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Reality Check: Can't I Just Follow My Heart?
October 15, 2024 · 43 min
Pastor John Mark discusses following your heart vs. following God’s principles and plan. He also presents ways to deal with this struggle we all face in daily life.
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The Deceitful Heart 0:00 Are you glad you're in God's house today? Yes. Amen. Give God's hand God a hand for that. Y'all sound so good. We have been, if you're new here, in a series entitled Reality Check over the last couple of weeks. And0:11 we've been taking some of the toughest topics that we, find our self faced with in today's environment and we really have dealt with them 1 at a time. We started off by talking about what is the0:23 biblical foundation and the biblical definition of marriage. Then we talked about salvation by faith. We talked about eternal security. A couple of weeks ago, we talked about a couple of weeks ago. We talked about voting0:33 our biblical values. Today I wanna talk to you about something else, your heart. Now this isn't gonna be a physical health lesson. I'm not gonna examine you for heart disease,0:44 although I'm gonna tell you according to God's word, we all have spiritual heart disease. It's very common for people today, to ask the question. This is the title of the series.0:57 Can I trust my heart? Well a lot of what you hear in today's environment is just follow your heart. Trust your heart.1:09 Believe your heart. Your heart won't lie to you. Well the truth is we all have spiritual heart disease. And the cure for a diseased heart is1:21 God's word and God's way. And so I don't know about you, but when you think about her heart, maybe you think about a book or you think about a movie or you think about something. I just Googled a couple of movies. How1:31 many of you remember, Braveheart? Wasn't that a great movie? We all want a Braveheart, but too many times we have, how many of you remember the movie Crazy Heart? Too many times we have1:43 Crazy Heart. Angel Heart, man, we all want an angel's heart. We'd all love that. It's interesting, you look at those movies that'll list it up there, it grossed a lot of money. That's the worst of all the movies.1:55 Alright, Angel Heart, because they said no 1 has an angel heart. What about wild at heart? Right? Someone said, well we have a child that is wild at heart or just just for you ladies, Places of the Heart with Sally2:07 Field. Now the truth is, our hearts will lie to us and our hearts are set in such a way that they are stricken with a disease, a2:18 spiritual heart disease called sin. So when we think on this topic today of can I just follow my heart or can I just trust my heart? Let's see what God's word has to say about it.2:30 Jeremiah chapter 17, here's what Jeremiah said about our heart. He says, the heart is deceitful and above all things beyond cure. If you2:42 want to take that Hebrew word deceitful, it simply means to be permanently stained. To lie. Or it can also be used2:54 as rough ground. So that 1 Hebrew word can be translated 1 of 3 ways. The heart is a liar. Can you trust the liar? Nope, so be careful if3:06 you're saying you're just gonna trust your heart. And that Hebrew word can also mean it is permanently stained. What's it stained with? Sin. So can you trust your heart?3:18 Be careful, it is stained with sin. The third 1 has the idea deal with rough ground or a rough patch. If you and I, especially in Jeremiah's day, were going to3:30 say, hey I'm gonna go from this city to that city. The path might be smooth. They might say, you're gonna be fine and your path is easy to see. But if I said I was gonna not go to that city, but I'm gonna go to this3:40 city, and there's cliffs and rocks and maybe lions and and other forms and robbers over there, you would use the same Hebrew word, be careful. That is a rough path. And3:52 here's what we know, if we follow our deceitful hearts, it could be a rough path. So let's read on. The heart is deceitful and above all things beyond cure, desperately4:04 sick, desperately wicked. Who can understand it? He says, I the Lord search the heart and examine the minds. So what is God saying? Listen, not only do I search your heart,4:16 but I examine your mind. And why is that? Because God knows and we should know how I think determines how I behave. Did you get that? He says I want to search your heart and4:27 examine your mind. Because if you put the 2 of those together, I will promise you the more you think about something or how much you dwell on something, what you believe will determine how you behave.4:40 What you think about will ultimately determine how you act. And so what is Jeremiah saying? And God's saying be careful if you just wanna say follow your heart. Your your heart will lead you down4:52 a stained path, a broken path, a lying path. So read on. He says, I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind to reward each person according to their conduct. Everybody5:04 say conduct. Conduct matters. A bunch of what we hear in our culture today is, you know, hey, the Jesus I know. How many of you have heard that phrase? You know, just5:16 