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It's wonderful to be here with 
all of you today to worship, God

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in spirit and in truth and this 
morning for just a little while.

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I want to talk about a passage 
that's found in the Book of 

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Joel, the second chapter and 
verses 12 and 13. 

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Where the Bible says, now 
therefore says, the Lord turned 

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to me with all your heart, with 
fasting with weeping and with 

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morning. 
So, Rend your heart and not your

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garments return to the Lord, 
your God for, he is gracious and

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merciful slow to anger, and of 
great kindness. 

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And he relents from doing harm, 
our passage basically brings the

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title before us. 
And that is Rend your heart, and

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not your garments. 
We're going to talk about what 

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that means. 
Practically and just a minute. 

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But in ancient times, you 
remember in the near Eastern 

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lands, when individuals wish to 
show their morning or deep sense

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of Sorrow, they would tear their
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That was a custom that they did.
In fact, we go back to the Old 

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Testament and we realized when 
Jacob mourned for Joseph, the 

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Bible says that he tore his 
clothes he put on sackcloth, on 

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his waist and he mourned for his
son many days. 

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Also we find when job, you 
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When he lost his family and he 
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In the Bible says, in Job 
chapter 1 and verse 20, then job

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arose and he tore his robe and 
shaved his head and he fell to 

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the ground and he worshiped when
King David, you remember mourned

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of the passing of King Saul and 
he mourn the passing of his dear

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friend Jonathan and Jonathan's 
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We find that this is this is 
what David did. 

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They were there for David took, 
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them and so did all the men who 
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and wept and fasted until 
evening for Saul and for 

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Jonathan, his son for the people
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Israel because they had fallen 
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Now, the custom of tearing, the 
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expressing. 
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inside. 
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outward show of an inward. 
Anguish another thing that they 

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would customarily did in our 
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and the Publican that prayed you
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tax collector smote his breast 
that was an outward. 

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Sign of an inward, anguish the 
tearing of the clothes was an 

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outward sign of an inward 
anguish We don't have that 

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custom today. 
I thought about that this 

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morning when I went into my 
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I saw all these clothes in fact 
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In fact material is not that 
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it was very expensive. 
So clothing was scarce and 

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people really had to take care 
of what they had and I look at 

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my claws and I thought, you know
how many times have I purged my 

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closet and giving things away 
and I've been there cyprian of 

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that to where somebody else 
Purge their their closet and 

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gave me their things. 
It's easy to hit clothing today.

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So if we had a custom of tearing
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of an inward, anguish it really 
would be meaningless. 

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But what if your garments were 
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What if the material was a very 
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That's exactly what we're 
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We're talking about a custom and
a time. 

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It was there would be under such
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rent or they would Are the 
clothing and it meant something 

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in the day of Joel, do the 
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Had a history though of acting 
one way and being another and 

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further sins, God's prophets 
proclaimed, that God would bring

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judgment upon them. 
And Joel was one of those 

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profits. 
Nevertheless, there was time for

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repentance and what Joel is 
doing in this passage that we're

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going to notice. 
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emphasizing that it had to Be 
the people's heart that changed 

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and not just the outward 
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It has to be the heart and this 
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We noticed this in our 
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and not your garments. 
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it is all about the heart first.
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not merely the outward 
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And so the phrase Rend, your 
heart, and not your garments. 

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You know, I think the message of
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God has always demanded your 
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God wants desires and demands 
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Look at the words of the 
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David. 
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passages here but notice this 
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The sacrifices of God are a 
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contrite heart, these o God, you
will not despise couple of 

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things about this. 
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sins, right? 
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that's a fancy word for meaning.
This, he paid the price or paid 

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the fine, the great sacrifice of
Jesus Christ. 

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And as our brother prayed about 
Jesus and all that, he means to 

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us and our brother. 
We're waiting on the table and 

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mention about Jesus. 
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Jesus. 
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fine, he was the Supreme 
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entire world. 
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We get that. 
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we make under the law of Moses? 
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bulls and of animals and that 
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to the Lord or to God for the 
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What's David talking about 
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Jesus did his part and died to 
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of the world to take away sin? 
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your responsibility and my 
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If we're going to have the 
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come to God with a broken and 
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I'm going to tell you what 
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broken, and they sure don't like
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We live in a society today where
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responsible for their actions. 
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contrite heart. 
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That's what God wants. 
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this, a feeling of remorse 
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You know, I understand about 
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If we don't have guilt or guilty
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anything so when it comes to 
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sacrifice of shedding of his 
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But when we sin in our life, 
after we have come after we have

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realized that we have to do. 
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heart, we have to come to God 
with that kind of a sacrifice. 

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And David said these o God, you 
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10. 
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A clean heart o God and renew a 
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In Proverbs 4:23, keep your 
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of it Springs. 
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got to thinking about this 
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Of all the things that are 
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The heart is what? 
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from that heart that either 
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come. 
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or not. 
Really don't care. 

