cannot take a break it can slow down you can wrap you can 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:57.610 exercise it but it cannot miss it cannot take a break you are telling me it fell 00:14:57.610 --> 00:15:04.430 together accidentally by chance and this was amazing to me because you know I 00:15:04.430 --> 00:15:09.900 found out my child has a heart murmur totally normal but do you know the heart 00:15:09.900 --> 00:15:16.340 as soon as the child is born it has never circulated to the lungs so as soon 00:15:16.340 --> 00:15:20.920 as you pull the child out and the Biculchord is cut the lungs have to 00:15:20.920 --> 00:15:25.510 bring the oxygen into the body and it happens immediately or the child dies 00:15:25.510 --> 00:15:33.500 valves open and close in the heart forever and if it doesn't death assures 00:15:33.500 --> 00:15:37.400 how many multiple generations of randomness did it take to get that 00:15:37.400 --> 00:15:42.760 because it seems like you got to get it done the first time so literally the 00:15:42.760 --> 00:15:47.750 organ through your life changes to handle where you are but it must beat 00:15:47.750 --> 00:15:55.460 beat beat what a symbol of design you can see God even from that and let me 00:15:55.460 --> 00:15:59.170 tell you this unlike the nervous systems or the brains where they still debate 00:15:59.170 --> 00:16:05.040 and send magnets in her head the heart is a machine that we can comprehend two 00:16:05.040 --> 00:16:09.700 sides double pumping it pumps through this we can map it but let me tell you 00:16:09.700 --> 00:16:15.500 this you need an engineering blueprint on how it works it is a design it shows 00:16:15.500 --> 00:16:21.830 God and I just want to say it is amazing because this organ that center your life 00:16:21.830 --> 00:16:25.720 the thing that shows there's life before the heart forms and starts beating 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:31.610 maybe the atheist was just a compass cells maybe but once that heart beats 00:16:31.610 --> 00:16:37.220 which I believe happens prior to it even connecting to the mother I could be wrong 00:16:37.220 --> 00:16:40.800 there but it happens within 23 days of conception the heart beats and it 00:16:40.800 --> 00:16:48.670 continues until the day you die that is design it is amazing is phenomenal if 00:16:48.670 --> 00:16:54.540 you turn to Romans 1 it's a truly amazing machine and design and function 00:16:54.540 --> 00:16:59.780 that has to work perfectly for decades without a break any fix the body would 00:16:59.780 --> 00:17:03.680 have it has to do while functioning and yes because a wonderful technology we 00:17:03.680 --> 00:17:07.580 have a few ways to extend it a little bit further from our things but why 00:17:07.580 --> 00:17:11.360 because it's logical and the design the humans can study it and know how it's 00:17:11.360 --> 00:17:16.630 designed and thereby sometimes we can help in the later stages of it but let 00:17:16.630 --> 00:17:20.490 me tell you this in Romans 1 verse 20 it says for the invisible things of him 00:17:20.490 --> 00:17:26.380 from creation of the world are clearly seen can we see God in all this form in 00:17:26.380 --> 00:17:31.190 his forms no we cannot but let me tell you this if you just study many a parts 00:17:31.190 --> 00:17:35.160 of life but tonight just think of the heart that is beating within you if you 00:17:35.160 --> 00:17:40.120 cannot see the design of a creator from that if you cannot see the 00:17:40.120 --> 00:17:44.520 invisibleness that design was formed to allow you here I don't know what else 00:17:44.520 --> 00:17:47.570 could be shown to you that could ever make a difference because that single 00:17:47.570 --> 00:17:54.150 organ that must work for decades had to be designed in a way to change from your 00:17:54.150 --> 00:17:59.360 birth to your life and grow with you and stay strong until your last breath 00:17:59.360 --> 00:18:04.690 because your breath may give out before your heart does. It's truly an amazing 00:18:04.690 --> 00:18:08.350 design and here's the thing is it's clearly seen being understood by the 00:18:08.350 --> 00:18:12.320 things that are made even as eternal power and Godhead so that they are 00:18:12.320 --> 00:18:18.480 without excuse. Understand that people reject God by just rejecting the 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:23.220 mere obviousness and I will tell you this it doesn't matter like you know as 00:18:23.220 --> 00:18:27.620 you many know like I was in college I was an atheist but I was like just 00:18:27.620 --> 00:18:32.300 doing this I didn't come to Christ to this but I could easily say like there 00:18:32.300 --> 00:18:36.620 had to be a first mover there had to be a designer I don't know if he loves me 00:18:36.620 --> 00:18:41.390 but to say that you can't see that there is a designer and God is a lie or you 00:18:41.390 --> 00:18:46.170 are ignorant you may not care to see it but if you are an actually deep 00:18:46.170 --> 00:18:49.500 scientist and let me tell you this Richard Dawson and all that they just 00:18:49.500 --> 00:18:53.110 they literally write hey remember to remind people yes we see design but 00:18:53.110 --> 00:18:57.480 remember it was accidental because you can't study anything I don't care if 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:02.800 it's biologically if it's plants you know that's not biology is a study of 00:19:02.800 --> 00:19:06.440 life any of that will show but you can study stars you can study anything and 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:12.070 just go wow look at the design but tonight focus upon the heart it's 00:19:12.070 --> 00:19:17.920 amazing from birth to death how much work it has to go through and here's 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:21.590 thing turn to second Kings 9 second Kings 9 because I just want you to focus 00:19:21.590 --> 00:19:26.330 that that heartbeat is with you and let me tell you if you're mad you can't help 00:19:26.330 --> 00:19:31.030 it because it beats within your head and you know how that sounds it's powerful 00:19:31.030 --> 00:19:36.160 and you know it is there you know what anyone who's had a child I swear after 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:38.920 they're born where are they most comfortable about I think it's to hear 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:43.270 the heart because for all their existence that's what they've got to 00:19:43.270 --> 00:19:47.950 hear it's comforting and relaxing you know sometimes if you're close to 00:19:47.950 --> 00:19:53.080 someone you listen to their heart you hear their rhythm and if they can calm 00:19:53.080 --> 00:19:58.640 their heart it's coming to you it's an amazing thing that we have at the center 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:02.460 of our life and here's the thing is no one's ignorant whether you know science 00:20:02.460 --> 00:20:04.930 or not to follow this verse because it doesn't need to give you any more 00:20:04.930 --> 00:20:10.620 details and second Kings 9 verse 24 it says and Jehu drew a bow with his full 00:20:10.620 --> 00:20:16.950 strength and smote Joharam between his arms and his arrow went out at his heart 00:20:16.950 --> 00:20:22.710 and he sunk down into his chariot no one who reads that goes is he coughing 00:20:22.710 --> 00:20:27.340 because if you know your heart is pierced I don't think it takes a lot of 00:20:27.340 --> 00:20:31.810 understanding in this life unless drugs are infecting you to go he's dead if 00:20:31.810 --> 00:20:37.350 your heart is removed you die if the blood is your life and the thing that 00:20:37.350 --> 00:20:41.800 