1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,420 If you have your Bibles, I'd like to invite you to turn to 2 Samuel chapter 11. 2 00:00:11,420 --> 00:00:17,360 We're going to look at verses 1 to 10 and 14 to 16. 3 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:28,320 Second Samuel chapter 11, verses 1 to 10 and 14 to 16. 4 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,320 When you have it, can you say amen? 5 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:36,960 Alright, well let's read it. 6 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:43,120 In the spring of the year, at the time when kings normally conduct wars, David sent out 7 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:48,500 Joab with his officers and the entire Israelite army. 8 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:55,580 They defeated the Amorites and besieged Rabah, but David stayed behind in Jerusalem. 9 00:00:55,580 --> 00:01:00,500 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. 10 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:03,680 From the roof he saw a woman bathing. 11 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,220 Now this woman was very attractive. 12 00:01:06,220 --> 00:01:09,700 So David sent someone to inquire about the woman. 13 00:01:09,700 --> 00:01:15,160 The messenger said, isn't that Bathsheba, the daughter of Iliam, the wife of Uriah the 14 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:16,720 Hittite? 15 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:19,020 David sent some messengers to get her. 16 00:01:19,020 --> 00:01:22,860 She came to him and he went to bed with her. 17 00:01:22,860 --> 00:01:28,680 Now at that time she was in the process of purifying herself from her menstrual uncleanness. 18 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:31,080 Then she returned to her home. 19 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:36,960 The woman conceived and then sent word to David saying, I'm pregnant. 20 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:41,320 So David sent a messenger to Joab, send me Uriah the Hittite. 21 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:44,640 So Joab sent Uriah to David. 22 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:50,480 When Uriah came to him, David asked about how Joab and his army were doing and how the 23 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,600 campaign was going. 24 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,840 Then David said to Uriah, go down to your home and relax. 25 00:01:55,840 --> 00:02:00,480 When Uriah left the palace, the king sent a gift to him. 26 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:04,800 But Uriah stayed at the door of the palace with all the servants of his lord. 27 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,200 He did not go down to his house. 28 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,080 So they informed David Uriah had not gone down to his house. 29 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,880 So David said to Uriah, haven't you just arrived from a journey? 30 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,200 Why haven't you gone down to your house? 31 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:24,200 Let's skip to verse 14, in the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it to you 32 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:25,760 with Uriah. 33 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:31,500 In the letter, he wrote, station Uriah at the front in the thick of the battle and then 34 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:33,100 withdraw from him. 35 00:02:33,100 --> 00:02:35,480 So he'll be cut down and killed. 36 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,740 So Joab kept watch on the city. 37 00:02:38,740 --> 00:02:44,780 He stationed Uriah at a place where he knew the best enemy soldiers were. 38 00:02:44,780 --> 00:02:49,240 When the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, some of David's soldiers fell 39 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:50,240 in battle. 40 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:58,440 Uriah the Hittite also died. 41 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:07,340 Today the message we're going to talk about is entitled, Matters of the Heart. 42 00:03:07,340 --> 00:03:13,680 And what I want you to notice from this scripture reading is that David was a man of God's 43 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:15,640 own heart. 44 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:18,340 He was after God's own heart. 45 00:03:18,340 --> 00:03:24,600 David loved the Lord like most of us probably never will. 46 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:32,880 But if you notice that just for a moment, David took his heart away from God and the 47 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:37,040 story that we read is the result of that. 48 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:44,260 And so for us, the message here today is about the heart. 49 00:03:44,260 --> 00:03:52,080 And I hope that you recognize that this message is not for the unbeliever. 50 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:59,080 This message is for the believer. 51 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:04,040 You've heard of a series that has gained popularity called The Chosen. 52 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:07,520 Have you heard of it? 53 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:16,160 So The Chosen, 95% of the content in The Chosen is not from the Bible. 54 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:22,320 It's from the creative minds of the people that have written the scripts and created 55 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:25,200 the production. 56 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:34,240 And in The Chosen, there was this particular scene where Nicodemus comes to Jesus and he 57 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:38,480 asks him, are you the Messiah? 58 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:48,800 And the Jesus in The Chosen said to him, what does your heart tell you? 59 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:57,280 Disney writes tons of movies and you always see something in there that says, follow your 60 00:04:57,280 --> 00:04:59,400 heart. 61 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:03,680 You guys know what I'm talking about? 62 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:11,920 The heart tells us to follow the world and the desires and what we think is best. 63 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:21,800 And when we follow our hearts, we start to use words like I think and I feel. 64 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,680 You guys get the idea. 65 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:35,800 Without God's help, our hearts will sweep us off course and lead us to disastrous results. 