1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,760 Man to to go through what he did and then to carry that cross to 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:09,760 Calvary and, and be and be nailed on it and, and, you know, 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:13,600 still have the, the presence of mind, I guess you would say, to 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:18,200 know exactly what he was doing it for and to say it is finished 5 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:20,840 on that cross. And what a what a picture we 6 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,920 have of all that happening in the Bible. 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:29,360 But I saw a guy, Christian guy that he said for the last few 8 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,400 years he's been on Easter Sunday morning, he goes out and it's 9 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:36,240 part of his workout routine, I guess. 10 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:40,000 But on Easter he puts, they assume they, they estimate the 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,200 cross weighed about 300 lbs roughly. 12 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:47,040 And so he puts a, a £300 beam on his back and walks the distance 13 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,800 that it would have been to Calvary. 14 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,880 And he shows himself starting and he's, you know, kind of 15 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:55,280 going decent. He's walking and then he gets 16 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,400 done and he's just, he's exhausted and they, and he 17 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:02,320 always uses this video to say, and Christ did that completely 18 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,080 torn to shreds. You know, after all the beating 19 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:07,200 and everything that he took, then he still carried that 20 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,200 cross. It's no wonder that, you know, 21 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,320 halfway, halfway there, he, he fell under the weight of it. 22 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,480 But what a what an amazing thing Christ did for us and I hope we 23 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,520 never forget. I'm so glad that he didn't walk 24 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,800 away from that cross. He could have the Bible says 25 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,880 that he could have called 10,000 angels to destroy the world that 26 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:30,240 was there putting him on that cross, but he didn't and he took 27 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:32,280 that for us. What an amazing thing. 28 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,600 All right, turn in your Bibles to first Samuel chapter 10. 29 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:39,560 And while you're turning there, thank you to everybody that's 30 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:45,440 pitching in while all the normal spot fillers are gone. 31 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:50,040 I know the mute the sound is is always I've done it a couple 32 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,000 times and it is much more difficult than the people that 33 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,360 know what they're doing make it look like. 34 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:59,280 So you've heard of the the the the word picture of you know, 35 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,840 somebody who's making things look so smooth, but underneath 36 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,320 their their legs are like a duck just going crazy. 37 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:06,840 That's kind of how Sunday mornings are when pastors gone. 38 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,800 So maybe it looks smooth, maybe it doesn't. 39 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:15,520 I assume it it seems smooth. But anyways, first Samuel 40 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:20,760 chapter 10, brother, brother Greg mentioned this this morning 41 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:23,880 in Sunday school that you know, once, once you're asked to 42 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:25,600 preach, it's not something we do all the time. 43 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:27,840 So it's, it's definitely out of our comfort zone. 44 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:34,040 But immediately you start asking God, what do you want me to 45 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:35,680 preach on? It's a, it's a serious thing. 46 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:39,680 I believe it's not just something you go in and oh, I've 47 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:41,560 preached this before. Grab it out and I'll preach 48 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,120 that. I mean, it's, it's what you want 49 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:48,160 God to have you preach for his people and for yourself to study 50 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:51,840 out. And so I did the same thing. 51 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:54,600 By the way, I got to mention this Sunday morning does not 52 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,240 necessarily mean it's the most qualified that's preaching 53 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,880 Sunday morning. Pastor gives me a four, four or 54 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,280 five different message or spots that need filled and I pick 1 55 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,560 and I got Sunday morning so that no, I'm just kidding. 56 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:11,960 That's not how that happened. But anyways, First Samuel, I'm 57 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:17,160 reading through the Bible this year on a, what's it called? 58 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:19,920 Chronological chronological order. 59 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:24,440 So it's not necessarily in order that the Bible is, is compiled, 60 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:28,160 but it's in order that it was written as best they can figure 61 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,240 out. And just a week or so, week and 62 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,640 a half ago, we, we came through first Samuel chapter 10. 63 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:37,880 And I read something that I don't think I've ever noticed 64 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,280 before, or, or at least it's never been pointed out. 65 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,120 It's never really stuck out to me. 66 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:44,000 And we're going to look at that this morning. 67 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,360 But before I do that, I don't have any jokes, but I've got 68 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,040 some facts. And I think by our facts, you're 69 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,760 going to be able to tell what we'll be talking about this 70 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:56,280 morning. But the the the lifespan of a 71 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,800 heart. The average human heart beats 72 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:04,440 100,000 times per day, and the average human lifespan of a 73 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:09,680 heart will beat 2.6 billion beats in a lifetime roughly. 74 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,040 Got some more facts though? Blood pumping. 75 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:17,680 Each minute the heart pumps nearly a 1 1/2 gallons of blood. 76 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:19,480 They have this all in liters and I can't. 77 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,120 It doesn't make it doesn't compute to me. 78 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,600 So I switched it all to to what we can understand, but each 79 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,040 minute the heart pumps nearly a gallon and a half of blood Judge 80 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:34,360 adds up to about 2000 gallons of blood a day that the heart 81 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,520 pumps. They say the adult heart is 82 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:39,040 roughly the size of two hands clasped together. 83 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,040 So that's about the size of your heart and it weighs between 12 84 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:46,920 and 16 ounces. So I would place our hand over 85 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,840 our our heart like this. The The heart sits just left of 86 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:53,680 the center of your chest, protected by ribs, and the left 87 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,680 lung is slightly smaller to accommodate it. 88 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:01,640 This is interesting, though. The heart's rhythm is controlled 89 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:05,000 by what's called the cardiac conduction system, which allows 90 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,440 it to be even when it's disconnected from our body. 91 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,640 And that's pretty amazing. The electrical pulse is in it 92 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:12,880 allows it to be completely disconnected. 93 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,320 But here's some some neat facts about hearts. 94 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:21,600 A blue whale's heart can weigh up to or can weigh over 1000 95 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,600 lbs. That's what they say it's, and 96 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,160 it's roughly the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, like a 97 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,200 Volkswagen bug. That's how big a blue whale's 98 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,320 heart is. But the hummingbird's heart 99 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:37,920 weighs grams and can beat over 1000 * a minute. 100 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:43,000 And they also say the American pygmy shrews, a little tiny mole 101 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,360 of sorts, has the fastest mammalian heartbeat at 1200 102 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:51,760 beats per minute. All right, let's see. 103 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,720 I've got one for the kids here. Oh, this is something we need to 104 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,280 pay attention to. There are patterns, they say, 105 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:01,520 for heart attacks. Based on the data, the most 106 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:04,280 heart attacks of court occur on Christmas Day. 107 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,000 I don't know if it's the husband realizing how much money was 108 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:12,000 spent, Down he goes with the wife maxing out credit cards. 109 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,960 I'm not sure. But the most heart attacks occur 110 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,320 on Christmas Day, followed by the day after Christmas, maybe 111 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:21,240 when it's finally setting in, and then also on New Year's Day, 112 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,440 with Monday's being the riskiest day of the week for heart 113 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,280 attacks. So interesting facts there about 114 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:30,840 our hearts. And this one's for the kids to 115 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:35,160 help you understand how much 2000 gallons of blood is a day. 116 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:39,680 They say the blood can pump the equivalent of about 40 bathtubs 117 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,120 full of blood every day. That's how much your heart 118 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:47,000 pumps. So anyways, it is Sunday 119 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:51,080 morning, so we got to get a little bit more spiritual about 120 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:55,440 what we're going to talk about. But the Bible references and we 121 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:58,320 are going to talk about the heart this morning of sorts. 