carries the blood through your body is removed it's before modern science if you 00:20:41.800 --> 00:20:47.860 your heart was nicked you were gone there was no challenge that there wasn't 00:20:47.860 --> 00:20:53.280 that and why I focus so much on this is because people literally try to say you 00:20:53.280 --> 00:20:58.040 know well I mean the Bible is outdated because it seems like they're saying you 00:20:58.040 --> 00:21:02.170 think with your heart or you do all these things with your heart well the 00:21:02.170 --> 00:21:05.600 heart I would actually state and you do not need to believe this I'm just using 00:21:05.600 --> 00:21:11.150 metaphor I believe your heart is the anchor to your flesh your spirit is 00:21:11.150 --> 00:21:16.260 anchored by your heart to this world if you don't think that's the doctorally 00:21:16.260 --> 00:21:20.630 sound that's fine because it's just a metaphor I believe your heart is the 00:21:20.630 --> 00:21:24.460 center of your flesh and I believe if we read the Bible hundreds and hundreds of 00:21:24.460 --> 00:21:28.430 times you know your passions cleaned your heart focused on keeping your heart 00:21:28.430 --> 00:21:35.950 pure it is in the fleshly sense kind of a center of who you are and I believe as 00:21:35.950 --> 00:21:39.470 a sign of life because it doesn't take too much to understand I mean even 00:21:39.470 --> 00:21:44.970 culturally even outside the Bible if someone says oh you're heartless you're 00:21:44.970 --> 00:21:48.930 not saying he's dead on the street you're saying he doesn't have like a 00:21:48.930 --> 00:21:52.850 passion he doesn't have a love he doesn't have the feeling core that makes 00:21:52.850 --> 00:21:58.470 you human and understand I believe this is the way the Bible uses it in 00:21:58.470 --> 00:22:08.220 Proverbs 23 15 it says my son if thy heart be wise my heart shall rejoice 00:22:08.220 --> 00:22:15.630 even more in Proverbs 73 verse 26 it says my flesh my heart faileth but God 00:22:15.630 --> 00:22:20.050 is strengthened of my heart and my portion forever Proverbs 13 13 it says 00:22:20.050 --> 00:22:24.390 merry heart may give the cheerful confidence but sorrow the heart the 00:22:24.390 --> 00:22:30.250 spirit is broken and in Ecclesiastes 10 verse 2 it says a wise man heart is at 00:22:30.250 --> 00:22:35.380 his right hand but a foolish heart is at his left understand this the way the 00:22:35.380 --> 00:22:40.270 Bible uses this is that your heart is essentially the center of your passions 00:22:40.270 --> 00:22:45.860 if you keep your heart sure your passions will take you forward into life 00:22:45.860 --> 00:22:50.630 in a correct way but when we say the flesh pulls us in the wrong ways it's 00:22:50.630 --> 00:22:58.980 kind of our wants it's what we want to go through but here's the thing is even 00:22:58.980 --> 00:23:03.030 studies they do studies on this and I don't know why I didn't include the 00:23:03.030 --> 00:23:05.860 sort of this but they did a study in the last three years where they took 00:23:05.860 --> 00:23:11.110 hundreds of people and they made them mad or made them watch like a love movie 00:23:11.110 --> 00:23:14.570 or something and they tried them with all these emotions and they said tell us 00:23:14.570 --> 00:23:19.720 where in the body do you feel this a weird study but here understand the 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:22.470 reason why I say this is because people literally attack the Bible saying it's 00:23:22.470 --> 00:23:28.490 inaccurate because we know all what we think comes from our brain but the Bible 00:23:28.490 --> 00:23:31.400 seems to say like your heart your heart your heart but it's interesting they do 00:23:31.400 --> 00:23:36.660 a study completely I mean this is not a you know a Bible college this was I think 00:23:36.660 --> 00:23:43.570 psychological America or one of those big national things completely you know 00:23:43.570 --> 00:23:48.140 scientific or non-religious and they pointed through the body where people 00:23:48.140 --> 00:23:51.710 feel things and it's funny not all feelings do they feel but here's the 00:23:51.710 --> 00:24:00.100 thing is anger fear happiness sadness surprise anxiety love pride shame and 00:24:00.100 --> 00:24:09.800 envy heart your brain as well but your heart literally people physically feel 00:24:09.800 --> 00:24:13.820 this and if you tell me you've ever had a passion you felt it in your if you're 00:24:13.820 --> 00:24:18.210 just angry as heck I mean now I gotta worry my hair is kind of gray when I 00:24:18.210 --> 00:24:23.300 like girls like is that a heart attack okay you know you but you feel it there 00:24:23.300 --> 00:24:30.140 and maybe not all fashions but man some of those things man when you envy maybe 00:24:30.140 --> 00:24:34.310 you even feel the stress in your heart let me tell you this is not a biblical 00:24:34.310 --> 00:24:39.530 thing this is how people experience you physically feel so I think it's very 00:24:39.530 --> 00:24:43.070 clear why the Bible hundreds and hundreds of times kind of uses your 00:24:43.070 --> 00:24:48.590 heart as a symbol of who your passions are on this flesh so I think it's key 00:24:48.590 --> 00:24:54.520 to understand that but even physically people feel it your emotions do affect 00:24:54.520 --> 00:25:01.580 you physically I think it's clear clear to understand that but yes I mean if 00:25:01.580 --> 00:25:04.940 you're happy you might even feel a lightness of your heart but if you have 00:25:04.940 --> 00:25:09.680 anxiety or anger let me tell you I know I feel it in there and man sometimes if 00:25:09.680 --> 00:25:14.690 you hear you just your heart just beats and you can't I at least get this way if 00:25:14.690 --> 00:25:21.840 I'm I can't even hear because all I hear is my heart so people saying it's 00:25:21.840 --> 00:25:27.240 foolish for the Bible to say oh it's like you're thinking from your heart most 00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:31.830 people can understand that if I called you heartless I mean you would know that 00:25:31.830 --> 00:25:36.970 people would say that why do video games use hearts as your life it's not hard 00:25:36.970 --> 00:25:40.620 well they just got that because the cultural tradition of Christianity no 00:25:40.620 --> 00:25:44.510 they didn't you can take a complete I mean I'm pretty sure Zelda came from 00:25:44.510 --> 00:25:47.770 Japan and let's just say so that's not the most Christian dominated country in 00:25:47.770 --> 00:25:54.110 the world all right saying like it's a universal understanding that the beating 00:25:54.110 --> 00:25:57.860 heart is the center of life and I just proposed you even if that doesn't sound 00:25:57.860 --> 00:26:01.870 right to you that I view it as an anchor of who you are as long as we're in this 00:26:01.870 --> 00:26:07.510 flesh because once the heart and stops you're going to one of your two homes 00:26:07.510 --> 00:26:13.120 and I think it's just interesting to understand that but like when we read in 00:26:13.120 --> 00:26:18.550 Proverbs 15 verse 13 a joyful heart maketh a cheerful condolence but a 00:26:18.550 --> 00:26:26.420 sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken so understand this why does so many 00:26:26.420 --> 00:26:31.050 times the Proverbs it's talking about the heart God wants you to have a clean 00:26:31.050 --> 00:26:37.100 heart because here's the thing is what you want what you envy for that's going 00:26:37.100 --> 00:26:41.340 to determine what you do with your life and how you react to what's happening 00:26:41.340 --> 00:26:46.650 around you and here's the thing is we all know this if you're just in a good 00:26:46.650 --> 00:26:52.970 mood because