Sunday Morning, November 8, 2015
Sermon
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Bible Study Notes
*Purpose – making sure our heart is right.
*There is no division between genuine salvation and their heart being clean.
*What is the “new heart” like? What would that mean for your life?
If you have an unchanged heart, then you are not experiencing real salvation.
Ezekiel 11:17-20
Idolatry is detestable to God. People revere lust, other people, and imagery that resembles pagan symbolism.
Believers should have a heart that beats in rhythm with others who worship God. In addition a believer should have a new spirit, a right spirit.
God will extract the hardened heart, and transplant a passionate, caring heart, one that beats for the purpose of God.
Where does your heart lead you? What do you really love? These are questions that a believer must constantly prioritize.
Ezekiel 18:30-32
Whatever needs to be done, it has to be done, if you want to have a real relationship a God. Repentance is not optional. If you have things in your life that are out of step with God, then you must repent.
We should see our life as nothing without Christ. But a regenerate believer should never see themselves as losers, or inferior, or worse. You should hold your head up, not because of your own pride, but because of your passion for Christ, and your life in him.
You have to make a place for God to give you a new heart. That place is hulled out by humility and repentance.
Some of the scriptures that illustrate judgment and warning seems as though God is harsh, and forces you into a relationship. But, this warnings are like the laws, like the warnings the law issues. If you abide in righteous living, then you know heaven awaits. If you hold on to your sin, then you will also reap a reward, death, misery, destruction, and ultimately hell.
Ezekiel 36:24-27
If you have a new spirit and heart your life will radiate with the fervor fit for service for God.
You can’t delay this decision, you have to urgent, and have passion. God is jealous and you are not promised tomorrow.
If you are forgiven, then you will be showing God your appreciation by how you live your life.
Matthew 18:21-35
Have you ever wondered how many times that God has forgiven you for things that you have done? The answer is probably to high to count. Since God has forgiven you of your sins, you should be so thankful that you can’t keep animosity in your heart for others. You have to be forgiving if you want to be saved.
Psalms 34:1-18
The way to be saved is to have a broken heart, if you know that you are in need of his forgiveness. You have to be contrite or very sorry, and you understand that you are desperately in need of God.
Did you reach the point where you realized that you are desperately in need of God?
Isaiah 66:15-
When you are out of touch with God, your worship and praise is very disgusting to God. The sweetest note is sung by a pure heart, one that fears, reveres, and loves its maker.
When you rebel against God, it is not without consequence. Sometimes people are deeply troubled, irrational fears, it may not be a coincidence. God was troubling their spirits to bring them to him. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
NO God, NO Peace
KNOW God, KNOW Peace
He is not going to make you a Christian, he doesn’t force himself on you. But, he gives you the choice. You can submit or rebel. One has reward, one has a harsh but reasonable consequence.
John 3:1-8
Do you like what God wants you to like, do you care for the things he desires you to care for. If not, then you are not saved!
You must be born all over again.
**You also, can’t take it back. God takes this very serious.