122 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,440 But the heart is going to be our topic and we'll see that in 123 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,240 first Samuel chapter 10. But it's the Bible says the 124 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:10,120 Bible references the heart 1100 times and almost without, 125 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:15,880 without exception, it is not referencing the physical, 126 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,920 biological organ that we were just talking about, but the 127 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:22,440 center, the heart as the center of our thoughts, our emotions, 128 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:26,080 our intellect and our spiritual life, guiding our actions and 129 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,240 reflecting one's relationship with God. 130 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,120 And if you think about that, I'm going to read a couple verses, 131 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:32,880 but everywhere we see the heart in the Bible, that's what it's 132 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,280 talking about. For example, Proverbs chapter 4, 133 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:37,080 verse 23. Keep thy heart with all 134 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:40,160 diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. 135 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,040 It's obviously not talking about your physical heart, right? 136 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:47,320 Keep your heart, keep your what we already said, your thoughts, 137 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,360 your emotions, your intellect, your spiritual life, your 138 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:53,320 relationship with God. Keep that with all diligence, 139 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:55,320 for out of it are the issues of life. 140 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:58,920 That makes sense, right? You step away from your 141 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,840 relationship with God. You stop spending time in God's 142 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:06,920 word, you stop being in church and you can actually see 143 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,760 yourself starting to drift. Your spirituality, your 144 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,880 spiritual life starts to drift. Jeremiah 17/9. 145 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:16,760 The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. 146 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:20,120 Who can know it? Obviously, again, not talking 147 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,200 about our physical heart. It's, it's our, our, our 148 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,160 emotions, our intellect is, is wicked. 149 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,760 It's deceitful. Bible even says, who can 150 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:32,760 actually know that? Who can know the heart? 151 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,559 First Samuel 16, seven. But the Lord said unto Samuel, 152 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,480 look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature, 153 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:42,960 for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh 154 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,520 on the heart. And again, this is when David is 155 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:52,200 being chosen as king and, and God tells Samuel, I'm not 156 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,120 looking at the outward appearance, I'm looking at man's 157 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:55,600 heart. What is he? 158 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,280 What is his relationship with me like? 159 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:00,320 Matthew 58. Blessed are the pure in heart, 160 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,200 for they shall see God. Proverbs 3, five and six. 161 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:04,880 Brother Greg read this this morning. 162 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,680 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thy own 163 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:10,720 understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, 164 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,960 and He shall direct thy path. So we see the heart mentioned, 165 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,440 like I said, 1100 * / 1100 times in the Word of God, almost 166 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:25,560 always referring to this, this emotion, this intellect, this 167 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:32,360 spiritual life that we have. Now, as a side note, we often, I 168 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:38,120 think, use them as the same when we talk about the heart and the 169 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:44,040 mind, right? We'll often say in, especially 170 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:48,240 when we're teaching or when we're talking to someone else 171 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:53,000 spiritually or, or with a biblical context, the heart and 172 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,800 the mind, we kind of use them interchangeably, but the mind 173 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,720 is, is, I think there are, it is different, but I think it's, it 174 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,880 is kind of subtle. The heart is often focused on 175 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:06,000 feelings and the will, while the mind is often associated with 176 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,040 reasoning. And so, for example, I want, I 177 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:15,280 want us to understand this because sometimes we reason what 178 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:17,840 is right to do based on maybe what we know about the word of 179 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,080 God. We reason that that is our mind. 180 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:22,440 But then with our heart, we do something different. 181 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:24,840 That's our, our will, our, our desires. 182 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:29,520 And so, for example, somebody might say, I have a mind to 183 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:35,240 whatever, you know, often it's in in reference to discipline. 184 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:40,960 I have a mind to, to whoop you, you know, but then someone else 185 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:43,680 might say my heart just isn't in it. 186 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:47,400 So, so for example, it may be something that you know, is 187 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:50,960 right to do or, you know, it's a good thing to do something that 188 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:53,840 you've reasoned in your mind. This needs to be done, but my 189 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,560 heart's just not in it. That's the, and that's our will. 190 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,440 And so we're going to talk about that this morning. 191 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:06,080 Our, our hearts in that context. All right, so go to first Samuel 192 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:07,680 chapter 10 if you're not already there. 193 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:09,880 And we're going to start in verse one, just to get a little 194 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:11,960 bit of context. We're going to read down through 195 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:16,600 verse 12 and then we will, we'll pray and get into this message. 196 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,760 But first Samuel chapter 10 and verse one and this to give you a 197 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:24,360 tiny bit of background, is Saul when he's about to be anointed 198 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:29,520 as king and these preceding chapters, he is, he is with a 199 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:32,320 servant and he's hiking through these regions looking for 200 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:36,240 donkeys that have been lost. He's looking for the donkeys of 201 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:40,680 his father. He's the he is the donkey keeper 202 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,880 for his father and they get lost and he's he's searching for them 203 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:48,440 and pretty diligent about it, to be honest, to the to the point 204 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,920 where they've been gone so long. He says, hey, let's go back 205 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:54,960 before dad starts asking, man, I wonder what happened to them and 206 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,160 forget about the donkeys. What happened to Saul in my 207 00:11:57,160 --> 00:11:59,320 servant? So that's the background here 208 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:04,240 and he comes to Samuel verse chapter 10, verse one. 209 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,800 Then Samuel took a vial of oil and poured it upon his head. 210 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,640 And what actually happened here is he was looking to go to the 211 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:12,480 man of God to help him give direction. 212 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:14,120 Tell me where these donkeys are AT. 213 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,360 And that's when he comes to Saul and I mean Samuel and Samuel 214 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,680 took a vial of oil and poured it upon his head and kissed him and 215 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:24,240 said, is it not because the Lord hath anointed thee to be captain 216 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,440 over his hair, His inheritance, which is news to Saul? 217 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:30,520 He has no idea this is coming. He's just going to look for 218 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:33,760 guidance where to look for these donkeys and all of a sudden he 219 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:39,360 is being anointed by Samuel as captain over Israel. 220 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,800 And I'm I'm sure he was confused himself not understanding what 221 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:45,600 was going on. You also have to remember 222 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:50,240 Samuel's sons were the last judges of of Israel. 223 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:56,480 Bible says that in the preceding past chapters, but Samuel's sons 224 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,600 did not walk with God like he did. 225 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,680 And so because of their actions is when the people actually say, 226 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:03,880 you know what, just give us a king. 227 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,960 We we're done with the judges. They were corrupt is what the 228 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:10,000 problem was. They were corrupt and they and, 229 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:13,160 and they were not godly. And so God's people or the 230 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,280 children of Israel finally said, give us a king. 231 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:18,280 And God tells Samuel, you know what, yes, give them what 232 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,040 they're asking for. Go, go find a king. 233 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:23,040 And here we have Saul. When thou art departed first two 234 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:26,880 from me today, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel Sepulchre 235 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,520 in the border of Benjamin at Zelza. 236 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,400 And they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek 237 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:36,520 are found, and lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses 238 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,600 and sorroweth for you. Saying, What shall I do? 239 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,160 For my son is exactly what Saul was worried about. 240 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:44,640 They found the donkeys, and now they're worried about Saul. 241 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:47,920 His father's weeping for him. Then shalt thou go on forward 242 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:51,400 from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there 243 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,560 shall meet the three men going up to God to Bethel, one 244 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:57,160 carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, 245 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:58,760 and another carrying a bottle of wine. 246 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,440 And they will salute thee, and give thee 2 loaves of bread, 247 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:03,160 which thou shalt receive of their hands. 