Words From The Word Of God
A topical, and expositional study from the Word of God, in order to Glorify and Exalt our Great God and our Savior Jesus Christ; that we may reach the world with the Gospel, and grow in the Grace and knowledge of Him.. Grace and Peace to all, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.(Isaiah 52:7) "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!"(Isaiah 55 10-11) 10) "For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:"11) "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it."(John 3:16)“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”(John 14:1-7) 1)"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me."2)"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you."3)"And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."4)And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know."5)"Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?"6)"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."7)"If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him."(Romans 10 :9-10;13) 9)"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."10)"For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."13)"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
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Words From The Word Of God
Christ in Our Hearts: The Scriptural Truth
Something profound happens when we truly surrender to Jesus—He doesn't just save us from afar, He makes His home within us. But is this biblical truth or merely a sentimental Christian concept? Today we dive deep into Scripture to examine what God's Word actually teaches about Christ dwelling in believers' hearts.
The heart, described as "deceitful above all things and desperately wicked" in Jeremiah, requires nothing short of divine intervention. We explore both Old and New Testament passages revealing how God promised and fulfilled the miraculous transformation of human hearts from places of darkness to dwelling places for His presence.
From Ezekiel's prophecy of God giving a "new heart" to Paul's declaration of "Christ in you, the hope of glory," we discover an unbroken scriptural thread affirming this transformative reality. Jesus Himself promised to "make our abode" with those who love Him, while Paul explicitly states that Christ dwells "in your hearts by faith."
This isn't just theological theory—it's the essence of salvation itself. When Christ, through the Holy Spirit, takes residence in our hearts at the moment of genuine repentance and faith, we become new creations. The stony, rebellious heart becomes responsive to God, not through human effort but through divine grace.
Whether you've walked with Jesus for decades or are just exploring faith, this episode invites you to marvel at the incredible work of God who takes our desperately wicked hearts and transforms them into His dwelling place. Have you experienced this heart transformation that only Christ can bring?
John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
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Hello and welcome to this another edition of Words from the Word of God. Today we step away briefly from Matthew, chapter 5, our continued study there into an issue that has been brought to my attention several times, and I have prayed over this and I've meditated upon it and I really feel like I need to address it Now. As we begin, I want to state this I do not like to have conflict, a disagreement of opinion, especially as we shine, are supposed to shine the light and love of our heart into a lost and dying world. We're to be the salt of the earth, that preservative, that wound healing. You know that we bring the gospel of Jesus Christ into the hearts of all lost sinners, but there's an issue that's come up and that's the statement that those who preach that Christ comes into our hearts and our lives is not scriptural.
Speaker 1:In the most recent weeks, especially maybe as early as a month ago, I heard the first person speaking on this and I'm not here. Please understand me. I'm not here to bring conflict, I'm not here to argue over Scripture. No, what we want to do is to speak the truth of Scripture, to rightly divide the word of scripture and when false statements are what I perceive, according to the word of God what it says. According to the word of God, when I perceive something so false being said, I believe it's our uh, our our position that we need to address that, but we don't need to address that with our opinion, and that's not what I'm going to do. I'm not going to draw one verse of scripture out and make it fit what I want to say. No, what we're going to do is take a scripture today in context and we'll get into this in a moment but we're going to take it in context. We're going to support that scripture with other scriptures from the Old and the New Testaments to show, in fact, that Christ at the moment, a person who is lost and undone and lost, and their hearts are deceitfully wicked, the very moment that they repent of their sins and they turn to God by placing all of their faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ redemptive work of Jesus Christ on Calvary's cross, he, in fact, by the working of the Holy Spirit and by his transformative power, finds his presence and his dwelling in our hearts and in our lives. It is a truth of the word of God and we must understand this, and I pray that you would, as we go through this, pray for me, that I will do this in love. I will shine the light of Christ. He will shine his light through me today that the Holy Spirit would open our hearts to understanding and unity in the body of Christ instead of any division. And that is not what I'm trying to create here today. Please understand that.
Speaker 1:But today we approach what I see as a glorious truth that is central to the gospel of Jesus Christ the very reality that he enters the hearts of believers at the moment of repentance and saving faith and transforms them or us from within. This is not and I say this, this is not a human invention, nor an over-interpretation of scripture. However, it is the very essence of salvation as revealed in God's Word. Very important. It is the very essence of salvation as revealed in God's Word.