you've let go of the sorrows the pains the drama the lust of 00:26:52.970 --> 00:26:59.200 this life aren't you just in a better mood but if you just have hyper focused 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:03.900 on what you want or what you feel should happen or what you think you are wrong 00:27:03.900 --> 00:27:11.100 it literally says your spirit is broken the physical wants you want in the flesh 00:27:11.100 --> 00:27:15.880 actually takes you at the internal part of you and it causes a spiritual pain a 00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:27.270 deeper pain it's all by the way that you have focus on your heart go ahead and 00:27:27.270 --> 00:27:33.420 turn to acts 28 acts 28 because the Bible over and over again just talks 00:27:33.420 --> 00:27:39.850 about the heart and acts 28 verse 27 says for the heart of this people is 00:27:39.850 --> 00:27:45.690 waxed gross their ears are dull of hearing their eyes have they closed less 00:27:45.690 --> 00:27:50.140 they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understanding with 00:27:50.140 --> 00:27:54.530 their heart and should be converted I should have healed them isn't 00:27:54.530 --> 00:27:57.860 interesting when God is saying how dark and these people are what was the first 00:27:57.860 --> 00:28:03.100 thing that went wrong their heart taking them away and once their heart has been 00:28:03.100 --> 00:28:08.120 taken away doesn't matter their ears are deaf their eyes are blind their heart 00:28:08.120 --> 00:28:13.980 who they want their lust their wants their fleshly desires that that's what 00:28:13.980 --> 00:28:20.580 walked away first if you were following Moses in the desert you can't say their 00:28:20.580 --> 00:28:26.060 eyes seeing the tornado of fire that didn't convince them enough so then they 00:28:26.060 --> 00:28:30.140 they walked away their heart no the only way you reject the miracles that you 00:28:30.140 --> 00:28:36.130 had seen in front of you was you already had lust I mean yes a tornado of fire is 00:28:36.130 --> 00:28:39.480 amazing and defeating the greatest army the earth is great but have you ever had 00:28:39.480 --> 00:28:45.560 leaks now here's the thing is the more and more I read the Bible the more and 00:28:45.560 --> 00:28:49.640 more I come I see myself in the children of Israel that despite what miracles 00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:53.930 God has showed me that spite seeing the salvations or seeing the people possessed 00:28:53.930 --> 00:28:57.720 even out soul winning yet sometimes I still have doubts because I'm like I 00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:04.880 don't have a new Tesla and I use that except but like our hearts will pull us 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:09.110 away and they're like what am I doing because when I first got saved I looked 00:29:09.110 --> 00:29:13.770 at children like this is ridiculous no one could do that but as you mature you 00:29:13.770 --> 00:29:18.550 realize no sometimes my heart kind of goes in the wrong way like my wants take 00:29:18.550 --> 00:29:23.210 away from what my eternity should want and I believe that's the way the Bible 00:29:23.210 --> 00:29:28.310 uses the heart you pull that away because once you pull that away the facts 00:29:28.310 --> 00:29:33.570 of reality what you hear what you see that gets darker and darker till it has 00:29:33.570 --> 00:29:37.630 no effect on what you do when you move forward and I think that's why it's so 00:29:37.630 --> 00:29:42.410 clear that we want to keep our heart pure you're like well no no my heart I 00:29:42.410 --> 00:29:46.510 just know and I just my heart is always good and it just goes away and I just 00:29:46.510 --> 00:29:53.080 follow it well turn to Jeremiah 17 Jeremiah 17 because it's very very 00:29:53.080 --> 00:29:57.330 important to understand that you know what sometimes in our lives I do think we 00:29:57.330 --> 00:30:03.910 can have good wants and just we have an eternal fleshly want to go towards God 00:30:03.910 --> 00:30:09.750 hey you all decided to come here through the rain and cold and travel and amen 00:30:09.750 --> 00:30:13.770 and I hope there was a want there that means you probably had a physical want 00:30:13.770 --> 00:30:18.200 but here's the thing if we just don't ever check on what we want we can't just 00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:22.520 always follow because we have to refresh our minds with the Bible and spiritual 00:30:22.520 --> 00:30:25.760 things to know if we actually are wanting the right things because in 00:30:25.760 --> 00:30:33.380 Jeremiah 17 verse 9 it says the heart is deceitful above all things and 00:30:33.380 --> 00:30:40.270 desperately wicked who can know it I the Lord searches the heart and I try the 00:30:40.270 --> 00:30:44.770 reins even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruit 00:30:44.770 --> 00:30:49.900 of his doing it isn't as there I I remind myself of this verse all the time 00:30:49.900 --> 00:30:53.440 because what is the world's advice if you're going to school in public school 00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:57.050 I know this is the way it is I know this is the way now what are you supposed to 00:30:57.050 --> 00:31:03.650 do to have a happy life follow your heart follow your just follow what you 00:31:03.650 --> 00:31:09.440 want and we all remember if you're older than a teenager don't you remember how 00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:12.640 I mean you're as a teenager your wants are just pure and you're leaning 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:18.330 correctly in every single way that would give you success in life right and every 00:31:18.330 --> 00:31:23.540 young people like yeah once you you want you go bald and you got some gray hair 00:31:23.540 --> 00:31:28.540 you'd be like ah you know my heart had some mistakes there you know actually a 00:31:28.540 --> 00:31:31.990 lot of what I wanted especially in my youth and hey this is true throughout 00:31:31.990 --> 00:31:35.560 your life I'm not just saying well with you just come sinful wants no it's 00:31:35.560 --> 00:31:41.010 throughout all life but understand this though what you want man it's deceitful 00:31:41.010 --> 00:31:44.660 above all things do you know if you become foolish and you just justify your 00:31:44.660 --> 00:31:48.780 wants and your lust you're probably wiser than ten men that have a reason I 00:31:48.780 --> 00:31:53.020 know I just misquoted that but what I'm saying is this you will justify because 00:31:53.020 --> 00:31:57.810 you are right in your own ways so that's why you have to have the Bible and you 00:31:57.810 --> 00:32:04.230 need to listen to other people call out sin to remind you oh what I want may not 00:32:04.230 --> 00:32:09.220 be what I should want and here's the thing is that that mean well I just 00:32:09.220 --> 00:32:14.980 don't want it anymore hey honestly no the heart is deceitful and sometimes we 00:32:14.980 --> 00:32:18.990 like to judge and not sometimes pretty much whatever we want even if it's 00:32:18.990 --> 00:32:24.450 ridiculous sometimes we can be like well you know because of this and that you know 00:32:24.450 --> 00:32:30.070 I mean I might go homeless but man a new Tesla sounds nice I mean that probably 00:32:30.070 --> 00:32:34.370 helped me get a better job right and that way it would do us a work out. Now 00:32:34.370 --> 00:32:40.930 wanting and then here's thing just understand this and why I call this out 00:32:40.930 --> 00:32:47.620 is because the world says one thing and the Bible literally says a different why 00:32:47.620 --> 