248 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,120 Verse 5. After that thou shalt come to 249 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,000 the hill of God, where is the Garrison of the Philistines, 250 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:13,400 which Saul would deal with for his entire reign, the 251 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,160 Philistines. But he's coming over to this 252 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:17,480 Garrison of the Philistines. And it should come to pass, when 253 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:19,880 thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a 254 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,680 company of profits coming down from the high place, with a psal 255 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:26,320 tree, and a tablet, and a pipe, and a harp before them. 256 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,240 And they shall prophecy, and the Spirit of the Lord will come 257 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:32,160 upon thee, and thou shalt prophecy with them. 258 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:34,720 And thou shalt be turned into another man. 259 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:38,040 Interesting phrase there Thou shalt be turned into another 260 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,400 man. And let it be, when these signs 261 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:44,560 are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee, for God 262 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:46,760 is with thee. And thou shalt go down before me 263 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:50,520 to Gilgal, and behold, I will come down unto thee to offer 264 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:53,520 burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace 265 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:55,880 offering. Seven days shalt thou tarry till 266 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,680 I come to thee and show thee what thou shalt do. 267 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:02,320 And it's also interesting. Remember when Saul was commanded 268 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:07,800 to to completely wipe out certain cities, and he didn't do 269 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,520 it. And, and what is Samuel's 270 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:12,960 response to him? When you were small in your own 271 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:15,960 eyes, then God, God bless you, he had favor on you, but now 272 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,520 you're big in your own eyes and, and you have problems. 273 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:21,720 Well, still here in chapter 10, it's all small in his own eyes. 274 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:25,280 He's, he's doing exactly what Samuel commands him to do. 275 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,200 All these verses are Samuel commanding him to do things. 276 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:30,880 And verse 9 we see. And it was so that when he had 277 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,120 turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another 278 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:36,920 heart. And all those signs came to pass 279 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:38,560 that day. Everything Samuel said was going 280 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:41,400 to happen happen because Saul did what he was exactly what he 281 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,600 was told to do in verse 10. And when they came thither to 282 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,840 the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him, and the Spirit 283 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:51,120 of God came upon him. Saul and he prophesied among 284 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:52,960 them. And it came to pass, when all 285 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:56,720 that knew him before time saw that, behold, he prophesied 286 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,280 among the prophets. Then the people said one to 287 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:01,080 another, What is this that has come under? 288 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,000 The son of Kish is saw also among the prophets. 289 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,160 And one of the same place answered and said, But who is 290 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:10,440 their father? Therefore it became a proverb is 291 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:14,560 Saul also among the prophets and this happens actually a couple 292 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:18,480 times in the life of Saul where he prophesized what's going to 293 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:21,120 happen. And in this proverb actually is 294 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,400 is fact. It becomes a proverb in Israel 295 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:27,440 is all also among the prophets. But what I want to focus on this 296 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:31,480 morning just for a few minutes is in verse 9. 297 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,120 And it was so that when he had turned his back to go from 298 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:39,920 Samuel not in a bad way. He's leaving, God gave him 299 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:45,360 another heart and all those signs came to pass that day. 300 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:49,120 God gave him another heart. That's what I want to I want to 301 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:56,000 look at this morning for for us is that maybe that should be our 302 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,160 prayer. God give me another heart. 303 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:04,119 I think it's important when we get going in our, in our 304 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,520 Christian life, we get going in our walk with God and it starts 305 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:11,040 to get cold or it starts to not be what it used to be. 306 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,240 I don't know that there's anything particularly that we 307 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:21,800 can do to fix that other than to ask God to, to help us fix that. 308 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,839 We see that in Psalm 51. We see that quite a bit actually 309 00:17:24,839 --> 00:17:32,240 in David's prayer there of of confession and of of humbling 310 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:34,800 himself before God. He says restore to me the joy of 311 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,280 my salvation. He's not saying I'm going to 312 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:40,160 restore my joy. He's asking God to do that. 313 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:44,280 I believe that's exactly what this that was in Psalm 51, David 314 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,720 saying God give me, give me that heart that I used to have, give 315 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:49,680 that back to me. So we're going to look at six 316 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:51,400 things. They're going to be short and 317 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:57,280 six, six different types of heart that we can ask God for 318 00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,880 this morning that he'll give us a new heart in these six 319 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:01,800 different areas. Before we do that, let's go 320 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:04,080 ahead and pray and then we'll look at those things. 321 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,680 Father, I thank you for this day you've given us and I thank you 322 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,880 for the opportunity we have to meet around your word. 323 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:14,560 And God, I pray that as you worked in in my heart about this 324 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:18,520 topic, I pray that you'd help me to be able to convey these same 325 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:20,920 thoughts to your people. And I pray that you'd help us, 326 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,480 maybe if there's one of them that we're struggling and God, 327 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:29,320 that we would be able to take take a look at what's inside of 328 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,960 our heart. And, and maybe we need to ask 329 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:36,560 you for a new one and maybe to change what we've got going on 330 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:40,480 in our life, not not because we're we've made a mess 331 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,640 necessarily, but because we need a different mindset. 332 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:47,000 We need a different heart attitude toward what we've been 333 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,280 doing. And so I pray that you just use 334 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:53,160 these words that you've given me in the hearts of your people in 335 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,000 Jesus name, I pray. Amen. 336 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,480 Turn to Ezekiel chapter 36. If you will, keep your finger 337 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:04,440 there in first Samuel or a bookmark and go to Ezekiel 338 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:11,400 chapter 36. If you have a second bookmark, 339 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,880 leave it in Ezekiel because at the end of the message we'll be 340 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,800 back in the same passage. But verse 30, chapter 36 and 341 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:22,960 verse 26 is what I want to look at for our first first point and 342 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:27,800 the first point being God give me a new heart towards sin and 343 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:33,280 my rejection of Christ. This is this is where all of us 344 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:39,960 were at some point in our life. Most, I would maybe be fair to 345 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:45,640 say everyone in America has heard of Jesus Christ right now. 346 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,080 Maybe in, in remote regions, they've not heard of Jesus 347 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:52,720 Christ and they're worshipping idols because they, they don't 348 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:57,040 know anything about him. But in America and and we know 349 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:00,960 who Jesus is. But our heart before we were 350 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:05,000 saved, our heart attitude towards sin and our rejection or 351 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,920 our rebellion against Christ is, is one that we don't care. 352 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:11,280 We don't care that we're rejecting him. 353 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:16,080 And so Ezekiel chapter 36 verse 26 says this. 354 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:22,720 Let's see verse 26 and this, this you can read this whole 355 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,520 passage, but this is Jesus talking or this is God talking 356 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:28,200 to Israel. But I think it very much applies 357 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,440 to the the unsaved heart. He says, then will I sprinkle 358 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:35,320 verse 25 clean water upon you and you shall be clean from all 359 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,080 your filthiness and from all your idols. 360 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,280 Will I cleanse you? Well, we've all, we all before, 361 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:43,760 especially before our salvation were filthy and had idols in our 362 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:47,240 lives. That's us from all your 363 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:50,200 filthiness and all your idols. Will I cleanse you a new heart 364 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,880 also will I give you? And a new spirit will I put it 365 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,200 within you? And I will. 366 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,440 And what does that do? When I give you a new heart? 367 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,880 I will take away the Stony heart out of your flesh and I will 368 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:07,160 give you a heart of flesh. And what he's saying is, you 369 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:10,360 know, the parable of the, the sower, when he's sowing seed, 370 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:13,880 that's the picture of, of seed, the gospel falling on different 371 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,480 hearts, right? And the Stony heart just does 372 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,200 not receive it. It can't receive it. 373 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,360 And God says here in Ezekiel, I'm going to give you a heart of 374 00:21:22,360 --> 00:21:24,920 flesh that you'll be able to accept the gospel. 