Speaker 1:And now, like I said, there's some who are falsely claiming that the idea of Christ coming into our hearts is absent from the Bible. They argue that this concept is unfounded or metaphorical at best. But, as we will see today, both from the Old Testament and New Testament, that they resound with the glorious message of the heart's transformation through Christ Jesus, and Christ Jesus alone and the working of the Holy Spirit at the new birth. Let us set aside all doubt right now. Let's set it aside all doubt, all arguments, and let's examine the scriptures, let's examine the word of God in their full context and let's marvel. Instead of conflict, instead of division, let's unify and marvel at the incredible work of God in making the desperately wicked human heart, the deceitful human heart, that place that was so broken and so dark by the inheritance of the sin nature, from Adam, from the Garden of Eden, that death and sin entered into the world of humanity at that point. And our hearts are darkened, we are dead in our sins, trespasses and sins, and it is only through Christ that he can quicken us, he can bring us back to life, he can bring light into our darkness. And that God, through this marvelous and remarkable event, he can make our deceitful and desperately wicked heart into his dwelling place. Deceitful and desperately wicked heart into his dwelling place.
Speaker 1:But before proceeding even further, let's root this message in God's word. Turn with me if you will. I'm already there, so I'll give you a moment to turn as I'm speaking. Turn to Ezekiel, chapter 36, verse 26 and 27. Let's read this together as we begin the message, we must have the foundation of the word of God as we speak through this message. Now we're not going to focus on this one verse, as I said. We're going to focus on many verses as we take a journey through scripture to show that in fact, christ does come into our hearts and into our lives and the very essence of our being, our soul and spirit.
Speaker 1:At the moment of salvation, true salvation, the word of god says right here in ezekiel, chapter 36, verse 26 and 27, as we begin, he says a new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you a heart of flesh and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and you shall keep my judgments and do them. Of course. Speaking to the Israelites in their exile into Babylon, ezekiel is speaking, and this passage here to me encapsulates the divine promise of heart transformation, a promise fulfilled, spoken of by the Lord, god, jehovah, god, here in Ezekiel, in the Old Testament, to the Israelites, the Jewish people, his people that he brought up out of Egypt and the next generations that came along after that first generation died off in the wilderness. They've already crossed into the promised land. They've been there for a while. They rebelled against God. They've been taken into 70 years of Babylonian captivity. So God gives them this promise of heart transformation, a promise that's fulfilled in the person and presence of, and the sacrificial death, burial and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, jesus Christ, and through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, christ comes in and finds his place in our hearts, the word of God.
Speaker 1:As we begin here today, let's look at the definition Hebrew and Greek definition of the word heart or the phrase the heart. Okay, the Hebrew word for heart and I'm probably going to get this wrong, I am not a scholar by any means, but it's L-E-B and the Hebrew is leb or lieb, as I pronounce it, Like I said, I probably pronounced it wrong or Lib, as I pronounce it and, like I say, I'll probably pronounce it wrong, but it signifies the inner self, including the mind, the will, emotions and moral character. In other words, it's the very essence, the spiritual essence, the soul, essence of our very being. That is the Old Testament definition. It is central, it is the central aspect of a person, in other words, where decisions are made and relationships with God are formed. Did you hear that last part? Where decisions are made and the relationships with God are formed, as we read.
Speaker 1:I'll give you a couple of references from the Old Testament of the heart as it's used according to scripture In Jeremiah 17, 9,. The heart represents the seat of sin and deceit, highlighting humanity's fallen nature. He says the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? How factual is that? In Ezekiel, chapter 36, 26, as we just read, the heart symbolizes the spiritual transformation promised by God, fulfilled in Christ. A new heart, he says, verse 26,. Read with me again. A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you. Now listen to verse 27, the very first part, and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and you shall keep my judgments and do them. There is no way that we can do that. There is no way that we can fulfill this in human effort alone. There is no way that we can change our heart.
Speaker 1:Let's look at the condition of the heart. Let's look at the you know well. Let's look first at the Greek definition before I want to get ahead of myself. So the Greek word for heart is cardia. That is where I think we get our word cardiovascular or cardiac, so on and so forth, dealing with the heart, of the actual muscle that's in our chest. And that's not what we're speaking of, that's not what scripture. When you read the word heart or see that phrase the heart in scripture, it is not referring to the muscle that beats in our chest. No, it's referring to the deepest recesses. That's what we're looking at the deepest recesses of our being, our soul and our spirit.