66 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:42,640 Thoughts and thoughts, by the way, are used interchangeably in the Bible. 67 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:48,680 When I was at Loma Linda, when I was taking a class at Loma Linda, some of the teachers 68 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:53,280 talked about some of the research they'd been doing at that time. 69 00:05:53,280 --> 00:06:01,920 What they discovered was that our heart, and there's a kernel of nerves that are connected 70 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:09,120 to our hearts that connect to our brains, what they discovered was that our hearts and 71 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,120 our brains kind of work together. 72 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,400 It's kind of interchangeable. 73 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:19,920 What's interesting about that is if you think about it, the Bible, people from Bible times 74 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:25,860 knew that all along because they used those terms interchangeably, right? 75 00:06:25,860 --> 00:06:30,480 And so when we talk about that and when you read it in the Bible, please understand that's 76 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:32,200 what we're talking about. 77 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:37,320 What's in your heart is also in your head and what's in your head is also in your heart. 78 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,120 Does that make sense? 79 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:40,400 All right. 80 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:46,560 I want us to talk for a moment about the prideful heart. 81 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:55,000 So if you have your Bibles, turn with me to Isaiah chapter 14 verses 13 and 14. 82 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:01,760 Isaiah chapter 14 verses 13 and 14. 83 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:08,680 Now what's interesting about this scripture as you guys know is this is a king that it's 84 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:15,760 talking about, but it's kind of mirroring Satan when he was in heaven. 85 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:21,880 And what he said was in verse 13, you said in your heart, I will ascend to the heavens. 86 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:26,160 I will raise my throne above the stars of God. 87 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:35,240 I will sit enthroned on the Mount of assembly on the utmost heights of Mount Zephan. 88 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:45,840 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds and I will make myself like the most high. 89 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:57,160 This heart is what leads people to be lovers of themselves. 90 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:04,480 This prideful heart is where they find it difficult to love the way God calls us to 91 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,560 love. 92 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:11,500 We've all encountered someone that's prideful. 93 00:08:11,500 --> 00:08:20,720 But when we look at a prideful heart, the prideful heart replaces God with self. 94 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:22,480 Are you with me? 95 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:29,440 We see that here with what Satan did and we see that through this king that the scripture 96 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:31,800 is talking about. 97 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:39,980 If you look in 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 2 to 4, it gives us a better picture of the 98 00:08:39,980 --> 00:08:45,240 prideful heart. 99 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:55,840 Here's what it says, for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, 100 00:08:55,840 --> 00:09:03,640 blasphemers, disobedient to parents and unthankful and unholy. 101 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:12,640 Verse 3, without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fears, 102 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:16,280 despisers of those that are good. 103 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:26,520 Verse 4, traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. 104 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:33,140 The Bible gives us a picture of what a prideful heart looks like. 105 00:09:33,140 --> 00:09:36,800 And we can see it in our world today. 106 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:44,900 And one of the easiest ways to see it is when we, you see people constantly trying to catch 107 00:09:44,900 --> 00:09:48,540 their best image, the best parts of themselves. 108 00:09:48,540 --> 00:09:52,060 They want to show the world, look at me. 109 00:09:52,060 --> 00:09:55,180 Have you guys seen things like that? 110 00:09:55,180 --> 00:09:59,840 Does this show us a picture of what our world looks like? 111 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:04,080 The prideful heart. 112 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:07,280 But it gets different, it continues. 113 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,600 Because it's not just the prideful heart. 114 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:14,080 There's also the wounded heart. 115 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:19,240 And this is the person they can't share or receive love the way God intended. 116 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,520 They have a tendency to hurt others. 117 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:27,200 You know, there was a story of this woman, her name is Margie. 118 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:33,720 And she was so filled with hurt that, and because she had an unsuccessful and unfulfilled 119 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:38,520 career, she often hurt others with her words. 120 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:43,740 She would say hurtful things to people behind their backs. 121 00:10:43,740 --> 00:10:49,440 The minute she became hurt or angry, the gloves came off, or the, I'm sorry, the gloves went 122 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:58,200 on and she started using her tools to hurt other people because she herself was hurting 123 00:10:58,200 --> 00:10:59,480 inside. 124 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:08,400 See, there's a reason that so many marriages end in divorce and relationships are damaged. 125 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:12,600 It's because of wounded hearts. 