375 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,720 That is, that's, that's from God. 376 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:32,680 And, and my point here is we need God to give us a new heart. 377 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,960 That'll be the maybe the subtopic underneath every one of 378 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:37,480 these. God has to do it. 379 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:39,680 That's the important thing to remember. 380 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:44,400 This is not a motivational speech of brother Ninton sent a 381 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,720 video maybe a couple of you saw it, but he sent a video of this. 382 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,960 This woman was preaching and that's a problem. 383 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,600 First of all, but she was preaching away and I you could 384 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:55,280 tell she was reading it. So I don't know if it was 385 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:58,640 actually her message or what, but she's just I mean she sound 386 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:02,360 like a lion up there roar. It was it was in a church. 387 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:07,600 This is your time you take the reins is going on and on. 388 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:12,000 That's not that's not biblical. God has to do that in our hearts 389 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:16,520 to make us able to accept the seed of the gospel. 390 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:19,360 And I mentioned that the heart and the mind are different, but 391 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:22,280 this is where the heart and the mind being different is so 392 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:27,080 important in our minds meet. We might sit in a message where 393 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,840 the gospel is preached and realize I need God, I need to be 394 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:35,600 saved, I need to do that. But then in our hearts we don't 395 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,120 have any desire to truly be reconciled back to God. 396 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:40,800 That's, that's the difference. We can come. 397 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:43,200 I mean, think about it. Even the devils believe and 398 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:47,760 tremble and refuse to humble themselves before God. 399 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,600 They know in their minds what's right. 400 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:55,040 They know who he is. But they refuse in their heart 401 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,880 to accept that. They refuse to to let God give 402 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:06,640 them a new heart. This is this is another thing. 403 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:10,000 Maybe you are sitting here and and I I'm looking out over the 404 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:10,960 crowd. I don't know. 405 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,520 I have no way of knowing. I can't look on the heart. 406 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:16,760 Remember God, we read that verse God, man looks on the outside, 407 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:18,960 but God looks on the heart. I have no way of looking at the 408 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,880 heart and knowing who is and who is not saved, who has accepted 409 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:24,880 Christ. But maybe you're sitting here 410 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:27,840 and you realize your sin is a huge problem. 411 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:32,280 We were knocking doors a couple weeks ago and and talk to a man 412 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,760 about this exact thing. We have a huge issue our sin. 413 00:23:36,360 --> 00:23:42,560 That is the issue. The issue is not particularly or 414 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:46,720 maybe the first issue is not am I going to heaven or not I need 415 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,400 to go to heaven. That's not the main issue. 416 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,800 The main issue is you are separated from God because of 417 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,080 your sin. A great byproduct of accepting 418 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:58,960 Christ as your Savior is heaven, but that's not the main goal of 419 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,720 salvation is heaven or to escape hell. 420 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,000 The main the main goal is to be reconciled back to God because 421 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,360 of our sin. And so maybe we're sitting here 422 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:13,320 realizing I have a a huge problem and that is sin because 423 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,960 I've never asked God to forgive me and redeem me back to the 424 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,040 Father with and through his blood. 425 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,600 But I, and we've all heard people say this, I don't deserve 426 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,400 forgiveness. I don't deserve to be forgiven. 427 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,800 None of us. But none of us do, right? 428 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,640 Every one of us that has accepted Christ, we know we did 429 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:34,760 not deserve to be forgiven. And so God doesn't base our 430 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:38,920 forgiveness on deserving or not. Of course we're not deserving. 431 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,760 We're in a rebellion against God, refusing to turn from our 432 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:43,800 sin. Of course we don't. 433 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,440 If if any sin didn't deserve to be forgiven, it'd be that one. 434 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:52,080 But God does anyways because he gives us, as we see in verse 26 435 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,680 of Ezekiel chapter 36, a new heart. 436 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,800 And I will take away the Stony heart out of your flesh and will 437 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,680 give you a heart of flesh. And verse 27 He continues on And 438 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,320 I'll put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my 439 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,480 statues, and you shall keep my judgments and do them. 440 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,800 Think about this. I think sometimes we get so 441 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:15,840 proud sitting in church, maybe growing up in church that I, I 442 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,320 follow the Bible, I do what I'm supposed to do. 443 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,120 But verse 27 says I put that in you. 444 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,280 I put that desire to walk in my statutes in you. 445 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,760 I did that. God did so we have nothing to be 446 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:29,720 proud of. We have everything to be 447 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:35,720 thankful for that he gave us a new heart toward our sin and our 448 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,280 rejection of Christ, a heart for our salvation. 449 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,200 Now I wanted to touch real quickly on this and then we'll 450 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,880 move on. But you know, it's a it's a big 451 00:25:46,360 --> 00:25:49,720 debate. Now is repentance needed for 452 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:55,320 salvation because repentance is a work and and it is it's a big 453 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:56,760 debate. I don't know if you've heard of 454 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:00,320 it or not, but it's out there. And without getting too deep 455 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,880 into that, I think this is exactly this makes the point 456 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,680 that's that repentance is not a work. 457 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,760 Psalm chapter 34, verse 18. The Lord is nigh unto them that 458 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:15,560 are of a broken heart and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. 459 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:20,600 Jeremiah 24/7 I will give them an heart to know me. 460 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,560 When God changes or gives us a new heart in this in this 461 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:30,840 respect for salvation, we repent of our sin because of the new 462 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,440 heart he gave us. Therefore repentance is not a 463 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:38,440 work of ours. It's what God gave us that gives 464 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:39,800 us. What do you think it means when 465 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,880 it's when the Bible says and gives us the power to become the 466 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:48,800 sons of God. He empowers us to realize what 467 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,200 our sin has done to us. Go to Ephesians chapter 2, 468 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,720 please. Ephesians chapter 2, a very, 469 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:58,920 very familiar verse, but I want to read it maybe in a little 470 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,240 different way than we're used to hearing it. 471 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:05,520 This is a verse that we learn as little kids in in Sunday school 472 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,560 and in Awamas when I was growing up Lighthouse Kids Club. 473 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:13,080 Now this set of verses for by grace are ye saved through faith 474 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,440 and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of 475 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:16,560 works, lest any man should boast. 476 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,840 And that is a great verse and it is a verse for our for 477 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,480 salvation. But if we slow it down just a 478 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,840 little bit for by grace are ye saved through faith? 479 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,000 And then there's a break, right? For by grace are ye saved 480 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,000 through faith? And that what is that that 481 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:40,480 referring back to? I think the faith because 482 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,800 because it says and that not isn't and that not of 483 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,600 yourselves. Well, we know grace. 484 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,280 The grace isn't of ourselves. We know the salvation isn't of 485 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:49,960 ourselves. So then what about the faith? 486 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:51,800 Well, that we tell people all the time. 487 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,720 You have to have faith to believe what Jesus did for you 488 00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:00,840 on the cross so that the faith is not of yourself, which goes 489 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,440 back to these verses that we just read. 490 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:07,600 God gives us a heart of flesh to accept the gospel and have put 491 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,800 our faith in the Son of God. But even the faith that we have 492 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,600 is not of ourselves. It's given to us by God. 493 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:19,680 What a gift and so yes, Jesus death on the cross is a gift. 494 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:26,160 It is but the Bible tells us that the carnal man cannot can't 495 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:31,000 realize that that gift that that was given to us on the cross. 