00:32:52.520 is this in Proverbs 4 Proverbs 4 in verse 23 it says keep thy heart with all 00:32:52.520 --> 00:32:58.090 diligence for out of it are the issues of life and I want to read that one more 00:32:58.090 --> 00:33:02.150 time so even if you're zone out follow this is kind of the key verse of the 00:33:02.150 --> 00:33:08.550 whole sermon keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues 00:33:08.550 --> 00:33:14.610 of life so understand this your heart is deceitful but understand what you want 00:33:14.610 --> 00:33:17.760 and what your passions are what is your fleshly do you know that's going to 00:33:17.760 --> 00:33:21.990 drive you one way or the other it's going to drive you and I love this verse 00:33:21.990 --> 00:33:27.710 when I read this and focus I was like this is the truth for out of it are the 00:33:27.710 --> 00:33:31.290 issues of life and why I want you to focus on this if God says keep your 00:33:31.290 --> 00:33:36.070 heart pure keep that heart with all diligence because if you manage what you 00:33:36.070 --> 00:33:38.920 want and what you drive that's what you're going to drive you forward let me 00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:44.540 tell you this why it says issues of life you got you're going to have issues hey 00:33:44.540 --> 00:33:48.850 you can have issues like oh my goodness how do I not get caught with a thing I 00:33:48.850 --> 00:33:55.270 stole or oh man I hope I get to church on time these are issues you get to 00:33:55.270 --> 00:33:57.970 choose what type of issues you deal with in your life because understand you're 00:33:57.970 --> 00:34:03.420 not going to have not issues I mean it could be like gosh 10 chapters a day and 00:34:03.420 --> 00:34:05.620 you're anywhere like how are we going to get through the whole no testament it's 00:34:05.620 --> 00:34:11.260 so much work and how do I keep up with it I got things to do or be like I got 00:34:11.260 --> 00:34:16.380 caught how do I stay out of jail you're going to have issues in life what a 00:34:16.380 --> 00:34:20.450 beautiful verse how you change your life and how you put the wants in your life 00:34:20.450 --> 00:34:24.570 drives what issues you're going to have let me tell you this Christians I want 00:34:24.570 --> 00:34:28.510 you to have issues that God is going to be okay with you having because let me 00:34:28.510 --> 00:34:31.870 tell you this you're not going to not have issues this is not a health 00:34:31.870 --> 00:34:35.610 welfare and wealth whatever prosperity gospel like well if you have problems 00:34:35.610 --> 00:34:38.310 you're not right with God I want to promise you you're gonna have problems 00:34:38.310 --> 00:34:42.370 and you're gonna have wants and you're gonna have eggs of the heart but I hope 00:34:42.370 --> 00:34:45.670 your eggs of the heart is I hope my potluck thing is so good that everyone 00:34:45.670 --> 00:34:49.660 likes and not oh my gosh I'm going homeless because I cheated and my spouse 00:34:49.660 --> 00:34:54.840 kicked me out you're going to have issues and the most of it is going to be 00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:59.170 driven by what you design your heart to want and where you're going to go and 00:34:59.170 --> 00:35:02.980 that's why I think it's such a beautiful verse the Lord tells you keep thy heart 00:35:02.980 --> 00:35:07.730 with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life because I that's just the 00:35:07.730 --> 00:35:11.410 way until I saw what a beautiful way to tell you you're going to have problems 00:35:11.410 --> 00:35:17.800 drive your life so the problems you have God will be like you'll be okay don't 00:35:17.800 --> 00:35:23.130 have problems where God's like maybe you need more all right and that's the 00:35:23.130 --> 00:35:28.170 thing over and over it the Bible keeps telling you your heart is what you need 00:35:28.170 --> 00:35:33.220 to control and the way I would manifest this is this you have the new man the 00:35:33.220 --> 00:35:37.860 spiritual within you and you have the old man the fleshly and as I said 00:35:37.860 --> 00:35:42.060 because the heart is what anchors you to this I think that's a symbol of the 00:35:42.060 --> 00:35:44.880 flesh but understand this if you're going to accomplish anything for the 00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:50.960 spirit what are you going to do it through your flesh so your mind I think 00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:56.870 kind of mediates between these two you can affect your heart and what you want 00:35:56.870 --> 00:36:01.300 now your heart will always kind of bring other things that are like you know we 00:36:01.300 --> 00:36:05.060 are we have the old man and Paul even writes what I would I wouldn't and but 00:36:05.060 --> 00:36:09.410 what I wouldn't do I do like we have this battle going on constantly but they 00:36:09.410 --> 00:36:12.740 understand this you have to renew your mind and refocus what you want and 00:36:12.740 --> 00:36:16.470 understand you'll probably always have things that pull you aside that are not 00:36:16.470 --> 00:36:22.220 right with God and you have to say no but what drives you in your life you get 00:36:22.220 --> 00:36:28.850 to choose and you can help change your heart maybe it's grief maybe it's 00:36:28.850 --> 00:36:31.930 forgiveness that you need to force through yourself that your heart your 00:36:31.930 --> 00:36:35.850 the physical stars that you've had in your life you can let go and move 00:36:35.850 --> 00:36:43.780 forward and have different issues it's whether it's addiction suffering you 00:36:43.780 --> 00:36:51.460 know wants lust greed pride we have a lot of things that will pull us away but 00:36:51.460 --> 00:36:54.830 there's a big difference if we take the issues of our life and we turn it 00:36:54.830 --> 00:36:58.320 towards God you're like well I'm just gonna have more verses memorized than 00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:03.440 anyone then it's I'm just gonna be more wealthy than anyone at my job these are 00:37:03.440 --> 00:37:06.930 issues and your wants will drive how you act your life and where you go in the 00:37:06.930 --> 00:37:10.490 rest of your life and understand this is the passions that you have and I believe 00:37:10.490 --> 00:37:15.240 if you turn your heart to the good things and you turn your heart away from 00:37:15.240 --> 00:37:19.690 the things God says don't that's what God says is to keep your heart more 00:37:19.690 --> 00:37:24.650 diligently because understand this when we have lows and we have problems and 00:37:24.650 --> 00:37:28.720 we have times in our life when we turn away from God understand where are we 00:37:28.720 --> 00:37:35.840 turning our heart to maybe it's to our own prides maybe it's to our own wants 00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:41.530 maybe it's to what makes me you know it's just about me me me and not about 00:37:41.530 --> 00:37:47.840 others understand you get to choose and you always have a drag there but you can 00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:53.730 force your heart to know what you should be doing what you should be driving to 00:37:53.730 --> 00:37:57.890 and what you shouldn't want and as I say that doesn't mean that want goes away 00:37:57.890 --> 00:38:03.610 but you keep your heart with all diligence is what God asks you to do in 00:38:03.610 --> 00:38:08.750 Luke 12 and verse 45 it says but and if the servants say in his heart my Lord 00:38:08.750 --> 00:38:13.810 delayeth in his coming and shout and he shall begin to beat the maid men 00:38:13.810 --> 00:38:19.730 servants and maidens so understand this just