love and this and that and how you live doesn't matter. What path you go down doesn't matter. And they will say something like, well conduct doesn't matter. Well the truth is, conduct doesn't5:27 matter as it relates to our salvation. But it does after our salvation. And so when we think about what I believe determines what I how I5:39 behave, then I want to understand how I behave matters. Why does it matter? Because God said it did. He says you and I will be rewarded based on our conduct. So5:51 read it again, I the Lord search the heart and the mind and reward each person according to their conduct. Conduct matters, how we live matters, according to what their deeds deserve.6:04 So here's a couple of thoughts. Do you think your heart will lead you astray? Absolutely. Why, because it's stained with sin. It'll lead you down rough paths. It6:15 will lie to you about something you should or shouldn't do. Then the second thought is, well if I choose to follow my line stained rough heart, what will6:27 happen? I'll find myself, and we can see the results all the way through God's word. I can find myself brokenhearted. I can find myself pursuing sin or6:38 lust and falling into failure to sin. I can find myself if I just follow my heart and ignore the warning signs, then I'll find myself in bad relationships6:50 or I'll break the good relationships. I'll find myself if I follow my stained heart, my rough heart, my lying heart, I'll find myself at the end of the day with emotional scars God never wanted me to have to begin7:02 with. Or perhaps I'll find myself following my heart to financial ruin? Anybody ever gone out and say hey we're just gonna go look for a car?7:15 And you come home with a car? You ever say, I'm just going to go look for a boat? And then you come home with a boat? What happens? You get in there and7:27 all of a sudden your heart says, you know, that's really a good price. And it's not that bad and your family will love it and you end up coming home and it is great7:40 except for those next 60 months of a payments. Because your heart in the moment lied to you and said, this is a good decision. And financially later you're going, that was7:52 a horrible decision. And your heart goes and hides. Says, I wasn't even there. And the result is this, when we follow our heart and we break relationships or fall into lust or8:04 fall into sin or end up with emotional scars or go to financial ruin, what happens is the result, once we are caught, the result is we lie. We lie8:15 to cover ourselves or deceive ourselves. There are people out there, they're actually, they study lies, alright? Not listen to them, I mean they're liologists I guess. They study lies. And there are8:27 different levels of lies that we tell. The first level you all know and we all do it from time to time, is the white lie. It's that lie that you haven't been caught in something, someone just asked you a question and you8:38 like really don't want to tell them the truth because they don't want to hear the truth, you can't handle the truth. So you say, yeah you look good in that, right? How many of you know that? That's really, that's a white8:47 lie. You're not meaning any, you're not covering up any sin. You just don't want to hurt someone's feelings. But then the second level of lies is when we get to step up and we get caught doing something so I lie so I8:58 will make myself look better. That they say, someone will come say hey did you say or did you do and your immediate response is uh-oh, what I did9:10 or what I said makes me look bad so I'm going to lie to make myself look better. Then it goes beyond that, sometimes we just flat out get caught and I'm not lying to to9:22 make myself look better, I'm lying because I want to get out of trouble. I absolutely, I just don't want, yes I've been caught, but I'm gonna lie, I'm gonna give all kinds of excuses. And then there's a next level of9:34 lying, that once you're really caught, alright, and you've told a lie to try to get out of the trouble you've been caught, then the next lie is you shift the blame. How many of you have more than 19:46 kid? You know this well. You ever caught 1 of your kids red handed and their response is but, point it to sister or point it to brother.9:58 They're shifting blame or shifting the responsibility sometimes when we get caught because we followed our lying lying hearts down a stained path, a rugged path or a lying path, we10:10 get caught. Then I want to lie and shift the blame to someone at yeah but they did this or yeah but they did that or yeah this was their fault or that fault, their fault. The10:22 worst form of lying, this is almost moving to the pathological, when people just consistently lie for personal gain or personal power. People do it all the10:34 time. That this just becomes a habit of lying so they can make themselves look better, so they can have personal power, or have personal gain, or push their own agendas, so lies just flow easily out of their mouth.10:46 But the lies don't start in our mouth, they ultimately start in our deceitful and lying heart. So I want to ask and answer a couple of questions about our heart today, and then give us a path to10:58 