496 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,840 We they don't even they don't respect it. 497 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,960 They don't acknowledge it. They don't aren't thankful for 498 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:42,280 it until we are given that faith, that heart of faith from 499 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,960 God himself and then and then that would say Oh well then and 500 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,600 Calvinism that must be accurate that it is of God. 501 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:57,640 No, God gives us a new heart to accept him but that that spirit 502 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,400 or that we saw that in Ezekiel and gives you a new spirit to 503 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,400 walk in his statutes and all the rest of that that comes from us 504 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,080 giving that message out that people need. 505 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,080 They have a problem that they are not reconciled back to God 506 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,320 because of their sin. And then God says, see, now you 507 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,240 know now I will give you the faith that you need to accept 508 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:20,680 me. It's still not works. 509 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,960 And so they're the debate for is repentance works or not? 510 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,240 It's not. The Bible's very clear on that 511 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,440 all over the place, but that's not the point of tonight, this 512 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,240 morning's message, but very clear. 513 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,960 Repentance is, is needed. It is needed. 514 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:38,760 If you don't have a change of mind and a change of heart about 515 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,760 your sin, what do you need saved from? 516 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,080 Why would you feel the need to come to Christ and say, please 517 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:46,440 save me, I can't do it on my own. 518 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:50,000 Do what? So repentance is needed for 519 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:54,000 salvation, but God gives us that heart of repentance. 520 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:58,440 What a what a gift, a second gift in our, in our salvation 521 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,880 experience. Let's move along forsake of 522 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,880 time. And secondly, we're going to 523 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:07,560 we're going to look at God. These are all requests. 524 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,160 These are not commands, by the way, God, give me a new heart. 525 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,320 It's a request. God give me a new heart. 526 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,200 We know we have problems. We know most of the time what 527 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:22,720 our problems are and we just can't in and of ourselves. 528 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,440 We can't come to the point where we say I'm I'm going to get this 529 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,680 right. You know, determination is a 530 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,560 great thing, but it only goes so far. 531 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:36,720 We need a new heart. You know, the little engine that 532 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,760 could, the little train. I think I can. 533 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:42,360 I think I can. I think we have an engine that 534 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,280 is failing and we need a new one. 535 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:46,720 We need a new heart for those things. 536 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,720 I think I can does not get us spiritually where we need to be. 537 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,320 We need God to to give us a new heart. 538 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:57,760 So secondly, God give me a new heart towards sin that breaks 539 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,720 the heart of Christ and breaks my relationship with Christ. 540 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:08,080 So now this is not a new heart in our in salvation, but a new 541 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:12,120 heart toward my sin. Really the the repentance even 542 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,400 after we're saved, we we need to repent. 543 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:18,560 We need to ask forgiveness often the hymn writer and you may know 544 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:22,960 the story behind this, but he he wrote prone to wander, Lord, I 545 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:27,920 feel it prone to leave the God I love and then the next phrase 546 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:32,000 says here's my heart O take and seal it seal it for that courts 547 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,800 above but prone to wander Lord, I feel it. 548 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,520 And if you know the story behind that, the guy that wrote that 549 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:43,720 later was in a in a carriage and young lady was was humming that 550 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:48,440 that hymn and he got in the carriage and he said, what is 551 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,080 what is that you're you're singing? 552 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:51,760 And she told him, she said, have you ever heard it? 553 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,440 And at this point this was I don't know that I don't think he 554 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:56,840 was a pastor at it. I'm not sure. 555 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,120 I didn't go read the story, but he was a Christian man for sure 556 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,680 and wrote this him and she asked him if he had ever heard it. 557 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,560 But by this time, for several years, he had been completely 558 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,040 away from his walk with God, doing his own thing in the 559 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,040 world. And he told this this young 560 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:18,520 lady, ma'am, I am the poor Wretch that wrote that song. 561 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:23,960 And then thankfully the story goes, he came back to Christ. 562 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,600 God smote his heart here as to what he had been doing, but 563 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,480 prone to wander. Lord, I feel it. 564 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:38,080 Do you feel that I do we in we naturally do not love to do to 565 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:42,440 go after the things of God. We're prone to wander, and not 566 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,560 only are we prone to wander, we're also very prone to the 567 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:50,160 attacks of Satan who help us wander and help us get 568 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,680 sidetracked by things that just are not important. 569 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,120 But here's my heart, O take and seal it. 570 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,600 Seal it for the courts above, which is why God tells us in 571 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,000 Proverbs chapter 4, we already read this verse, but he says 572 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,520 keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the 573 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,720 issues of life because we're prone to wander. 574 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,920 Keep your heart but when we fail to keep it, we read in Psalm 51 575 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:18,480 verse 10, David wandered, slipped, fell and then he says 576 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:23,480 created me a clean heart Oh God, and renew a right spirit within 577 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:24,920 me. That's what we're talking about 578 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:29,000 this morning. Give me a new heart to see sin 579 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,600 the way you see it. We know how God sees it, but do 580 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:37,560 we see it the way he sees it? We excuse ourselves, you know, 581 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:43,280 for and I mentioned this often, but we, we excuse ourselves for 582 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:48,760 our pet sins or our maybe things that it's, it's not that bad. 583 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,760 But the Holy Spirit has told you, yes, I want you to stop 584 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:57,040 that. If it's not that bad and nobody 585 00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,880 else thinks it's bad, I mean, it's but but if God works in 586 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,480 your heart to change that, it needs to be changed. 587 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:09,440 Lust, change my heart toward that. 588 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:14,040 God, please not a command again, but please change my heart 589 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:15,960 toward that. How about this for the kids? 590 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:20,239 A bad attitude toward my parents, bitterness toward my 591 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,600 parents, anger when I'm told what to do. 592 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,600 How, how about that? Why are we always fighting that? 593 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:34,000 Because A we're flesh, but B, we don't see our sin as that bad 594 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,800 before the eyes of a holy and righteous God. 595 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:41,400 We don't think think about what Satan did when he got kicked out 596 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,040 of heaven. What was his, what was his sin? 597 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,880 Pride. And so when God says honor your 598 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,159 father and your mother, that's a command. 599 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:55,880 And you say, me, I feel like having a bad attitude. 600 00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,960 You've just put yourself above God in pride. 601 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:02,960 That's a big problem and we don't look at it that way. 602 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,920 Or when God says, you know in Matthew, the Sermon on the 603 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,960 Mount, that if you look with look on a woman with lust, 604 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,080 you've committed adultery in your heart already and you say 605 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:18,560 it's just a look that we've put ourselves above God's word, 606 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,160 which we heard this morning from brother Greg just did a little 607 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,240 bit there. He's but the Bible says that he 608 00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:30,320 honors his word above Christ himself that think about how 609 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:35,480 much how important God's word is and we say me, I feel like doing 610 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:36,640 that so I'm just going to do that. 611 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:43,240 We need to ask God for a new heart in regards to how we see 612 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,200 our sin. Psalm 51, verse 12, just a 613 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,160 couple verses after the one we just read. 614 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:52,840 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy 615 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,440 free spirit. How do we restore the joy of our 616 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,880 salvation, the new heart toward our sin, a new attitude toward 617 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:03,520 our sin given again by God. Thirdly, and we'll move through 618 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,720 these next ones pretty quickly, but thirdly, I want to mention 619 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:09,680 them though, a new heart toward prayer. 620 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,160 God give me a new heart toward prayer. 621 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,960 My desire to pray instead spend time with God is just not there. 