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I think it's true. 
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that are wicked and bad people. 
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difference between somebody that
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that's week and somebody that is
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I've known some people in my 
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people, you know, why? 
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demonstrated outwardly. 
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wicked heart. 
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that what comes from the heart, 
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good or bad weather, evil, Or 
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Big difference. 
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But what about Jesus? 
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Jesus said this, in Matthew, 
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A good man out of a good 
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Of his heart brings forth, good 
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evil. 
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things in Matthew chapter 15 and
verse 8, I'm going to notice two

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passages here that Jesus said 
these people draw near to me 

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with their mouth and honor me 
with their lips but their heart 

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is far from me, then verse 9. 
So in vain, they do worship me 

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teaching as doctrines the 
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I love things about this Jesus 
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scribes and Pharisees. 
I'm not going to go into the 

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context or the history behind 
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I want to make one point. 
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heart is far from me and he also
said they worship me. 

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You know, what this tells me it 
tells me that it's entirely 

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possible for someone to be going
through the acts of worship and 

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going through the motions. 
But their heart is far from God.

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Have you ever stopped to 
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You can be in the assembly? 
You can be going through the 

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items of worship. 
God has you in the Pew but he 

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doesn't have your heart. 
You know what God wants, he 

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wants your heart. 
And if you only are occupying a 

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seat and punching a Time clock, 
that's not good enough. 

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God wants to Heart. 
He wants you, he wants all of 

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that. 
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word heart, that Greek word is 
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the New Testament. 
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sense, in some things and a 
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But, listen, when it is not used
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means this it means the mind or 
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So in these passages were 
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one thing, but they don't mean 
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We can praise God. 
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what's the Bible say about that 
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Passage Isaiah 29:13. 
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much as these people drawn, with
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their mouth and honor me with 
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But have removed their hearts 
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And their fear toward me is 
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men. 
Notice this, what are they 

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doing? 
They're drawing nigh to me with 

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their mouth, they're honoring me
with their lips but they've Move

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their hearts are far from me. 
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new King James renders that with
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talks about a choice. 
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that. 
It's an act of the person. 

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It's an act of the person that 
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but they removed their heart 
from God, God wants your heart, 

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have you given him your heart, 
you know, in the days of Joe and

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Joe wrote these things, God's 
call to them to repent for their

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sins. 
Went unanswered. 

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But you know, there's still time
there still time in our life to 

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repent of things that we do 
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And that's what we're talking 
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And there's time to do that, 
there's time to be forgiven and 

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there's time to be better in the
future than we've been in days 

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gone by as our brother parade 
But oftentimes the call of God 

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for repentance and change in our
life goes on answered, just like

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it did in the day of ago. 
God wants your heart. 

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One preacher said it like this. 
He said, will we give our hearts

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to God so that he may make of 
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What he Wills? 
Will we in humility kneel before

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the father of all men, and give 
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What is due to him? 
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conclusion in this little sermon
the phrase randhir hearts and 

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not your garments. 
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what it doesn't mean it doesn't 
mean that your outward Acts of 

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service to God don't matter. 
Some people look at this passage

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and they say what this means is,
it doesn't really matter what 

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you do. 
Outwardly all that matters is 

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that you have a good heart 
inwardly and have some sort of 

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relationship inwardly to God. 
That's not what this passage 

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means. 
What this passage is talking 

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about. 
Means this, the phrase render 

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hearts and not your garments. 
It means we must look inward to 

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make changes to our hearts 
before our actions on the 

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outside. 
Can be seen as a legitimate 

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exercise to serve. 
Get a change on the inside. 

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Got to change on the inside 
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Sometimes people struggle, they 
do. 

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In Matthew chapter 6 and verse 
21 where your treasure is there,

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your heart will be also. 
And let me just say this, if 

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you're having a problem with 
your heart, And you're 

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spiritually speaking, you're 
having heart trouble, maybe it's

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because you're having a treasure
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If your treasure is worldly 
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pleasures of life, if your 
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pleasures of life, if your 
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world and not spiritual things, 
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have some problems, Jesus 
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treasure is there, your heart 
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And by the way, if your 
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we're laying up for ourselves, 
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spiritual things mean more to us
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Everything else falls into place
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So if we have a heart problem, 
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is. 
Where is your treasure? 

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And what's important to you in 
your life, I'm finished. 

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Now I just want to say this and 
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understand that we live in a 
time, that is difficult, and I 

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understand there's distractions 
all around us. 

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I get it. 
I understand that and maybe 

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there's distractions around our 
young people that are worse than

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ever before and harder on them 
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or at any other time that we 
grew up, I get that and we may 

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be having some difficult times 
moving forward that even makes 

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it more difficult. 
I don't know how it'll be for my

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grandkids one day, I don't know,
but I will tell you this, the 

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pattern is true in the pattern 
Rings true today and it's the 

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same thing that we talked about 
all the way back in the Book of 

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Joel. 
If you get your heart right, and

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you get your treasure right. 
Jesus said your heart will be in

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the right place and you'll be 
able to make those proper 

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decisions in your life that you 
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And you'll be able to stand up 
against The Temptations and 

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distractions that are all around
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And you can live successfully 
The Christian Life, all the days

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of your life. 
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One day and one day, it'll be 
worth it when we make Heaven one

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day. 
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