a quick little verse and I know I'm 00:38:19.730 --> 00:38:22.410 pulling a lot of these out to just show you the heart there's a lot of stories 00:38:22.410 --> 00:38:25.950 in between this but I just want to focus on the heart because this person's like 00:38:25.950 --> 00:38:33.670 my master's not coming soon I can do whatever I want and maybe you all 00:38:33.670 --> 00:38:38.950 remember and I don't know I got left at home a lot and I was like it's gonna be 00:38:38.950 --> 00:38:42.190 a while since I bet I can do with you know this or that because I won't get 00:38:42.190 --> 00:38:46.810 caught and the Bible even says you know people are like oh the Lord delayeth I 00:38:46.810 --> 00:38:52.790 won't be prepared maybe maybe I won't bring extra oil and what happens is 00:38:52.790 --> 00:38:57.080 because you don't think it's happening and there's a whole story here but the 00:38:57.080 --> 00:39:01.690 Lord comes to take up you know the bridesmaid to the wedding and half of 00:39:01.690 --> 00:39:07.330 them can't come because they're not ready but understand what starts what 00:39:07.330 --> 00:39:11.400 I'm trying to emphasize here is why did this servant decide he can just beat all 00:39:11.400 --> 00:39:16.240 the other servants because there's no one there to watch his heart's like I 00:39:16.240 --> 00:39:20.940 can get away with this and what I want to emphasize with that in the story of 00:39:20.940 --> 00:39:26.910 the maidens with their lamp oil who didn't bring enough what happens first 00:39:26.910 --> 00:39:31.190 is you decide I can get away with it and that's what sets the actions you take 00:39:31.190 --> 00:39:35.670 and I think it's very clear to understand if your heart is pure and 00:39:35.670 --> 00:39:39.960 you are diligent with it your decisions will lead to your future actions and 00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:46.470 this is why you choose the issues of your life if you decided well I'll take 00:39:46.470 --> 00:39:50.550 a little bit more time getting ready so that way if they they're late I'll be 00:39:50.550 --> 00:39:57.160 ready to go and they go time for that they show up on timers heck with them 00:39:57.160 --> 00:40:03.910 well your future is going to be dictated by how you feel now so you need to check 00:40:03.910 --> 00:40:09.470 on how you feel now and understand in a harsh situation if you think you can get 00:40:09.470 --> 00:40:15.050 away with it understand that's all crimes or mishaps or 00:40:15.050 --> 00:40:17.920 wickedness that we do to each other because most people aren't going to be 00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:24.040 like I'm gonna get caught that's not Jim no there are certain people you know 00:40:24.040 --> 00:40:30.480 anyway usually cheating spouses don't mind dumping you know paint on your car 00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:35.480 and writing you know cheater on it they're okay getting caught but I'm 00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:42.190 saying is most you know crimes or hardships or damage to other people 00:40:42.190 --> 00:40:46.100 people don't want to get caught like that's part of the game that drives 00:40:46.100 --> 00:40:50.200 them they think in their heart I'm smarter I'm faster I'm better than this 00:40:50.200 --> 00:40:56.050 other person and that leads to what they do and most people hopefully Christian 00:40:56.050 --> 00:40:59.420 if you're safe you go well God would know that I'm doing that that should 00:40:59.420 --> 00:41:02.630 change your heart and a lot of things you'd want to do because God already 00:41:02.630 --> 00:41:07.410 searches your heart isn't it interesting that he says hey I searches the heart in 00:41:07.410 --> 00:41:12.290 the reins I already searched I already know what you want and isn't like that 00:41:12.290 --> 00:41:17.250 should terrify us like a lot of times I think I keep my actual actions in check 00:41:17.250 --> 00:41:20.640 but then when I think some of the things that I hope none of you are you know 00:41:20.640 --> 00:41:24.910 telepathic because that'd be scary like that'd be that that's the most 00:41:24.910 --> 00:41:28.060 terrifying thing ever someone heard internal thoughts I think and I think for 00:41:28.060 --> 00:41:31.750 most people it's just not me no one wants to know what other people truly 00:41:31.750 --> 00:41:36.020 think all right and what's terrifying enough that God already searches our 00:41:36.020 --> 00:41:40.280 heart and reigns frankly if we meditate on that I think we would get our heart 00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:51.510 right a lot more regularly in Psalms 11 Psalms 11 verse 2 Psalms 11 verse 2 it 00:41:51.510 --> 00:41:56.790 says for lo the wicked bend their bow and make ready their arrows upon the 00:41:56.790 --> 00:42:03.680 string that they may privilege shoot at the up right and heart understand this 00:42:03.680 --> 00:42:07.130 why I think sometimes you see like as you're cleaning up your life and you're 00:42:07.130 --> 00:42:11.980 getting more pure and you're working for God why do you get more attacks because 00:42:11.980 --> 00:42:16.960 your salvation can't be taken away from you but why you get attacked more is 00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:21.120 right here if you're right in your heart and you want to drive to do more what's 00:42:21.120 --> 00:42:27.190 up like if there's 50 Christians out there them aren't doing anything half of 00:42:27.190 --> 00:42:30.100 them don't have their heart right and only a few do who are you going to go 00:42:30.100 --> 00:42:34.670 after the upright in the heart because you can get that heart turd you're not 00:42:34.670 --> 00:42:38.820 taking them you can't get you to hell but I can stop you from working for God 00:42:38.820 --> 00:42:44.370 so how powerful is this God says over and over again the pure in the heart the 00:42:44.370 --> 00:42:47.630 blessing keep your heart in all diligence and it even says the wicked 00:42:47.630 --> 00:42:51.170 bend their bows to try to get the upright in heart and let me tell you 00:42:51.170 --> 00:42:54.030 Christian this spiritual fight if nothing else if you can get the 00:42:54.030 --> 00:42:59.460 attention of the wicked you're being shown that you're doing something right 00:42:59.460 --> 00:43:05.130 keeping your heart right is a center point of how God says you build a 00:43:05.130 --> 00:43:11.340 Christian life in Matthew 5 8 Matthew 5 8 says blessed are the pure in heart for 00:43:11.340 --> 00:43:17.770 they shall see God blessed are the pure of the heart what a wonderful thing and 00:43:17.770 --> 00:43:21.770 I think even in our lives if we just keep our hearts right we can see our 00:43:21.770 --> 00:43:26.500 lives improve with time we all fall we all have problems we all have 00:43:26.500 --> 00:43:32.040 difficulties but a pure heart man now clear our conscience and we all know 00:43:32.040 --> 00:43:36.390 despite what's happening to us because it's been said hey 20% of your life is 00:43:36.390 --> 00:43:40.310 what happens to you 80% is how you deal with it let me tell you if you have a 00:43:40.310 --> 00:43:45.450 good heart you can see people go through a lot more than other people and they 00:43:45.450 --> 00:43:51.850 can just still be a blessing to others well some people man they have a you know 00:43:51.850 --> 00:43:57.520 a mishap a trouble in their life and they're just they're down and out and 00:43:57.520 --> 00:44:00.820 I'm not against you if that's you but understand a lot of the problems of how 00:44:00.820 --> 00:44:05.380 we can't keep us going is who we are on the inside we may get the outside good 00:44:05.380 --> 