622 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,760 Or it's or it's dry. I do it because I know I'm 623 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:25,000 supposed to, but it's just not warm. 624 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:30,640 It's not think it think about any relationship that you look 625 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:34,440 back or think back fondly on and say, man, I remember when we 626 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,880 used to whatever it is right, your, your, your mom or your dad 627 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:46,040 or a sibling or a spouse and then that that closeness drifts 628 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:47,120 away. I'll give you an example. 629 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,560 I just talked to him last week, actually April 6th, whenever 630 00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:53,960 that was two weeks ago. One of my best friends growing 631 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,920 up for forever. His birthday is on April 6th. 632 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:58,880 My one of my brothers is also on April 6th. 633 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,520 So it's really easy to remember. But I called him. 634 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:05,640 I have not talked to him I think since I moved to Virginia. 635 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,800 So it's been 10 or 11 years and we were best friends and there 636 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,240 was no reason for it. We just he lives all the way out 637 00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:14,520 and I think Idaho or Wyoming now I think he's in Wyoming and 638 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,760 we're completely the other direction. 639 00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:20,960 We just don't talk. And I, I, when I was going to 640 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,440 call him, I thought back, man, what, what has happened? 641 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,000 There's no animosity, there's no anger. 642 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,840 We just drift apart. And so when we got to talking, 643 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,200 you know, we reminisced a little bit on some things from growing 644 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,680 up. The song me and Sarah sang last 645 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,160 once on a hillside, we sang that for a competition in high school 646 00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:44,360 one time, me and him. And so we were talking about 647 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:45,760 that. He said, I saw that, I saw that, 648 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,440 you guys sang that. But we do that with God. 649 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:54,640 And so we go through the motions of praying, but that closeness 650 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,880 is just not there. We've drifted so far apart and 651 00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:02,400 our prayer should be God give me a new heart toward prayer. 652 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:06,520 I can't I think this is a good place to put it, not because it 653 00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:10,800 has anything to do with prayer, but just has to do with having a 654 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,200 heart for certain things. And I think that's that's the 655 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,240 issue A lot of times with prayer, our heart for it is just 656 00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:19,520 gone. We we don't really care. 657 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:21,640 We don't realize the importance of it. 658 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,320 But when Mike Tyson after his, I'm not a Mike Tyson fan, by the 659 00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:26,920 way. I like, I think he was a great 660 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:28,920 boxer, but I'm not a fan of Mike Tyson. 661 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,680 But after his fight with Jake Paul just recently, if you want 662 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:37,440 to call it a fight, he was doing an interview, naturally, and 663 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,040 they asked, they asked him if he would fight again. 664 00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:43,520 Hey, you didn't do too bad. You know, you looked fairly 665 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,560 capable out there. Where will you fight again? 666 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,800 And this is what Tyson said. I've lost my heart for the ring 667 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,120 and I don't want to disgrace the sport of boxing by getting in 668 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:56,600 there without my heart to fight. I think that's what we do often. 669 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:01,200 We've lost our heart for the things of God and yet we show up 670 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,480 and we disgrace the Church of the living God. 671 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,880 That's what I do. I come to church on Sundays, but 672 00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,680 we've lost our heart for it and how do we get that back? 673 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:13,320 Again, this is not a motivational message to say go 674 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,480 get it back. Go get it back. 675 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:19,280 This is a this is a message to say you've got to go to God and 676 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,400 say, please give me that heart that I used to have when I first 677 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,000 stepped through the doors of that church that I know you put 678 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,680 me in. And it was so warm and and I 679 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,320 just got something every message. 680 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,560 And now I can barely keep my eyes open while while the 681 00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:37,560 preacher's preaching and he gets excited about things and I 682 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,720 actually get upset at him because who's heated? 683 00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:44,880 Yell at me about whatever we've lost our heart for, for the 684 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,640 things of God. And that's how we get it back. 685 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:53,080 Ask God to give you a new heart, a heart for not a sport of 686 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,520 boxing, but a heart for the things of God. 687 00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,680 Fourthly, kind of goes right into this point. 688 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,720 God, give me a new heart toward preaching. 689 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,400 If you've ever gotten up here and preached, you know how much 690 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,560 time it takes to get ready for a message. 691 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,800 You know how? How not hard, but how mentally 692 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,240 hard it is. Now add that to all your pastors 693 00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:17,000 responsibilities of leading the church, making decisions for the 694 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:21,280 church, counseling anybody that needs help, all of that and 695 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:26,320 still making messages and still having a walk with God himself. 696 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:30,880 So he knows what God's people need and he does all that gets 697 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:32,560 gets a message. And I'm not just talking about 698 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,320 our pastor. I'm talking about pastors across 699 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:39,120 across the the world that do this every single week, week in 700 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:43,880 and week out gets a message for God's people and we hear it. 701 00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,320 And then we sit there and say, who does he think he is to tell 702 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:51,040 me that or why is he pinpointing my issue? 703 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:55,760 Pick on something else or we've heard that topic so many times. 704 00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,120 Well, there's a reason maybe because we're not changing. 705 00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,360 So he has to keep preaching the same message, right? 706 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:05,840 But God gives him that message and I would say, who are we to 707 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,800 question the man of God? And I don't mean that in a he's, 708 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:13,680 he's a king sense, but God gave him that message for his church, 709 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,960 for his people, not his the pastor's God's people. 710 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:22,040 And then we, we raise our hair up against that. 711 00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:23,960 We put up a wall. I'm not changing. 712 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,560 I'm not doing that. We need a new heart toward 713 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:29,880 preaching. We also need a new heart toward 714 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,840 wanting to be taught and wanting to hear that preaching. 715 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:39,240 I hope that you come in every service ready to hear what's 716 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,840 it's great to have the fellowship and to have the the 717 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:47,680 music and all of that. But where we really gain ground 718 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:49,920 against Satan is when the word of God is preached. 719 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:56,800 And I hope that you come in looking for that message each 720 00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,640 service. And this is this is the thing. 721 00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,040 I'm not here to to give you anything new. 722 00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,920 I'm not here to correct problems in the church this morning. 723 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:10,400 I'm here as another layperson saying, if we want God to to use 724 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,920 us, if we want to have that warm relationship with God, if we 725 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:17,160 want God to use this church, we need a new heart in some of 726 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,760 these areas. And so God can bless his church. 727 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,440 But we've got two more fifth one, a new heart. 728 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:27,800 God, give me a new heart for the spiritual battle. 729 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:35,240 You know, I'll be honest, there were times growing up when maybe 730 00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:40,120 maybe we were going to have, I don't know, dodgeball or 731 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,800 whatever, something simple and I go, yeah, I'm going to back up 732 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,480 because there's a lot of big guys up there. 733 00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:49,120 Or in wrestling. I remember doing wrestle offs to 734 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:50,640 see who's going to get that weight class. 735 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,680 And I'm over here hoping that those two will wrestle first. 736 00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:55,560 A So I kind of see what they got going on. 737 00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,960 And also so they'll be tired when it's my turn. 738 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:04,320 And but I think in in our in the spiritual battle, in spiritual 739 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:08,680 warfare, we lose heart. Yeah, I'm going to let him fight 740 00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:12,240 this one, not because we don't have the strength, but we we 741 00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:17,040 just lose heart for the battle. I mean, men, think about it. 742 00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,280 You're a husband or a father. We're fighting a spiritual 743 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,560 battle, not just for ourselves, we're fighting a spiritual 744 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,680 battle for our wives and for our children and, and literally for 745 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,280 our children's spiritual existence. 