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New year . =. New heart. Come to yourself. How do you feel at the end of 2013? Is there any feeling of guilt? Why?. Luk 15:17 “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!.
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New year = New heart
Come to yourself • How do you feel at the end of 2013? • Is there any feeling of guilt? • Why? Luk 15:17 “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
Tonight is to can you wrestle with God Evaluate yourself Be honest Be strict Gen 32:26 And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.” But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!”
Whom do you want to be? • Mat 9:13 • “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
Phl 3:13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
Why the heart? • 2Sa 24:10 And David's heart condemned him after he had numbered the people. • Pro 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence,For out of it spring the issues of life
Examine your heart • Psa 26:2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me;Try my mind and my heart.
Heart investigations through the bible 2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
Could the old heart be treated? • Mat 9:16 “No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse.
New heart • Eze 36:26 “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. • Psa 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,And renew a steadfast spirit within me
God • Deu 6:5 • “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. Jhn 14:24 “He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me.
My family • Eph 5:33 • Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Others • Jhn13:34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another
Myself • Luk 9:25 • “For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?