00:44:09.070 we might be doing living life the way we should we may be doing the things we 00:44:09.070 --> 00:44:16.430 write but internally the heart darkens before the rest of you falls I believe 00:44:16.430 --> 00:44:24.590 that's how the Bible shows the heart in first John 3 1st John 3 1st John 3 in 00:44:24.590 --> 00:44:30.380 verse 18 it says my little children let us not love in word neither in tongue 00:44:30.380 --> 00:44:36.590 but indeed and in truth and hereby we know that we are of truth and shall 00:44:36.590 --> 00:44:42.150 assure our hearts before him for if our hearts condemn us God is greater than 00:44:42.150 --> 00:44:47.720 our hearts and knoweth all things beloved if our hearts condemn us not then 00:44:47.720 --> 00:44:53.080 we have confidence towards God and whosoever we ask we rejoice in him 00:44:53.080 --> 00:44:58.900 because we keep his commandments and do those things which please pleasing in 00:44:58.900 --> 00:45:06.910 his sight understand this it's hard to be a follower God if your own heart is 00:45:06.910 --> 00:45:14.260 condemning you but here's the things at times but we're all sinners our heart 00:45:14.260 --> 00:45:18.150 will even check us our heart might not be the one leading us away our hearts 00:45:18.150 --> 00:45:25.280 like you hypocrite what are you doing what's beautiful that God even knows 00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:28.890 because here's the thing is God knows we're sinners God knows we're not always 00:45:28.890 --> 00:45:34.480 gonna do right and it literally says here even if our heart condemns us 00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:43.460 understand God has confidence towards us and I think that's so reassuring God is 00:45:43.460 --> 00:45:48.000 greater than our hearts so even at times when it's just because our heart is 00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:51.470 deceitful of all things and sometimes I swear we have that part of us that just 00:45:51.470 --> 00:45:56.540 wants to tear itself down but God is greater than our hearts and he will 00:45:56.540 --> 00:46:01.630 carry us through so even at times when we're not perfect and upright in our 00:46:01.630 --> 00:46:05.480 selves understand that God is greater than all of that and don't lose ourselves 00:46:05.480 --> 00:46:09.520 and don't fall away and don't run away just because you aren't right just get 00:46:09.520 --> 00:46:13.940 right just get right without losing yourself without falling condemning just 00:46:13.940 --> 00:46:16.980 understand Lord I could be better tomorrow I can move forward and 00:46:16.980 --> 00:46:23.510 sometimes it is crazy but I believe this is what this verse is kind of saying hey 00:46:23.510 --> 00:46:26.370 we should ask forgiveness of God but you know what sometimes you need to ask 00:46:26.370 --> 00:46:30.160 forgiveness of yourself and I I'm not trying to sound prideful but sometimes to 00:46:30.160 --> 00:46:36.560 ourselves we tear ourselves down that is where our heart just really aches we're 00:46:36.560 --> 00:46:40.000 tearing ourselves apart it's like an internal battle and sometimes you have 00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:44.200 to ask forgiveness for the wrongs you did to yourself and I hope that I hope 00:46:44.200 --> 00:46:47.250 you're understanding me it's not to take away power of God but God legit says 00:46:47.250 --> 00:46:50.660 he's greater than your heart so I think at times he understands we have these 00:46:50.660 --> 00:46:56.030 internal troubles and he wants you to say God's greater than him get over your 00:46:56.030 --> 00:47:04.160 own conflicts and just move forward that can heal your heart and James 1 26 00:47:04.160 --> 00:47:08.480 James 26 it says if any man among you seems to be religious and brow not his 00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:15.420 tongue but deceive us his own heart that man's religion is vain hey understand 00:47:15.420 --> 00:47:20.840 this it's been said you know walk the walk talk the talk and if you're not 00:47:20.840 --> 00:47:24.650 you're being a hypocrite and it literally says you're deceiving your own 00:47:24.650 --> 00:47:28.720 heart you're trying to act in a way that you know isn't true but your heart 00:47:28.720 --> 00:47:34.480 already knows that if you want something that'll just eat away at you eternally 00:47:34.480 --> 00:47:38.450 wow how does this person man I mean he was just doing everything he looks 00:47:38.450 --> 00:47:44.560 strong as can be and all then he walked away what happened his heart walked away 00:47:44.560 --> 00:47:49.510 first and maybe out of habit maybe out of pride to not see other people there 00:47:49.510 --> 00:47:54.530 but his heart had walked away and as your eternal part of you kind of crumbles 00:47:54.530 --> 00:48:00.520 like a wall eventually it'll get to the outside and then it'll just manifest keep 00:48:00.520 --> 00:48:11.190 your heart pure keep it strong for God Ezekiel 36 and 20 Ezekiel 36 26 it says 00:48:11.190 --> 00:48:16.580 a new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I 00:48:16.580 --> 00:48:20.480 will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you a heart 00:48:20.480 --> 00:48:24.500 of flesh and whether you see this as the new man old man or it's just this 00:48:24.500 --> 00:48:27.800 sometimes you've been a Christian for so long you've just done everything and 00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:32.410 things just don't seem alive anymore many times you will say you know the 00:48:32.410 --> 00:49:08.010 Bible says you've hardened your heart. Do you know God can make it soft again, make it fleshy? And they're like, well, is it saying it's a physical stone? No, this is all metaphorical. But you know, at times, like, how many people talk at the door, and no matter what verse, fact, reason, metaphor, they're not changing. That heart is stone. You know what God wants you? He wants you to be engaged with life that things do affect you. He wants you to feel, he wants you to be able to sense. 00:49:08.050 --> 00:49:21.250 And he even says here, a new heart will I give you, a new spirit, because hey, let me tell you, sometimes the spirit feels like it's not alive, and I know I'm not talking about Pentecostal, you know, oh, you got to feel it. 00:49:21.250 --> 00:49:41.320 You can feel at times when you're just numb. It happens, whether through tiredness, physical, spiritual, things you're going through, sometimes you just feel numb, but understand this, God can put a new spirit within you, and he can turn your hard rock heart fleshly again, so you can feel again. 00:49:41.320 --> 00:49:50.940 You can have that humanness, because hey, everyone knows if I called you heartless, you're missing like that humanness about you that people kind of expect and want, 00:49:50.940 --> 00:50:02.780 and it's off-putting if you don't have that, unless you're in the military, and then it's weird if you actually feel like a human, but I'm just saying people can see it. 00:50:02.780 --> 00:50:31.860 Hebrews 3 and Hebrews 3 and verse 7 says, "Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith, today, if he will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation, in the wilderness, when your fathers tempted me, proved me and saw my works forty years, wherefore I was grieved with the generation said, they do always err in their hearts, and they have not known my ways, so I swear in my wrath, they shall not enter another." 00:50:31.860 --> 00:50:34.090 "They shall not enter into my rest. 00:50:34.090 --> 00:50:40.560 Take heed, brethren, lest there be any of you, an evil heart of unbelief, and departing 00:50:40.560 --> 00:50:46.480 from the living God, but exhort one another daily, while on call today, lest any of you 00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:50.230 be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." 