746 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:34,920 That's what we're fighting for. And if you and I'm not I, I'm 747 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,360 guilty of this at times. So I'm not preaching at you. 748 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:41,240 I'm, I'm, I'm telling us this is where why we need a new heart. 749 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,320 But sometimes you come home from work and you go, man, I just 750 00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:46,160 don't feel like dealing with that problem. 751 00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:48,680 You've lost heart for the spiritual battle. 752 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,560 That's what the spiritual battle is. 753 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,240 Bible tells us that we aren't wrestling against flesh and 754 00:43:53,240 --> 00:43:54,960 blood, but against principalities. 755 00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:59,360 Every spiritual battle you fight that's against the 756 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,560 principalities and spiritual wickedness in high places, it's 757 00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:07,400 against Satan himself. And if he doesn't always come 758 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:14,080 with glowing red eyes and you know, straight at us, sometimes 759 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,040 he comes in little subtle things that we make enough. 760 00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,960 We, we don't fight it enough times that all of a sudden it's 761 00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:24,520 a huge problem in our lives because we lose our heart for 762 00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:28,200 the spiritual battle. Ladies, you're a wife or a 763 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,480 mother. We need a heart to go to 764 00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,640 spiritual battle for our kids and our husbands. 765 00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:38,200 I think I, I changed this. It actually said with go to 766 00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:39,800 battle with our kids and husbands. 767 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,560 That's not that's not what we're trying to do right, But to go to 768 00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:46,720 spiritual battle for them. Your husbands are going out into 769 00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:49,920 the workforce every day where there is a lot of wickedness. 770 00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,400 We won't even I won't even start to describe it because there's 771 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:58,720 so much of it. But they need some armor and 772 00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:02,440 they need a wife that's at home praying for them as they go out 773 00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:07,640 to be able to come back to to to that rest of us of a Christian 774 00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,440 home. There's nothing better than that 775 00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:14,160 for a man to go out and be able to come home to that, that, 776 00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:16,320 that. And by quietness, I don't mean 777 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:19,880 nobody's talking, but that, no chaos, no fighting. 778 00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:24,080 No, that's, that's a Christian home that a wife is fighting, a 779 00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,040 spiritual battle to keep. And we need that. 780 00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:31,680 We need a heart for our spirit, for the spiritual battle. 781 00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,440 Think about it. When these soldiers are 782 00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:35,920 training, Brother Johnny's not here. 783 00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:39,560 But when they go train, they're not training so that they look 784 00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,680 good. They're not training so they 785 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:45,760 know how to shoot just so they know how they're training so 786 00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,240 that when they are called upon to go to battle, they're ready. 787 00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,160 Well, it's the same way with us. We study God's word. 788 00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:54,440 We read it like Greg was talking about that this morning. 789 00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,360 We don't read God's word so that we can get up and say I read 790 00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:00,920 God's word. I this how many chapters a day I 791 00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,280 read. That's not why we do it. 792 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:06,080 We do it so that we know what God's word says so that when as 793 00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:09,120 Satan did came to Christ and he fought him with the word of God. 794 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:12,680 When we have temptation in our lives, we can fight it with the 795 00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:16,680 word of God. We know what our how to use our 796 00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:23,800 weapons anyways, we'll move on here, but but that's my point 797 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,800 here. The fifth one is ask God to give 798 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,160 us a new heart to get into the battle. 799 00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:32,480 Like I said, sometimes we're ready to. 800 00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:34,680 I'm very uncomfortable knocking on doors. 801 00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:37,080 I'm going to let I will let somebody else do that. 802 00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:41,120 That's the spiritual. That's, that's the spiritual 803 00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:45,320 battle as well. And anybody that does do that, a 804 00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,200 you get a little more comfortable as you go out and do 805 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:49,680 it. I would very much encourage you 806 00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:52,640 to do that, even if you're shy. I'm very shy. 807 00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:56,720 And the last thing we used to, we used to joke about it when we 808 00:46:56,720 --> 00:46:58,840 were on the bus route and we'd go up to the door and we do 809 00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:02,400 that, but please don't answer the door knock. 810 00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,200 You know, I'm doing my duty, but I don't want to talk to anybody. 811 00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:10,040 That's not we, we need to go up there a with confidence, but but 812 00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:12,760 we need to have a heart for that spiritual battle, not because we 813 00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:14,640 know it all, not because we have all the answers. 814 00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:17,880 There have been times where somebody has asked a question at 815 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:21,800 the door and I said, never even thought about that before. 816 00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,520 But if you don't mind us coming back, we'll I'll get an answer 817 00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:28,320 for you and come back. That's rare but it's fine but we 818 00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:30,840 need to have a heart to be out there on the front lines. 819 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,920 That's what the front lines of this of the spiritual battle are 820 00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,520 in addition to fighting for our families and then lastly and 821 00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:42,520 we'll be done but kind of goes along with this. 822 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:47,280 But God give me a new heart toward leading others to Christ. 823 00:47:49,240 --> 00:47:53,160 Bible tells us that he that winneth souls is wise. 824 00:47:55,960 --> 00:48:03,280 But when we we talk about spiritual spiritual warfare, the 825 00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:07,280 spiritual battle we but we are not fighting against politics 826 00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:10,000 against bad gun laws, against taxes. 827 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:14,040 That's not what we're fighting. We're fighting a a fight against 828 00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:20,280 Satan for the souls of men that I mean that's what it comes down 829 00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:22,760 to. And so when we get sidetracked 830 00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:26,000 and, and again, I'm not your pastor, I'm not here to tell you 831 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:27,640 what you should or shouldn't be involved in. 832 00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,800 That's not my job. But when we get too distracted 833 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:35,160 by by politics, by sports, by whatever, when we get too 834 00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:41,040 distracted by things that aren't bad, Satan still ends up winning 835 00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,640 because he has sidetracked the soldiers. 836 00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,440 You know, think about soldiers going into battle and this is 837 00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,640 their mission. And they come across the little 838 00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:51,520 old lady that's got broke down in her car. 839 00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:54,000 The whole, oh, we got to go help her and they do that. 840 00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:56,760 That's good. But they got sidetracked, 841 00:48:56,760 --> 00:49:00,000 completely failed on their mission because they didn't do 842 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,880 what they were called to do. And I think sometimes we do that 843 00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:06,440 as Christians. We're doing good things. 844 00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,320 That's not bad to fight politically. 845 00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:14,840 It's not bad to to, to fight certain things to keep our 846 00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:16,480 freedoms. It's not bad, but we get 847 00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:21,080 sidetracked to not do what we are called to do. 848 00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:23,400 And that's what the Great Commission is. 849 00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,160 It's not a phrase the Great Commission. 850 00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:30,560 It is a Great Commission of soldiers in God's army that we 851 00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:32,640 are called. That's what our Commission is. 852 00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:36,080 And so we, we, let's not get sidetracked. 853 00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:40,000 And I think sometimes we need to ask God to give us a new heart 854 00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:45,960 toward leading others to Christ. Now go back to first Samuel 855 00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:47,680 chapter 10. I told you we'd be coming back 856 00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:49,120 there. This is where we're coming back. 857 00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:53,160 We're going to wrap it up here and, and be finished. 858 00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:58,680 But first Samuel chapter 10 and verse 9, and I already mentioned 859 00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,120 this, but I think it is it is worth repeating. 860 00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:10,400 And it's maybe maybe more important to getting a new heart 861 00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,920 toward these things. And it came and it was so that 862 00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:17,720 when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, this is the 863 00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:23,040 phrase that I want to God gave him another heart. 864 00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:28,720 I want to I want to point out one more time that this is not 865 00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:33,720 our work or our doing. You know, sometimes you'll hear 866 00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:39,680 a message preached challenge us to go do something. 