Speaker 1:The word here, kardia in the New Testament, in the Greek, encompasses the inner self, much like leb or leave in Hebrew, but adds an emphasis on the seat of consciousness and spiritual life. It is where belief listen closely, it is where belief and faith and transformation takes root at the moment of salvation. Romans, chapter 10, 10,. The heart is central to salvation. She says for the apostle Paul writing to the believers there in Rome and his epistle to them, romans 10, 10,. He says for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness. So if the heart transformation of Christ does not come into our heart, how can we believe unto righteousness, so that the heart. Transformation of christ does not come into our heart, how can we believe unto righteousness because we have no righteousness in ourselves? So that speaks of a very transformation, a divine transformation that has to take place. Not only that, but jesus and matthew are what we've been studying, the gospel of matthew we just covered this the other day in the last broadcast. Matthew, chapter 5, verse 8.
Speaker 1:The heart here is the dwelling place of purity. Jesus says blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God Desperately, definitely saying that there is a transformation that takes place because there is no purity in and of us, of ourself. We have no ability to do that. That cannot be of human effort, because we must examine the natural state of the heart According to the Word of God. The Bible provides an unflinching diagnosis of the human heart in its natural state it's deceitful, it's wicked and estranged from God.
Speaker 1:Jeremiah, chapter 17, verse 9. Again, the heart is deceitful, above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it? We don't even know our own heart. The word deceitful here in this verse describes the heart that is fundamentally crooked, treacherous, a clear picture of humanity's fallen condition following adam's sin in genesis, chapter 3, at the beginning go all the way back and read that, you'll see where the we, where paul says and I believe it's romans, chapter 5, verse 12 and sin and death came and entered into the world, entered in upon all men. That darkness became, that light that was made there in God's image, in the Garden of Eden, fell when Adam and Eve rebelled against God, disobeyed God, and sin and death entered into humanity. And Adam being our forefather of all humanity, because all our family trees can be traced back to him, he is the cause of it. But we inherited that sin nature. We inherited that heart that is deceitful and wicked and greatly estranged from God.
Speaker 1:The apostle Paul will tell us that we are enemies against God, we are enemies against him. That means, and that word means we're entrenched in a place, that we are entrenched against God and his word and the truth of his word and the gospel of Jesus Christ. But let's move on. Jesus declares himself, our Savior declares. He says that. Excuse me for a second, one second. I'm going to turn my phone down so it don't go off. Jesus tells us, our Savior himself, from his own mouth, tells us Now, this is when the if I'm not mistaken, that's Mark, chapter 7, verse 21 and 23, the Pharisees and the scribes were complaining that his disciples were eating with unwashing hands and how that didn't go along with their rules and traditions and Jewish traditions that they had formed for so long and held over the people's head.
Speaker 1:So Jesus addresses this. He says for, he says for from within, from within out of what? The heart of men, the heart of men, what the heart of men, the heart of men, that's the heart of mankind, precede evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications and murder. Addressing a Jewish audience bound by ritualistic traditions, jesus exposes the very source of sin as internal, not external. He said it is not what goes into a man that defiles him, it's what comes out of the heart. And what did he say, comes out of our heart that needs transformation. Within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornication and murder.
Speaker 1:Basically, giving the long list of the things, how, and describing how our heart actually is. And this is how. This is not how man. This is not. Now understand this very important. This is not how man observes man's heart.
Speaker 1:This is how God, the divine, jehovah, god, jesus Christ, god in the, the flesh, sees the human heart, sees the thoughts and the intents of the heart. That's how his word reveals the thoughts and intents of our heart. It's a two-edged sword, cutting asunder to the dividing of the joints and marrow and the soul and spirit. That's the two-edged sword, the word of God, that exposes the deceitfulness it disposes, the desperately wicked part, the iniquity, those greatly despairing thoughts that we have that come across our mind, that come into our heart and come into our life and we're like Lord, forgive me for even thinking that that's what our heart and come into our life. And we're like lord, forgive me for even thinking that that's what our heart is.