00:50:50.230 --> 00:50:55.200 And here it is, God kind of says, or the Bible says, kind of what I've emphasized before, 00:50:55.200 --> 00:50:59.470 understand your heart will walk away before you do. 00:50:59.470 --> 00:51:05.560 Your heart leads you, your wants lead you, and he even uses the example of, I mean, God, 00:51:05.560 --> 00:51:09.580 like, man, he made them walk 40 years until the generation was gone. 00:51:09.580 --> 00:51:11.430 He said, their hearts walked away. 00:51:11.430 --> 00:51:14.280 How many more miracles can I do in front of you? 00:51:14.280 --> 00:51:15.260 The Jews seek a sign. 00:51:15.260 --> 00:51:19.720 Well, that didn't help them very much because he couldn't give any more signs. 00:51:19.720 --> 00:51:24.990 It's strange that after 40 years in the wilderness, the pagans are like, oh, those are the people 00:51:24.990 --> 00:51:26.940 of the God that did that to Egypt. 00:51:26.940 --> 00:51:27.850 Why did they get it? 00:51:27.850 --> 00:51:31.560 They're like, whoa, they saw the signs. 00:51:31.560 --> 00:51:34.880 But if your heart is stony, nothing will change your mind. 00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:39.300 That's why they say daily exhort one another, brethren, help them keep their hearts pure. 00:51:39.300 --> 00:51:45.950 It's great to keep our own hearts pure, but hey, keep the brethren's heart and faith strong. 00:51:45.950 --> 00:51:47.960 Support one another. 00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:56.530 This is how we help as a church to keep the heart of this church towards God. 00:51:56.530 --> 00:52:00.250 Because here's the thing is we all are sinners and we will all be pulled away at times at 00:52:00.250 --> 00:52:01.240 sin. 00:52:01.240 --> 00:52:02.230 But can we correct that? 00:52:02.230 --> 00:52:07.450 We help each other stay from sin to keep our hearts pure. 00:52:07.450 --> 00:52:11.440 Proverbs 21, Proverbs 21 verse 1, it says, "The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord 00:52:11.440 --> 00:52:14.720 as the river of water he turneth wherever he will. 00:52:14.720 --> 00:52:19.250 Every way of man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord pondered the heart. 00:52:19.250 --> 00:52:23.750 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice." 00:52:23.750 --> 00:52:26.010 Understand this. 00:52:26.010 --> 00:52:27.000 Every way you want. 00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:32.620 And as I was saying, the heart will lead you astray and boy, it's right in our mind. 00:52:32.620 --> 00:52:35.350 If I want it, it must be right because I want it. 00:52:35.350 --> 00:52:37.910 And let me tell you, as a Christian, that's like, that doesn't sound right, but let me 00:52:37.910 --> 00:52:41.440 tell you, you ask the world, what more justification could they possibly? 00:52:41.440 --> 00:52:46.640 There's not a higher power in people outside of church than themselves. 00:52:46.640 --> 00:52:50.090 And understand that's the problem with the world itself. 00:52:50.090 --> 00:52:53.170 They don't judge themselves, so how could they judge others? 00:52:53.170 --> 00:52:56.470 If they don't limit themselves, and that is what this is saying. 00:52:56.470 --> 00:53:02.110 It literally tells them that every way a man is right in his own eyes. 00:53:02.110 --> 00:53:03.370 That's why people do it. 00:53:03.370 --> 00:53:08.550 Most people don't go, "Well, this is going to be wrong," and go do it, unless they're 00:53:08.550 --> 00:53:11.280 being ordered by their boss to go do it. 00:53:11.280 --> 00:53:15.410 But I'm just saying, in your own mind, what you do and how you justify it from your heart 00:53:15.410 --> 00:53:17.190 is what you need to do in your life. 00:53:17.190 --> 00:53:23.620 And God just says, "Don't," and I've always loved this verse, "To do justice and judgment 00:53:23.620 --> 00:53:25.940 is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice." 00:53:25.940 --> 00:53:28.360 He wants you to judge correctly. 00:53:28.360 --> 00:53:33.050 He wants you to bring justice to the world by his word, and that is better than the sacrifices 00:53:33.050 --> 00:53:34.940 that he won in the Old Testament. 00:53:34.940 --> 00:53:38.630 And understand, this is an Old Testament saying. 00:53:38.630 --> 00:53:40.170 This isn't a New Testament thing. 00:53:40.170 --> 00:53:46.700 In the Old Testament, he wanted you to do what was right above just doing the symbolic 00:53:46.700 --> 00:53:49.380 sacrifices that were just pictured into Christ anyway. 00:53:49.380 --> 00:53:51.480 They weren't cleansing you. 00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:52.470 It was the service of God. 00:53:52.470 --> 00:53:54.160 He asked you to do it, and that's great if you did it. 00:53:54.160 --> 00:54:01.070 But if you weren't doing the justice and judgment of God, it was revain. 00:54:01.070 --> 00:54:04.740 Where is your heart when you do things? 00:54:04.740 --> 00:54:05.670 That is what he's asking. 00:54:05.670 --> 00:54:15.130 In 1 Samuel 13, verse 13 it says, "And Samuel said unto Saul, Thou hast done foolishly. 00:54:15.130 --> 00:54:19.050 Thou hast not kept the commandments of the Lord thy God, which commanded thee. 00:54:19.050 --> 00:54:24.190 For now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel forever, but now thy kingdom 00:54:24.190 --> 00:54:25.710 shall not continue. 00:54:25.710 --> 00:54:31.210 The Lord has sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to 00:54:31.210 --> 00:54:36.390 be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept which the Lord commanded thee." 00:54:36.390 --> 00:54:42.380 And this is the great punishment given to Saul, that Saul didn't keep his heart after 00:54:42.380 --> 00:54:44.490 God. 00:54:44.490 --> 00:54:51.260 So God had selected a shepherd boy in the field that his father would even bring to 00:54:51.260 --> 00:54:52.820 be chosen. 00:54:52.820 --> 00:54:54.220 He said, "You know what? 00:54:54.220 --> 00:54:57.480 That kid in the field I've already selected to be king after you." 00:54:57.480 --> 00:54:59.680 Well, what's the sign that he had faith? 00:54:59.680 --> 00:55:03.210 He showed up to a battle he's not even supposed to be at and took on the greatest challenger 00:55:03.210 --> 00:55:04.630 to Israel. 00:55:04.630 --> 00:55:06.010 That's faith. 00:55:06.010 --> 00:55:07.190 His heart was right. 00:55:07.190 --> 00:55:10.490 His heart was right with God before he ever went to the battle. 00:55:10.490 --> 00:55:13.230 And that's why he, before everyone else, could go. 00:55:13.230 --> 00:55:15.410 We know the story, but understand this. 00:55:15.410 --> 00:55:20.130 God literally says he took an entire kingdom who he said he would make an eternal line 00:55:20.130 --> 00:55:26.190 after Saul, but because he did not keep his heart right, he gave it to someone else that 00:55:26.190 --> 00:55:29.080 would. 00:55:29.080 --> 00:55:31.120 Don't tell me keeping your heart right isn't centered. 00:55:31.120 --> 00:55:33.590 This is literally how God says he judges us. 00:55:33.590 --> 00:55:38.330 He searches our own hearts and he searched after those that would keep his heart right 00:55:38.330 --> 00:55:40.780 with us. 00:55:40.780 --> 00:55:44.810 In Ezekiel 26 in verse 4 it says, "With thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou has 00:55:44.810 --> 00:55:49.110 gotten thee riches and hath gotten gold and silver into thy treasury. 