867 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:44,160 And that's good that this is a little more of challenging you 868 00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:49,320 to go ask for something from God, a new heart toward one of 869 00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:54,280 these areas or, or all these areas that that you need God to 870 00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,880 do that in your life. That's that's very, very 871 00:50:56,880 --> 00:51:00,560 important here because you could say, I'm going to go knock on 872 00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:02,720 doors and I'm going to get in the spiritual battle. 873 00:51:02,720 --> 00:51:07,760 And you and you, if you don't have a heart for that, you will 874 00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,320 stop. You will get tired of it. 875 00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,640 You will start complaining about it. 876 00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:17,280 It's so hot, it's 92° and I'm out here on the sun side because 877 00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,760 the other group took the shade side knocking doors, right? 878 00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:24,600 We'll start complaining about all these things because God 879 00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:25,840 hasn't actually given us a heart. 880 00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:30,080 It's very important that God gives us this heart toward these 881 00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:33,680 things. Now Saul, we see that in verse 882 00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,160 11. But Saul was unrecognizable to 883 00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:39,640 the people that knew him after he got this new heart to be a 884 00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:42,040 king and to be a warrior. Saul was shy. 885 00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:45,160 Remember when they went to crown him king, they couldn't find 886 00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:47,120 him. He was hiding among the stuff 887 00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:52,000 the Bible says. Because that was not Saul. 888 00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,880 He was not a warrior. He was not a king. 889 00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:59,880 But go to Second Samuel should just be a few pages for you. 890 00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:05,960 Second Samuel chapter 1. So you have Saul, who was the 891 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:09,360 shy, no name. I mean the Bible says he was 892 00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:14,720 very handsome, tall, good choice for a king from man's 893 00:52:14,720 --> 00:52:18,760 perspective, but he was not striving to be a king of Israel. 894 00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:23,040 He was, he was happy to be a shepherd of donkeys, but God 895 00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,320 gave him a new heart. And look what we see here in a 896 00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:27,440 few chapters. Second Samuel chapter one verse 897 00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:32,960 23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives and 898 00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:34,800 in their death. They were not divided but this 899 00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:38,560 is what Bible says about Saul. They were swifter than eagles. 900 00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:43,160 They were stronger than lions. Talking about in in battle took 901 00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:47,200 a shy guy that just I'm fine having no conflict. 902 00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:50,400 I'll travel through these regions looking for some donkeys 903 00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:53,120 for my dad. Just a just a nobody. 904 00:52:53,720 --> 00:52:56,960 God gave him a new heart and then his legacy is swifter than 905 00:52:56,960 --> 00:53:00,120 an eagle, stronger than a lion out doing God's work. 906 00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:06,200 But he had to have a new heart. And so we'll close with this. 907 00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:10,360 The message today is not, as my coach used to say, rah rah shish 908 00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,640 boom Bah. Have anybody ever heard that rah 909 00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:14,560 rah shish boom Bah? They used to say that all the 910 00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:16,840 time. This isn't rah rah shish boom 911 00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:19,360 Bah. I'm telling you to do this in 912 00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:22,320 wrestling. That's, that's, that's not what 913 00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:23,920 this is this. I'll leave that for the 914 00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:25,320 evangelist. They're really good at it, 915 00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:27,560 right? This is also not a message of 916 00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:29,440 correction. I'll leave that to to our 917 00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:32,840 pastor. This is a message. 918 00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:35,320 I already mentioned this, but from one layperson to another 919 00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:40,800 layperson that we as part of the Church of the Living God need 920 00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:44,960 Him to give us new hearts toward these things so that we can be 921 00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:50,320 effective in His service. I told you we were going to go 922 00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:52,360 back to Ezekiel. I don't know if you guys closed 923 00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:53,920 your Bibles already, but go back there. 924 00:53:53,920 --> 00:54:04,130 One last passage. I want to read Ezekiel 36 and 925 00:54:04,130 --> 00:54:08,090 we'll close with this. Now we read verse 26. 926 00:54:08,210 --> 00:54:11,130 A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put 927 00:54:11,130 --> 00:54:14,770 within you. But the reason, the reason I 928 00:54:14,770 --> 00:54:17,450 keep emphasizing that we need to ask God for this. 929 00:54:17,450 --> 00:54:23,800 Look in verse 37, Ezekiel chapter 36 says Thus saith the 930 00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:27,160 Lord, so all these things, a new heart, all of that, Thus saith 931 00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:31,240 the Lord God. I will yet for this be inquired 932 00:54:31,240 --> 00:54:34,920 of, and he says by the House of Israel to do it for them, but I 933 00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:40,280 will be inquired of for this. I think God wants to give us 934 00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:45,440 victory in spiritual warfare. I think He wants us to give us 935 00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:51,800 power in prayer. He wants to give us all these 936 00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:55,120 things that we talked about, but he says I will be inquired of 937 00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,640 for it. I want you to ask me for that. 938 00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:02,160 Then I know, A, you're serious and B, you'll know it's from me, 939 00:55:02,240 --> 00:55:04,840 but I will be inquired of this. I think that's a very 940 00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:09,240 interesting phrase in the Bible and it's real close to a new 941 00:55:09,240 --> 00:55:12,200 heart I will give you and a new spirit I'll put within you, and 942 00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,680 I will take away the Stony heart out of your flesh and I'll give 943 00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:17,400 you a heart of flesh. I'll put my spirit within you, 944 00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:19,200 cause you to walk in my statutes. 945 00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:21,360 You should keep my judgments and do them. 946 00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,440 But then the Lord says I will yet for this be inquired of. 947 00:55:26,720 --> 00:55:28,480 And so that's my encouragement to you. 948 00:55:29,720 --> 00:55:31,920 If there's any one of these six things that you say, you know 949 00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:33,920 what, I really have lost it on that. 950 00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:38,600 I need, I need that back. My encouragement is then go ask 951 00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:40,640 God for a new heart in that area. 952 00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:43,000 All right. And that's a it's a simple 953 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:46,480 message, but I think most preaching is simple. 954 00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:49,600 It's what we do with it afterwards that makes all the 955 00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:51,200 difference. If you say, man, you know what, 956 00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:52,800 that's really good. I need to ask God for that. 957 00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:54,560 And you don't and you go away and never do it. 958 00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:57,560 And we'll be back in the same same boat, right? 959 00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:01,720 But if we go away and say, you know what, God, I know I can't 960 00:56:01,720 --> 00:56:04,960 do that on my own, but if you'll give me a new heart, I will go 961 00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:10,000 out and I will win souls for you or attempt to God, I know that 962 00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:13,400 I'm I'm not naturally built for spiritual battle, but if you 963 00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:17,480 give me a new heart in that area, I will go to war for those 964 00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:19,920 that I love. I will go to war for my church. 965 00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:22,440 I will I will do that if you give me a new heart for it and 966 00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:25,280 ask him for it. Saul wasn't asking for it. 967 00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:28,040 Even Bible just says he gave him a new heart. 968 00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,800 And next thing you know, he's swifter than an eagle, bolder 969 00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:33,600 than a lion, ready to go to battle for God. 970 00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,840 We can do that. And that's not a motivational 971 00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:40,880 you, you, you have it in you. We don't have it in us. 972 00:56:41,240 --> 00:56:45,040 We need a new heart from God to make U.S. soldiers for him. 973 00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:47,520 All right, let's bow our heads, close our eyes. 974 00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:50,160 Go ahead and stand with me. We'll close in prayer. 975 00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:52,880 And then right after that, she'll play a few verses on the 976 00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:57,280 on the piano. And if God has worked in your 977 00:56:57,280 --> 00:56:58,640 heart, you come forward and deal with him. 978 00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:00,800 But let's pray. Father, I thank you for this day 979 00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:02,440 you've given us. God, I thank you for this 980 00:57:02,720 --> 00:57:06,600 message that you worked in my heart from your word with God. 981 00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:10,960 I just pray that I would have made it make sense to your 982 00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:15,560 people and they would see the necessity of a new heart from 983 00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:17,320 you for all these different things. 984 00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:21,080 But God, it comes from you and God, I pray that you would give 985 00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:26,240 us a a new heart towards sin. Yes, sin in the world, but our 986 00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:28,400 own as well. God, the things that we've been 987 00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:32,600 letting go or letting slip for so long because it's not that 988 00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:34,320 big a deal. Pray that you give us a new 989 00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:38,520 heart toward those things and we clean those up in our lives and 990 00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:43,160 and got our relationship with you would be restored to what 991 00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:46,080 you want it to be, not just what we're OK with it being. 992 00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:50,440 And I just thank you for your word, thank you for your church 993 00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:52,480 and thank you for all the people that make it up. 994 00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:55,600 God, I just pray that you'd help us to continue to grow. 995 00:57:55,600 --> 00:58:00,360 Always be looking to to draw closer to you, to walk with you 996 00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:04,720 and God just let you use our lives however you see fit. 997 00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:06,800 In Jesus name I pray. Amen.