126 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:21,480 You know, this morning I woke up and I had this situation that I was involved in, it 127 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:22,640 was on my mind. 128 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:29,880 And it was with a couple, by the way I'm a therapist, it was with a couple. 129 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:34,780 And I was trying to work with them to figure out how we can understand the communication, 130 00:11:34,780 --> 00:11:39,720 the problems in their communication, and how to make it better. 131 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:48,160 And I watched the girlfriend verbally beat up on her boyfriend. 132 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:53,040 And he just sat there, he was shaking and he was just, he put his head down and she 133 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:56,280 just went at him and she would laugh. 134 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:59,080 And it was really quite the scene. 135 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:03,600 And I just, I just was so shocked. 136 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:10,800 I woke up praying for them because I'm like, man, the wounded heart will do those kind 137 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,640 of things. 138 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:19,160 We have no problem hurting other people because our heart is hurting. 139 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:26,040 Are you guys following what I'm saying? 140 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:32,520 But there's also another type of heart and that's the spiritual heart. 141 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:37,160 And when you look at the spiritual heart, you have people like Peter. 142 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:44,120 And even after Jesus told Peter that Satan wants to sift him as wheat, Peter still betrayed 143 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:45,940 Jesus. 144 00:12:45,940 --> 00:12:51,060 That's found in Luke 22 verses 31 and 34. 145 00:12:51,060 --> 00:12:54,520 You also have the rich young ruler. 146 00:12:54,520 --> 00:13:00,920 And even after Jesus spoke to this young ruler, the very thing he needed to let go of, his 147 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:05,880 heart longed for the things that he had. 148 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:13,200 And he walked away from an opportunity to serve Jesus, to be side by side with Jesus 149 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:14,440 in ministry. 150 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:23,040 He walked away because, well, those toys I have seem to be more important and they're 151 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:25,680 calling me. 152 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:33,960 See, there's a significant problem with following your heart. 153 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:43,320 In Jeremiah chapter 17 verses 9 and 10, it says, the heart is deceitful above all things 154 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:45,640 and desperately wicked. 155 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:47,720 Who can know it? 156 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:52,560 The heart is the seed of reasoning for us and we trust it. 157 00:13:52,560 --> 00:14:00,160 I, the Lord, search the heart and examine the mind to reward each person according to 158 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:05,440 their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve. 159 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:11,160 I'd like to read that same passage to you from a different version called the message. 160 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:17,320 And it says, the heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can figure 161 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:22,640 out, but I, God, search the heart and examine the mind. 162 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:25,000 I get to the heart of the human. 163 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,200 I go to the root of things. 164 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:33,200 I treat them as they really are, not as they pretend to be. 165 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:38,040 And again, that's from the message. 166 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:50,340 If you have your Bibles, let's go to 1 John chapter 2 verse 15 and 16. 167 00:14:50,340 --> 00:14:52,200 If you have it, say amen. 168 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:58,480 Now, pay attention to this scripture because God is trying to tell us something that we 169 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,880 need to hear. 170 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:05,700 It says, do not love, by the way, that's heart language. 171 00:15:05,700 --> 00:15:10,880 Do not love the world or the things of the world. 172 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:17,600 If anyone loves the world, the love, heart language, of the Father is not in him. 173 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:23,700 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride 174 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:30,160 of life is not of the Father, but is of the world. 175 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:35,320 If we look at all of those three things, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and 176 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:42,560 the pride of life, those encompass pretty much every sin that could ever be committed. 177 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:49,200 And God is telling us to be very careful to make sure we don't have these three things 178 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:53,280 in our heart because they're not going to lead us to God. 179 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:57,440 They're leading us away from him. 180 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:02,920 What I want you to understand today is sin is a heart problem. 181 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:06,360 The satanic Bible has only one commandment. 182 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:11,960 Does anybody know what that commandment is? 183 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:16,520 That's not exactly how they phrase it, but it's definitely on that track. 184 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:20,400 It's called, do what thou wilt. 185 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:22,520 Just one commandment. 186 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,080 What does that mean, do what thou wilt? 187 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,440 Whatever you want, follow your heart. 