Speaker 1:And it has to be transformed. It says genesis go all the way back to genesis, chapter six for five. And god saw this is right. Before the flood, he destroyed everything except noah and his family and the animals in the ark, and God saw that the wickedness of men was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. This depiction before the flood underscores the depth of humanity's corruption and the necessity listen closely the necessity of divine intervention, divine transformation. Not only does the word of God see, it doesn't only just give the negative, but it tells us that we need to be renewed in our hearts. The human heart need to be renewed in our hearts. The human heart, naturally deceitful and rebellious, is capable of transformation, not capable of transformation. Let me rephrase that. It is not capable of transformation through human effort. It requires notice. That word requires Notice. That word requires Divine renewal, as expressed in the cries and promises of Scripture.
Speaker 1:David, deeply convicted after his sin with Bathsheba and having her husband murdered in battle, acknowledges that only God can bring about a clean heart. He says create in me a clean heart, o God, and renew a right spirit. Where In his mind, in his outward appearance? No, he said create in me a clean heart, o God, and renew a right spirit within me. The term create here is the same create that. When it says there in genesis, 1, 1 and god created the heavens and the earth, it's by right meaning something creating something from nothing. So without the transformation of the divine transformation, our heart is nothing but damn, it is dark and it's on its way to hell. Used here in this scripture, it echoes God's creation of the universe.
Speaker 1:Emphasizing the divine transformation is nothing short of his miraculous act in christ jesus. Because we know these scriptures right here ezekiel 36, 26 again he says we're going to read this again because it's beautiful a new heart also will I give you. What did, what did uh david ask for? Creating me a clean heart and renew a right spirit wasn't asking. He's asking him for a new heart, a heart transplant, a heart transformation. So god, in ezekiel 36, that's the very thing that he promised. He said a new heart will I also, will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart, the hard heart, the dark heart of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh, one. And this is delivered to Israel during their exile. As I said before, this prophecy unveils God's promise to the new covenant that was coming. The new covenant that was coming. A heart transformed from the hardness and rebellion to responsiveness to his will, his ordinances, his commands and his love through his love.
Speaker 1:Let's move on and look at Christ's transformative work in the heart, according to scripture. Work in the heart, according to scripture, from wickedness to purity. Jesus said blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. In his sermon on the mountain and we covered this Jesus proclaimed that only the pure heart will enjoy communion with God. The Greek word pure here is being clean, untainted and morally upright Qualities that no human can attain apart from divine intervention, and that comes through repentance and faith. This is not something we're trying to lead to somebody from a formulated prayer, what's called the sinner's prayer. I believe that prayer has sent more people to hell than anything and I hate that if I'd offend you, but I don't apologize for it, because you can't pray an emotional, simple prayer without any repentance, without any change in your heart, and expect yourself to be saved and claim yourself as a born again. No, your life is completely transformed, your heart is completely transformed at the point of true repentance, true faith, saving faith in none other than Jesus Christ and his finished redemptive work and his blood shed on Calvary's cross. Transformation by divine work. Jeremiah 17, 9.
Speaker 1:Again, the heart is desperately wicked. This dire state underscores humanity's need for a Savior. Do you understand that we're looking at the negative today to show where God can bring us from in his son, why he sent his son to die at a place called Calvary, which we will celebrate starting as of today, going into Sunday, resurrection Day. We are going to celebrate that, that God had a purpose in sending his son to die that terrible death on Calvary's cross and to shed every drop of his precious blood there on the cross. And that was to cure, that was provide a savior for our desperately wicked heart.
Speaker 1:That nothing we could do can transform. There is no amount of works that you can do, no amount of self-righteous works that you can do can transform. There is no amount of works that you can do, no amount of self-righteous works that you can do. To transform your heart. It must come through repentance and faith, and none other than Jesus Christ. That's why David cried creating me a clean heart, recognizing that God alone clean heart, recognizing that God alone God only can purify the heart, only God himself. Divine transformation, only divine transformation. Ezekiel 36, 26,. A new heart, a new spirit is fulfilled. Who is it fulfilled in Christ? Who cleanses the heart through his spirit? Read with me, if you will, let's turn over there. Take me a minute to get there.