00:55:49.110 --> 00:55:54.770 By thy wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased the riches, and thy heart is lifted 00:55:54.770 --> 00:55:56.440 up because of thy riches. 00:55:56.440 --> 00:56:02.140 Therefore thus said the Lord God, because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God, 00:56:02.140 --> 00:56:08.420 behold therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations, and shall 00:56:08.420 --> 00:56:13.790 draw thy sword against thee, the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness, 00:56:13.790 --> 00:56:18.630 and they shall bring thee down into a pit, and thou shalt die the death of them that 00:56:18.630 --> 00:56:26.760 are slain in the midst wilt thou say before him, that slay thee, I am God, but thou shalt 00:56:26.760 --> 00:56:32.640 be a man, and no God, and thy hand of him that slayeth thee. 00:56:32.640 --> 00:56:37.240 Heart the heart the heart, and understand how different are these two rulers between 00:56:37.240 --> 00:56:46.260 who David was, who God saw that he would be, to this one who says, "Dude, I'm rich. 00:56:46.260 --> 00:56:48.090 Have you seen the gold? 00:56:48.090 --> 00:56:54.120 I'm rich, I'm the wisest man that's ever been, nobody knows more about nuclear than 00:56:54.120 --> 00:56:56.210 me." 00:56:56.210 --> 00:57:01.000 I mean, this guy says, basically, he even says, "Would you tell people I have the heart 00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:02.360 of God?" 00:57:02.360 --> 00:57:06.050 I mean, he literally says, "Would you look at the person that's slaying you and say, 00:57:06.050 --> 00:57:08.190 I am God?" 00:57:08.190 --> 00:57:13.550 Think of where that heart is. That heart is as far away from what God would want than 00:57:13.550 --> 00:57:14.530 anything. 00:57:14.530 --> 00:57:18.210 And he literally says, "All your strength and all your wealth, I'm going to bring the 00:57:18.210 --> 00:57:25.080 terror of the nations upon you and destroy everything you have, and they will slay you." 00:57:25.080 --> 00:57:28.820 It's all about their heart and where it was. 00:57:28.820 --> 00:57:33.700 Because let me tell you this, if you get to the point where you're like, "I am God," 00:57:33.700 --> 00:57:39.820 if you get Alpha and Omega tattooed under your eyes, you know the heart went away long 00:57:39.820 --> 00:57:40.790 before anything else. 00:57:40.790 --> 00:57:45.580 Because if you go that far, I actually think it's your wants and your passions that would 00:57:45.580 --> 00:57:47.040 lead your mind there. 00:57:47.040 --> 00:57:50.030 I don't think your mind goes first, it's your lust and wants that go first. 00:57:50.030 --> 00:57:52.870 If you don't agree with that, that's fine, but I'm just saying I think that's the way 00:57:52.870 --> 00:57:54.460 the Bible kind of explains. 00:57:54.460 --> 00:58:00.200 Our wants drive to where our mind will go, and that's why it's saying your mind can 00:58:00.200 --> 00:58:03.500 tailor what your driving wants and your hearts are. 00:58:03.500 --> 00:58:06.810 Keep your heart pure and you'll decide the issues of your life. 00:58:06.810 --> 00:58:11.030 Let me tell you this, you go that far out, your issues in life are going to be way worse 00:58:11.030 --> 00:58:16.370 than if you try to keep your issues what God says within His commandments. 00:58:16.370 --> 00:58:22.830 In Proverbs 23 and verse 15 it says, "My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, 00:58:22.830 --> 00:58:25.550 even mine." 00:58:25.550 --> 00:58:30.540 In John 14, 1 it says, "Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in God, believe in 00:58:30.540 --> 00:58:32.510 me also." 00:58:32.510 --> 00:58:38.160 And like I said, there are hundreds upon hundreds of verses where it's talking about the heart 00:58:38.160 --> 00:58:39.940 of man. 00:58:39.940 --> 00:58:41.660 The heart is what leads us. 00:58:41.660 --> 00:58:43.260 It's what decides where we go. 00:58:43.260 --> 00:58:49.370 And here's the thing is, as a parent, the one thing we'd want is to set our children 00:58:49.370 --> 00:58:52.150 away with a correct heart. 00:58:52.150 --> 00:58:57.670 Because if what they want is taking them in the right way, I mean, that's leading them 00:58:57.670 --> 00:58:58.880 into the way they want. 00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:02.520 Because what you want is what will drive all your actions, how you tailor your life, how 00:59:02.520 --> 00:59:07.700 you organize what you do, goes towards what you want. 00:59:07.700 --> 00:59:25.650 Getting your heart right and setting it on the right course is what we want to see happen. 00:59:25.650 --> 00:59:29.490 So that's the whole term I have for you. 00:59:29.490 --> 00:59:34.390 It's this, your heart is the center of your life. 00:59:34.390 --> 00:59:38.910 From before you even knew you were alive, your heart was beating. 00:59:38.910 --> 00:59:44.370 Until the end, when your heart beats at last, you are here in this world. 00:59:44.370 --> 00:59:47.660 Your flesh will always pull you in ways. 00:59:47.660 --> 00:59:52.570 God wants you to try to tailor what you want and make your heart want what he wants. 00:59:52.570 --> 01:00:01.280 And if we have a right heart with God, then the issues of our life will be in God's service. 01:00:01.280 --> 01:00:03.760 You can't get out of problems in this life. 01:00:03.760 --> 01:00:06.990 You will have issues. 01:00:06.990 --> 01:00:12.320 Have your heart right with God and have issues that he would want to see in your life. 01:00:12.320 --> 01:00:14.150 That's how God wants you to attack. 01:00:14.150 --> 01:00:17.140 That's what he wants you to choose because hey, we're not Calvinists here. 01:00:17.140 --> 01:00:18.960 We're not reformed. 01:00:18.960 --> 01:00:22.170 You choose what happens in your life. 01:00:22.170 --> 01:00:24.450 God asks you to purify your heart. 01:00:24.450 --> 01:00:26.600 He's not saying I will purify your heart. 01:00:26.600 --> 01:00:28.220 He wants you to keep your heart right. 01:00:28.220 --> 01:00:29.530 He'll give you a new heart. 01:00:29.530 --> 01:00:34.300 He'll give you a new spirit, but your spirit and flesh will conflict battle. 01:00:34.300 --> 01:00:38.760 I think the heart is an excellent symbol of our flesh because guess what? 01:00:38.760 --> 01:00:42.600 You can help tailor your heart and what he wants, and if you get any work done for the 01:00:42.600 --> 01:00:46.350 spirit in this world, you're going to work through your flesh. 01:00:46.350 --> 01:00:48.170 Get your flesh in the right order. 01:00:48.170 --> 01:00:49.720 Now it will be better in your life. 01:00:49.720 --> 01:00:53.160 And yes, our heart is the center of who we are. 01:00:53.160 --> 01:00:56.780 Get it right and have it choose the issues that you will have moving forward. 01:00:56.780 --> 01:00:57.780 With that, let's pray. 01:00:57.780 --> 01:00:58.780 Heavenly Father, thank you so much today. 01:00:58.780 --> 01:01:00.370 Thank you for allowing me to preach this sermon. 01:01:00.370 --> 01:01:01.610 I hope it was edifying. 01:01:01.610 --> 01:01:02.600 I hope it found meaning. 01:01:02.600 --> 01:01:07.110 I hope the symbolism truly hits you, Lord, because over and over again, use the heart 01:01:07.110 --> 01:01:12.050 as certainly what we need to tailor and focus on to get our lives right for you. 01:01:12.050 --> 01:01:15.340 Lord, thank you for every beat that I have left in this world. 01:01:15.340 --> 01:01:16.890 I hope most of them I give to you. 01:01:16.890 --> 01:01:17.890 In Jesus' name, amen. 01:01:17.890 --> 01:01:35.900 We're going to turn to page number 140. 01:01:35.900 --> 01:01:36.870 Page number 140. 01:01:36.870 --> 01:01:37.850 We have an anchor. 01:01:37.850 --> 01:03:45.770 Would you please close us a word of prayer?