188 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:34,000 Are you catching what the devil's doing versus what God is trying to do? 189 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,560 He's playing a game here. 190 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:42,800 See, when we gossip, we're relying on our hearts to tell us that it's okay and allows 191 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:47,440 us to justify what we're doing is right. 192 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:55,400 Even unkind words in the moment towards someone that may have upset us feels right to us. 193 00:16:55,400 --> 00:17:04,120 Paul had zeal for God and he killed Christians in the name of God because in his heart, he 194 00:17:04,120 --> 00:17:09,440 thought he was doing right. 195 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,440 Here's the good news. 196 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,760 God offers us a new heart. 197 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:20,440 He wants us to have the heart and mind of Christ. 198 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:28,200 That new heart also wants to write his law or he wants to write his law in our heart. 199 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:36,040 We're encouraged to hide his words in our hearts so that why? 200 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:38,120 We won't sin against him. 201 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:44,920 See, God is trying to change what we were born with, to change what the world has shaped. 202 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:46,960 God is offering us a new heart. 203 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:52,000 See, God allows us to choose what's in our hearts. 204 00:17:52,000 --> 00:18:02,160 We have to know that what we choose, he will also judge us by what's in it. 205 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:09,520 You want to know what's interesting, this is a different study, but we know that all 206 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:17,200 of our deeds are being written down and they're being stored somewhere. 207 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:25,640 It talks about these books, these tablets that angels are recording things. 208 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:31,040 Do you know where they're recording those things? 209 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:34,400 On our hearts. 210 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:41,040 All of our sinful deeds and actions, all of those thoughts that we have that are not appropriate, 211 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,680 they're being recorded in our hearts. 212 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:50,800 God is saying, I'll take that away from you and give you a new heart. 213 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:57,360 If he gives us a new heart, I hope you understand, he's blotted out those sins. 214 00:18:57,360 --> 00:19:02,960 He's giving us the opportunity to say you are a worthy candidate of heaven. 215 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:08,240 Are you following me? 216 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:13,120 God allows us to choose what's in our hearts. 217 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:19,640 When you think about Pharaoh, Pharaoh was an evil man and the Bible tells us that God heartened 218 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:25,360 his heart, which really means that God allowed that which was inside his heart to drive his 219 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:29,200 decisions to the point that it ruined him. 220 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:32,880 God didn't shape his heart like I'm going to make you a bad man and then I'm going to kill 221 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:34,320 you. 222 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:40,080 God allowed his own passions to drive him to ruin. 223 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:48,840 And God will at some point turn us over to the desires of our hearts. 224 00:19:48,840 --> 00:20:01,160 Let's look at Romans chapter 1 verses 24 to 32. 225 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:08,000 This is what happens to a heart that's unconverted. 226 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,160 If you have it, say amen. 227 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:17,360 It says, wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lust of their own 228 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:22,200 hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves. 229 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,920 Does that sound like something that's happening in our world? 230 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:31,760 Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the creature more than 231 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:35,280 the creator who is blessed forever? 232 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:36,880 Amen. 233 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:43,400 For this cause, God gave them up to vile affections for even their women did change the natural 234 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,920 use into that which is against nature. 235 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:52,280 And likewise, also the man leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one 236 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:58,840 toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves 237 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:04,060 a recompense and their error which was meat. 238 00:21:04,060 --> 00:21:10,000 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to 239 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:16,880 a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient. 240 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:26,440 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full 241 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:36,840 of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, bad character, whisperers, which are secret 242 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:47,000 slanders, back biters, which are defamers, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, 243 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:52,680 inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents. 244 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:59,400 Without understanding covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, without covenant, 245 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:05,240 unmerciful, who knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such things are worthy 246 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:12,200 of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. 