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Heavenly Heartburn

November 5, 2006

HEAVENLY HEARTBURN

Text: Luke 24:24-35

Introduction:

  1. Bible has a lot to say about  Hearts! Greek word is KARDIA, which we get:
    1. Cardiology – The study of the heart.
    2. Cardiologist – A heart specialist.
    3. Electrocardiograph – Electronic monitoring device for the heart
    4. Cardiac Arrest – A heart attack.
    5. Normal heart beats 70 times a minute 100,000 times a day – 40  million a year.
  2. Biblical Meaning of HEART is center of Life – Thought – Feeling – and Spirit.
    1. A.W. Tozer said God is more concerned with the state of people’s hearts than with the state of their feelings.”
    2. Do You Have Heavenly Heartburn?

 

 

I)      CONSIDER THE 2 EXTREMES IN THE TEXT

A)    FIRST – IS SLOW HEARTS Lk 24:25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

1)    Slow To Believe.  

2)    Slow To Understand.  

3)    Slow To Receive.

B)    SECOND – BURNING HEARTS.  Lk 24:32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scripture.

1)    Personal Encounter – “While he Talked”

2)    A Personal Illumination – “While He Opened The Scriptures”

II)    CONSIDER VARIOUS HEART CONDITIONS

A)    INDIFFERENT HEARTS – CARING HEARTS

B)    Hypocritical Hearts – Humble Hearts.

C)   WORLDLY HEARTS – SPIRITUAL HEARTS.

D)   Broken Hearts – Joyful Hearts.

E)    How Would You Describe Your Heart Condition Today

III)  WHAT BIBLE SAYS ABOUT THE HEART

A)    HEART IS WHAT THE LORD LOOKS AT.  1 Sam 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

B)    THE HEART NEEDS PREPARATION.

1)    Rehoboam Was Unrepentant Because He Had An Evil Heart.  2 Chr 12:14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.

(a)  He did not Serve the Lord because he did not Seek the Lord.

(b)  He  did not pray, as Solomon did, for wisdom and grace.

(c)  Made nothing of his religion because  he did not set his heart to it

2)    David Had Sinned But He Had A Repentant Heart.  Ps 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

(a)  He prays that, his sins being pardoned, he might have the comfort of that pardon.

(b)  David Asks not to be comforted until first he is cleansed

(c)  Ps 51:8 8 Says Make me to hear joy and gladness

(d)  David is  praying for a complete and effectual pardon.

C)   THE HEART IS DECEITFUL.  Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

D)   THE HEART CAN BE RENEWED!  Ezek 36:26 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 an heart of flesh. {A New Heart Of Love} 

1)    Does Your Heart Burn Today?

2)    Do You Love God With All Your Heart?

3)    Rom 10:9 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.

Written by Revhutch · Filed Under Message of the week 

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