Today we will have a medical examination of our hearts; let us examine our hearts in the light of the scriptures.
For the Lord does not see how he sees man; man sees the outside, but the Lord sees the heart. First book by Samuel 16. 7b
- God created you and me to walk with him.
- Rejoicing in him.
- But He doesn’t want us to be with him anyway.
- He wants you to love him.
- And that’s not a way to love him.
- To love according to God’s will is to love in fullness:.
Listen, Israel, the LORD, our God, is the only LORD; You will love the LORD your God with all your heart, soul, and strength; these words I send you today will be in your heart; You will instill them in your children, and you will talk about them sitting in your house, walking down the road, lying down, and getting up; you will also tie them as a sign in your hand, and they will be for you between your eyes. You’ll write them on the doorsteps of your house and on your doorstep. Deuteronomy 6. 4-9 God wants you to love him with all your heart
You will love the Lord Our God with all your heart, and when you love him like this, you will spread that love beginning in your family, within your home, this love will be evident, it will be written in your mind and your heart and at the entrance of your home, it is a love that manifests itself among your loved ones, but also for those who come to you , is a love that we talk about all the time, from the beginning to the end of life. Everywhere, stopped or in transit.
Loving with all your heart is obvious, it is not contained, in secret, because it occupies your whole heart, overflows, breaks the limits of who you are and spreads in the next.
Loving with all your heart is an intrepid action that the Holy Spirit makes grow in us in a supernatural way.
Beloved sheep, after the fall, when Eve and Adam disobeyed the orders of our God, in the Garden of Eden, our sinful hearts were abandoned to all kinds of weaknesses. We’re vulnerable. We live in a fallen world and are immersed in our own sins.
We fight heroically every day to win the war between our own will and God’s will in our lives.
This war begins in a secret place, in ourselves, in our hearts
The heart is a place that no one sees, one of the characteristics of our heart is that it is a secret place for people, we can simulate a smile on our face even if our heart does not smile, but beware!Often our hearts overflow and words escape from our mouths what we really are and not what we show ourselves to be.
Although we do not see the heart, God sees, seeks, and knows.
God knows our heart and since he created us he already knew we would have heart problems. The sin of Adam and Eve, like the one we carry in our hearts today, does not surprise the Lord.
Because our God is sovereign, he rules all things on earth, in heaven, and even in our hearts.
“I, the Lord, search my heart, taste thoughts; and this to give to each according to his course, according to the fruit of his actions. Jeremiah 17. 10
But with the problem of sin, we have turned away from God and cannot find our way back. The further away we are from God, the more our hearts are corrupted with our own desires (James 1:14) and with the things of the world This is known in the Bible as IDOLATRIA.
God is not happy with our godly heart because He is a jealous God
?? because they’ve all turned away from me to follow their idols.
Therefore, tell the house of Israel: Thus said the Lord, the Lord, Become, turn away from your idols, and turn away from all your abominations. Ezekiel 14: 5-6
Do you know what idol sits around your heart?Do you know what great idol is fighting for God’s place in your heart?
I sounded my heart, asked the Lord for help, and my jaw collapsed when I discovered who the idol of my heart was, I thought it might be my job, my house, I even thought of my puppies, but it was nothing like that, the idol of my heart that steals the throne of the Lord has a name and a name: myself!
When you think: I’m not going to spend my time with that because my time is too valuable for that, or when I think I’m going to stay in bed for a while today, doesn’t it matter if I’m a little late?I show that I love myself, that I am more important than the others.
If you trust yourself or others more than you trust in God, I’m sorry to tell you, but you are destined to distance yourself from God, your strength, your power, your mercy.
“Thus saith the Lord, Cursed man who trusts in man, makes mortal flesh his arm, and sets his heart away from the Lord!”Jeremiah 17. 5
Overcoming idolatry is a difficult job for pilgrims. There is a daily (and bloody) struggle of our flesh with our minds.
For those who bow for the flesh consider the things of the flesh; But those who bow before the Spirit for the things of the Spirit; for the inclination of the flesh leads to death, but that of the Spirit to life and peace; therefore, the inclination of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not subject to god’s law, nor can it be; Therefore, those in the flesh cannot please God; but you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. What if someone doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, that person doesn’t belong to him?Romans 8. 5-9
Sheep, idolatry prevents us from being wholeheartedly united to Our Lord. After all, there is only one king and one throne, do not divide your heart between two lords.
? No one can serve two lords; because either he’ll be angry with one and he’ll love the other, or he’ll dedicate himself to one and despise the other. Can’t you serve God and riches? Luke 16:13
Then God speaks. Overcoming idolatry is an order!
“Wherefore, make your earthly nature die: prostitution, impurity, lustful passion, bad desires, and greed, which is idolatry. Colosssenses 3. 5
To displease the Lord with an idylather heart, sharing God’s throne with other gods implies how eternal life will be lived, with God, or without God.
However, as for the cowards, the unbelievers, the abominable, the murderers, the filthy, the sorcerers, the idylas and all the liars, their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, that is, the second death. 21,8
This is the bad news, but we have it in Christ Jesus!
So we obey God’s call, but can you ask me HOW?I’ve tried to walk with God, but I’m incapable, I’m weak, I have no discipline, I don’t have a temper I can’t!
That’s right, sisters, we can’t, we can’t because we’re corrupted with mind and heart.
The heart is deceptive, more than anything, and hopelessly corrupt; Who’s going to know him?Jeremiah 17. 9
That is why we implore, we mourn, we invoke the name of the Lord
“I implore your grace with all my heart; have mercy on me according to your word. Psalm 119. 58
Then the Lord will listen to us and say, “Then ye shall call me, begin to pray to me, and I will hear thee. You will look for me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. “. ? Jeremiah 29. 12-13
But we have Christ, our Savior, he is the one who can, he is our perfect high priest, God who became man and suffered our weaknesses, lived our weaknesses, but without sin and gave us life and life in abundance. Jesus who allows us to love with all our hearts.
Therefore, having Jesus, the Son of God, as the great high priest who went up to heaven, let us keep our confession firm; for we have no high priest who cannot feel sorry for our weaknesses; rather, he was tempted in everything, in our likeness, but without sin; so let us go confidently to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace for help at the right time.
Because God has given us salvation in our Lord Jesus Christ to have a new life and He Himself will give us a new heart with His Holy Spirit.
Then I will spray you with pure water, and you shall be pure; I will cleanse you of all your garbage and all your idols; I will give you a new heart and I will put a new spirit in you; I’ll take your heart out. stone and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit in you and make you walk in my statutes, keep my judgments and keep them. Ezekiel 36. 25-27
So, whatever we do, let us do it with all our hearts, because it is for Our Lord.
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that you will receive the reward of the Lord’s inheritance. Christ, the Lord, do you serve? Colossses 3. 23