247 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:18,720 See what God is trying to do by showing us this list of things, He's trying to highlight 248 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:24,760 where our hearts will go if we are not connected to Him. 249 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:32,000 What's important for us to understand is that if you can identify with any of those things, 250 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,760 you're on the wrong track. 251 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:40,240 God is gently trying to woo you back to Him by saying, if this is something you're doing, 252 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,560 then your heart is maturing towards sin. 253 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:45,360 Move away from it. 254 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:50,160 Come back to me. 255 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:56,160 There's a song called Hosanna, and it's a praise song. 256 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:03,640 In it, one of the lines says, break my heart for what breaks yours. 257 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:08,840 You know, we need to be praying for that, that we will see sin in the most clearest 258 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:15,080 way possible and that our hearts will be torn up because of the sin, because that's how 259 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:16,920 it is with God. 260 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:21,280 God doesn't look at sin and smile and go, there's some naughty people. 261 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:29,640 No, it breaks his heart because somebody died to pull you away from that. 262 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:39,480 So we should be praying, break my heart for what breaks yours. 263 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:48,400 The unification of Satan's army is the result of hearts turned away from God. 264 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:58,520 I want you to picture the scene where the judgment has just taken place. 265 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:02,080 This judgment is for the wicked. 266 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:11,240 They've reviewed their sinful deeds, and they were willing to say, God, you are fair in 267 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,200 everything that you said. 268 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:18,200 It is true, it is accurate, and it's fair. 269 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:27,560 I want you to picture them getting on their knees and saying that Jesus is Lord of lords. 270 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:31,480 And they're confessing that. 271 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:38,680 Right after they're finished with that, Satan calls for a huddle and he says to them, you 272 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:43,840 know, we can still take God's kingdom. 273 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:50,600 See what I want you to understand is that even though they gave homage to God, their 274 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,700 hearts weren't converted. 275 00:24:53,700 --> 00:24:59,700 Because their hearts aren't converted, there's still rebellion in them, and they're willing 276 00:24:59,700 --> 00:25:03,440 to go and fight against God. 277 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:09,900 You following what I'm saying? 278 00:25:09,900 --> 00:25:12,900 So here's the question. 279 00:25:12,900 --> 00:25:16,380 Where is your heart today? 280 00:25:16,380 --> 00:25:22,920 See the heart of the matter is if we let our hearts lead us, we're putting ourselves before 281 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:28,000 God and it has to be the other way around. 282 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:33,360 There is a reason that the way to God is a narrow road. 283 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:39,080 Paul reminds us that we have to die daily. 284 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:45,840 And in order for you to die, what has to happen? 285 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,840 What has to happen to your heart? 286 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,640 Has to stop beating, right? 287 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,600 We need a new heart. 288 00:25:55,600 --> 00:26:06,100 And Paul says, I assure you by the pride which I have in you, your fellowship and your union 289 00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:10,940 with Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily. 290 00:26:10,940 --> 00:26:17,560 I face death every day and die to self. 291 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:25,280 Maybe God has to change that heart on a daily basis because that's how corrupt it is. 292 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:29,780 That's how deceitful it is. 293 00:26:29,780 --> 00:26:35,120 So this is God giving us the opportunity for a daily heart transplant. 294 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:41,160 Our world is screaming for a change and God is waiting for our hearts to reflect his heart 295 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:47,220 and he will bless us with the tools we need to finish his work. 296 00:26:47,220 --> 00:26:56,560 Let's look at Proverbs chapter 3 verse 5 and 6. 297 00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:04,360 It reads, trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not on thy own understanding 298 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:10,080 and all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths. 299 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:15,000 Church, we need a heart transplant. 300 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:19,640 We need a heart transplant. 301 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:24,360 And this starts with the Holy Spirit convicting your heart. 302 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:31,200 And we can wrestle with it, but God is wanting the Holy Spirit, it's prompting us to change 303 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,200 our lives. 