Speaker 1:Titus, chapter 3, verse 5. Titus, chapter 3, verse 5. I'm almost there. Turn with me. Chapter 3, verse 5. Not by works of righteousness, let's go back to verse 4. But after that the kindness and love of God, our Savior, toward man appeared. Not by works of righteousness. Let's go back to verse 4. Regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ, our Savior, that, being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Speaker 1:This is a faithful saying and these things I will that thou affirm constantly. Did you hear this? We need to affirm this constantly. We don't need to doubt the word of God. We don't need to bring doubt upon the word of God by saying something that's not scriptural and saying that Christ does not reside in our hearts. Saying that, well, let me get it right, okay, saying that Christ comes to live in our hearts is a false statement. That's what the opponents are saying. That is a statement that is not according to the truth of God's word. That's why the apostle Paul tells Titus here this is a statement that is not according to the truth of God's word. That's why the apostle Paul tells Titus here this is a faithful saying and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, constantly. We emphasize it confidently that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. Jesus promises his indwelling. John, chapter 14, verse 23.
Speaker 1:Listen closely to the words of our Savior. You want to know if Christ resides in our hearts. He says it right here If a man loved me and that means we've repented and received him by faith, we love him that much to trust that he is the Savior of the world. He is the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. God has bestowed his love. God has shed his love abroad in our heart that even while we were yet sinners, christ died for us. No one else Listen closely. And we we who he's referring to him, and the father, my father, his father, our father we will come unto him and make our abode with him. Where can he make his abode? In our hearts. Jesus here promises a personal and intimate indwelling of the triune God in the believer's life.
Speaker 1:Jesus gives this invitation in Revelation 3.20. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. What door? At our front door of our house. No, he comes to us through the Spirit, through the Holy Spirit, the drawing of the Holy Spirit. He says no man can come unto me unless the first Father first draw him, and that is by the convicting power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said when the Holy Spirit has come, he will convict, he will reprove. Convict the world of sin, of righteousness, of judgment of sin because they believe not on me. Of righteousness because they go to my Father and you see me. No more of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. It's the convicted power of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1:Through the preaching of the gospel, the apostle Paul will tell us faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. This verse here, where Jesus says behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in unto him and sup with him and he with me. That means he'll come in and have a relationship with us. He's inviting us, he's seeking us for this. This verse depicts Christ's invitation to fellowship, symbolizing his transformative presence. The only way that he could ever commune with us is through the holy spirit, his person and presence in our hearts, by the power of the holy spirit. And right there in john 14, 23, he said if we are, if we are obedient, we show that we love him and the father will love us and they will find their abode in our hearts. So we've got the holy spirit in dwelling us, we've got the jesus christ and the father in dwelling us. He says it right there.
Speaker 1:It's pretty clear in scripture, apostle paul's teaching on christ in dwelling romans 10, 9 and 10 10 excuse me, 10, 9, I got it wrong 10, verse 9 and 10. Excuse me, I'm only human. Bear with me that if thou will confess with thy mouth the lord jesus shall believe in thine heart that god had raised him from the dead. Thou shalt be saved. And read verse 10 with me. I gotta turn over there. I gotta turn back over there now. I just lost my place. Bear with me.
Speaker 1:We almost done romans 10, 8, 10, verse 9 and 10. Read with me. We almost done Romans 10, verse 9 and 10. Read with me. He says right here, but with. He says that if I shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be safer with the heart. What, with the heart, man believeth unto what Righteousness? Not a word that we've done, but all on Jesus, all about Jesus, all about Jesus. That's why we're so passionate about our Lord and Savior, for with the heart, man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession, repentance is made unto salvation, for the scripture saith Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed, for there is no difference between the Jew and Greek, for the same Lord, over all, is rich unto all, and who call upon his name. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, what Shall be saved, shall be saved. Then he said right there in verse 17. So then, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by what? The word of God Rightly dividing the word of God Rightly dividing the Word of God Rightly dividing it. Let's move on.
Speaker 1:Paul says in Ephesians 3, verse 17, that Christ may dwell in you, in your hearts, by faith. Paul explicitly here affirms that Christ resides in the believer's hearts, transforming it the result of Christ indwelling. 2 Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 17,. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things have become new. All things have become new.
Speaker 1:Colossians 1.27. Christ in you, the hope of glory. Praise God, the hope of glory, the transformative work not only of Christ, the holy spirit, his spirit. John, chapter 3, verse 5, and 6. Jesus says except a man be born again of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of god. The spirit initiates the process of spiritual rebirth, cleansing and renewing the heart to make it receptive to God's presence. How marvelous is that.