help purify our hearts in the days ahead. Thought number 1, why is my heart so deceitful? If Jeremiah and God say our hearts are deceitful, the simple11:10 answer, write this down, hopefully you have your app open, is the word sin. That just means missing the mark. Look at what it says in Romans chapter 3 verse 23. It says for all have sinned and11:22 fallen short of the glory of God. Every 1 of us. That that sin affects each and every 1 of us, we all struggle with it. You say, alright Pastor, what does it mean my my deceitful heart leads me11:34 to sin and it has affected my sin? Well the best example I can give and I'll give you a couple of them, is go back to the Garden of Eden, all the way back to the Garden of Eden. We are all11:45 basically heirs of Adam and Eve. But here you have, if there was ever going to be a couple that got it right, it was that couple. Then Adam and Eve lived in the garden11:57 and in the garden, they were free to eat of anything and everything throughout the entire garden. But go read the story. It says in the middle of the garden, there was12:09 1 tree that they were told not to eat from. Well you know the end of the story, right? They basically ate of the tree that was sin, that was missing the mark. Now let's step back a little bit.12:21 I think it's important that they put the idea that that 1 tree is in the middle of the garden. Why? I think it shows to us that Adam and Eve walked by all the other abundance they have12:33 in their life. All the other good trees they could have eaten from, all the other good fruit they could have had, all because their heart drew them to that 1 tree. Think about it.12:45 Doesn't that happen in our lives? How many of you, be honest, how many of you are blessed? I mean, you just step back, that doesn't mean you don't have something to whine about, you're blessed.12:57 But our heart will draw us, listen to this, to walk past all of the good things in my life and all the great things in my life and pursue 1 thing I don't have.13:09 And my heart will tell you that is ultimately what you need. And your heart will lie to you and blind you in such a way that you think, I will never have joy, I will never be happy unless I eat of13:21 that tree. When in reality, God is saying look at all the other blessings, look at all the other trees, look at all the other acres you could enjoy all throughout the garden. But13:33 instead, our heart draws us to walk to the 1 thing we can have and ignore the abundance and the love of our family and this or that. So child of God, understand13:44 that your heart will lie to you. And it will also blind you. Your heart will lie to you and blind you so you can't see all the good things. You can only see the thing that13:56 you lack. What about a guy in the old testament named Samson? If you go look at Samson, man, he seems to have great parents. He took a Nazarite14:08 vow. Apparently he was strong and he was handsome. He had everything in the world. But even when his family began to give him advice, he ignored their advice14:20 and followed his heart to his passion. And you would think and if you read, go read Samson's story, he would follow his heart to his passion. He would go after the tree he shouldn't have had and he should14:32 have celebrated the abundance of what he did have, but he listened to his lying heart, had blinders on, and he went after this person, and then he went after this person, and went after this person. And if you just read14:42 the story, it's such a tragedy. Because after every mistake, you, if you don't know the full story, your thought is maybe he learned his lesson. And14:54 then he follows his lion heart again. And then you hope maybe he learned his lesson, and then he follows his lion heart again. And if you read all the way to the end, what finally15:06 happens? Because he followed his divided and deceitful and lying heart, he ended up going down the rough path that ultimately led to his death. What about the children of15:18 Israel? Think about the children of Israel. They have been in in slavery in Egypt for centuries, and God shows up through Moses, leads15:29 them out of Egypt in slavery toward the promised land. They go through and see the miracle of all miracles as they walk through the Red Sea and the Egyptian soldiers15:41 are swallowed up behind them. They journey a few days journey beyond that Red Sea. Moses stops the children of Israel, he goes up on the mountain and the people begin to listen to their15:53 heart. They begin to say, you know what, we if we're really gonna worship the 1 true heart, 1 true God, we need us an idol. And so they built a golden calf. You say16:05 why would they build a golden calf? Because everybody else had 1. And everybody else worshiped 1. Go read the story in Exodus chapter 32. Says why did you do it? Because all the children of16:16 Israel said everybody else has a golden calf that they worship, so we want 1 too. But listen folks, let's don't think that it's just Adam and Eve that will walk by our abundance for the 1 thing I shouldn't16:28 have. Let's not think it's just Samson, that time after time that has given God's grace but never learns a lesson. Child of