304 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:42,800 We need to spend time in the word of God and read for understanding, not just a formality 305 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,680 to start our day or to end our day. 306 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:52,880 We need to read and we need to ask God to put those words in our hearts so we don't 307 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:57,160 sin against him. 308 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,760 You know what we need to do? 309 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:09,440 We need to spend time looking at Jesus Christ and we need to spend time admiring him and 310 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:16,680 just trying to understand him and just taking our time to look and gaze upon him and learn 311 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,320 about his ways. 312 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:28,200 And gradually God will allow his ways to become our ways and it'll change us. 313 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:35,560 We need to do that daily, not just on Sabbath. 314 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:43,240 A heart transplant helps me to see my neighbor with God's love and treat him or her in a 315 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,960 way that they deserve to be treated. 316 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:53,720 A heart transplant gives me the discernment to not allow myself to be distracted by the 317 00:28:53,720 --> 00:29:01,840 foolish things of the world, but keep my eyes on God and be sold out for his cause. 318 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:08,600 A heart transplant gives me the desire to love God, to love God's way so much that I 319 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:13,940 would do it even if it cost me my life. 320 00:29:13,940 --> 00:29:21,800 I want a heart like Daniel and I want an excellent spirit in me like him. 321 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:33,120 Let's look at Ezekiel chapter 36 verse 26. 322 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:42,720 If you have it say amen. 323 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:51,280 A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away 324 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:57,940 the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you a heart of flesh. 325 00:29:57,940 --> 00:30:01,160 God is offering us something very special here. 326 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:15,140 Let's go to second Chronicles chapter seven verse 14. 327 00:30:15,140 --> 00:30:23,520 If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face 328 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:29,720 and turn from their wicked ways and I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins 329 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,760 and will heal their land. 330 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,580 What a beautiful promise. 331 00:30:35,580 --> 00:30:38,800 Two more Bible verses and then we'll call it good. 332 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:50,960 Let's look at Psalms chapter 51 verse 10. 333 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:55,280 I know you guys know this verse right. 334 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,080 Let's read it together then since you know it. 335 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:05,460 Create in me a clean heart oh God and renew a right spirit within me. 336 00:31:05,460 --> 00:31:07,500 We can claim this as a promise. 337 00:31:07,500 --> 00:31:09,700 This can even be a prayer. 338 00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:10,700 We need this. 339 00:31:10,700 --> 00:31:12,240 We need a clean heart. 340 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:19,640 Our final verse Psalms 119 verse 10 verse 10. 341 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,940 With my whole heart have I sought thee. 342 00:31:22,940 --> 00:31:28,560 Oh let me not wander from thy commandments. 343 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:36,720 See many will say Lord didn't I prophesy in your name. 344 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,600 And Jesus will say I knew you not. 345 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,560 You know what that equals. 346 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:46,200 No heart transformation. 347 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:51,640 God is reminding us that we need a new heart to turn away from our old ways. 348 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,760 The old heart just keeps doing what it knows to do. 349 00:31:55,760 --> 00:32:02,020 But a new heart will choose new ways and follow God's path. 350 00:32:02,020 --> 00:32:09,440 Any sin left over in the heart is an old heart and it just won't do. 351 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,840 We need a new heart that God offers. 352 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,840 I have some good news for you guys. 353 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:23,660 I know a heart surgeon and his name is Jesus. 354 00:32:23,660 --> 00:32:29,760 And he's willing to give us a new heart if you're willing to have it. 355 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:34,000 If this is your wish today I just invite you to stand with me. 356 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,200 Let's recommit ourselves to God. 357 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:43,880 Let's remind ourselves that we need God to transform these hearts that we have into new 358 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,880 hearts. 359 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,640 Let's pray. 360 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:57,760 Father God you recognize and you told us that our hearts are so deceitful and so wicked. 361 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:04,960 And it's so easy to not trust your words and to trust what we think, what we see and what 362 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,120 we know. 363 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,760 But Father I just want to pray that you will convict us. 364 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:15,340 Help us to understand Father that we've got to trust your words. 365 00:33:15,340 --> 00:33:17,680 Give us a new heart God. 366 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:23,480 Bless us so that we will be counted among the righteous because you transformed our 367 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:29,960 heart into a heart that mirrors Christ. 368 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,400 Father God you know our hearts. 369 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,880 You know that we desire this. 370 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,480 You know the sincerity of what we would like. 371 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,680 And we just pray for your blessing. 372 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,520 Thank you so much for hearing our prayer in Jesus name. 373 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:59,920 Amen.