Speaker 1:Do you notice one thing? This is not anything of our effort, except for our humbling ourselves for a holy and righteous God and repenting of our sins and believing in the sacrifice, the blood sacrifice, the innocent sacrifice of Jesus Christ on Calvary's cross, where he paid our sin dead and full. It is of no effort of ours, it is not by our works, it is not by anything that we can do. There's no money that we can pay to earn it. It's all by grace, the word of God tells us. For by grace are you saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, that any man should boast. We have nothing to boast in because our hearts are deceitful and desperately wicked. And a very long way great chasm between our dark hearts and the holy and righteous God. But Jesus is the mediator, he's the one that bridged that great chasm.
Speaker 1:Titus, chapter 3, verse 5 again, not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy. He saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit. Here, when you receive Christ immediately. The very moment you receive Christ, not a second later, not a second too early. It's at the perfect time of God when he calls you into his saving gospel. Perfect time of God, when he calls you into his saving gospel and he draws you to the foot of the cross and you give your heart and life to Jesus Christ. That very moment the Holy Spirit indwells you, you're born again. You're born from above. You have that new birth. You become a new creation and cry. You become a new creation. Our hearts are transformed.
Speaker 1:Let's look at ezekiel 36, 27 again. I know I'm being repetitive, but we must look at these verses, not getting one verse and making it fit what I'm trying to say. No, what does the word of god say about this? And I think we've proven by the preponderance of the evidence of scripture that this is a true fact, that christ does in fact indwell us and come inside our hearts. The moment of salvation, he says and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statue. The only way we can do that is by the christ fulfilling all of the law, himself dying on the cross to pay for our sin debt and satisfying God's righteous judgment upon our sins in his own body upon the cross. He bore our sins on the cross, all of our sins, my sins, your sins, the sins of the whole world. That very moment, sin and Satan, darkness, was defeated in the grave. Because the grave couldn't hold him down, the grave couldn't hold him down, he, he was. He rose again the third day to defeat death on the grave. For you and I, that we might have life and that we might have it more abundantly. The Spirit empowers the believer to obey God, transforming the heart from rebellion to responsiveness.
Speaker 1:Folks, we've covered a great deal of scripture today. We've journeyed through the scripture to see that the human heart, once deceitful and wicked, becomes the dwelling place of Christ through his transformative power and through the work of the Holy Spirit. This is not a metaphor but a divine reality, testified by the prophets, by the apostles and by the Savior himself. To those who deny this truth, I ask you, I implore you, study the word of God carefully and prayerfully, with an open heart, for the invitation of Christ to transform everyone's heart is extended to all people. I'm not saying you're lost, I'm just saying there is an issue there. You're not seeing the truth of scripture. So pray that the Holy Spirit would open that up to you, and I'll pray for you and to those who believe. Let us rejoice in this great hope Christ in you, the hope of glory, the hope of glory.
Speaker 1:Sinner, friend, friend, if you're lost and undone, your, your heart is dark, it's deceitful. And you see that now the holy spirit is convicting you to be saved, to come to christ and place your repent and place your faith in him. All you have to do is pray a heartfelt prayer, not an emotional experience and go living in the world again. You must turn from the sins of the world. You must turn from the world, give all that up, turn completely to God by placing all of your trust and your faith in Christ and his finished redemptive work on Calvary's cross and his blood shed for the washing away of your sin. Cross and his blood shed for the washing away of your sin, and that he was resurrected on the third day and that he is the living Son of God, the resurrected Son of God, and you shall be saved. Call upon his name and you shall be saved. May we live as new creations reflecting his love, creations reflecting his love, purity and grace into a world that is in a desperate need of him, a desperate need of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:With this I close, and I say this message is not given in anger, it is given in love. It is the harsh desire of my heart to bring all people to the truth of God's word, through the truth of it. That's why we are just so adamant. That's why we're called words from the word of God, because it is all. It is the final authority on all things. God's word, the final authority. We can argue with it, but it changes not. It's enduring forever. It will not change, never, ever change. It's eternal. Thank you all so much for joining us today. I pray this has been a blessing to you. And if you felt conviction today, I pray this has been a blessing to you. And if you felt conviction today, I pray that you've given your heart and life to our Lord and Savior, jesus Christ. Thank you all again for joining me. I look forward to the next time we can share in a word from the Word of God. God bless.