God, let's don't ever think it was just the children of Israel who16:40 worship something else because others do. How often do we do the same thing? And man, your lying heart and my lying heart will say, you know what? Yeah they don't go to worship, but boy they sure got a nice this16:52 or they sure got a nice that. And all of a sudden we're drawn to worship what they worship. Why? For the same reason the children of Israel did it. Because others were doing it.17:04 Or or go to the New Testament. Remember a guy named Judas? Judas was chosen by Jesus. He was 1 of the 12. He spent 3 years17:16 with Jesus, watching Jesus heal, feed, make the lame walk and the blind see, listen to all those amazing sermons, even settle in the Sermon on the17:28 Mount, watch Jesus walk on water, calm the storms, and there was something in Judas's heart that did a calculation.17:40 I can have Jesus or 30 pieces of silver. Now I know what you're saying in this room and everybody online, you're immediately saying take Jesus. Right?17:52 But there was something in his heart that said, you mean I can get 30 pieces of silver. I'll take the silver. See if we aren't careful, we can be just like18:04 Judas If we follow our heart, we can be just like Samson. We can be just like the children of Israel. We can be just like Adam and Eve. So what's wrong withSalvation and Overcoming Sin 18:16 my sinful heart? It's called sin. My deceitful heart is called sin. Number 2, how can I overcome my sinful heart? That's called salvation. Let me show that to you. Go back to Romans chapter 3, let's walk it through. How18:28 do I gain salvation? Let me just show you what Paul says in Romans chapter 3 verse 22. He says, this righteousness if given through faith in Jesus Christ to all, everybody say all,18:41 to all who believe. How is God's righteousness given to us? By faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile. Now in our mindset, we don't get that18:53 idea of Jew and Gentile. But in those days, the Jews thought to themselves as those were people that were close to God and the Gentiles were way away from God. Alright? And so here's what we know, is the gospel19:04 is for those who are close to God and those who are far off. For us, we might think not Jew and Gentile, those who grew up in church and those who didn't. Those who grew up in church might be close to God or closer19:16 to God. Those who didn't would be like the Gentiles. They grew up way away from God, but I love what he says. There is no difference between the Jew and the gentile, all come by faith. Look at it says19:28 verse 23, for all have sinned, this is what I read a few minutes ago, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Every 1 of us is sinful, and all are justified freely19:40 by his grace through the redemption. What does redemption mean? It simply means a payment that is made to liberate a slave. A payment that is made19:52 to liberate a slave that came to him by Jesus Christ. So here's what we know, we're all sinners, cannot save ourselves. God loved us so much that instead of requiring we20:04 pay for our sins, He inserted His son in the salvation process. Jesus paid the price and so His price was paid on our behalf. That's that theological word20:15 redemption that we see, that He redeemed us from slavery to sin and bondage to sin. Continue to read, verse 25. God presented Christ as the sacrifice of20:27 atonement through the shedding of his blood to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness. From time to time, people will say I just can't wrap my head20:39 around. Why God would allow his son to die on the cross for your sins and my sins? Because he's holy and righteous. If you and I just all of a sudden20:51 for the next couple of weeks or months became court observers, we just find ourselves within Collin County or Dallas or somewhere, maybe even the Supreme Court, we found ourselves watching these court21:02 proceedings. It was just a bunch of 1 murder trial after another murder trial with the same judge up there and they would come in, they would show video evidence, they would give all the evidence and you're clearly21:13 sitting there going, you know this guy's guilty or this girl's guilty and that judge says boy you're guilty, but yeah you're okay. You're okay. We would sit back and go wait, what? This is an unrighteous21:25 judge. This is an unjust judge. That's why it says God sent his son to die on the cross so that he might be righteous. What does that mean? Is21:37 that listen, God looked at your sin and my sin. And in his holiness and justice and righteousness says someone has to pay for that. Hey, if I pay for my own sins,21:49 that's justice. If God pays for my sins through his son, that's called grace. And so as you think about this passage, why do we receive Jesus Christ by22:00 faith as our savior and lord? Because he is the redemption, the payment for my sins that offers me the opportunity to by faith receive the gift of22:12 eternal life. Continue to read. And because of his forbearance, he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished. Let me just take a little aside. What is he saying? See the children22:24 of Israel are saying alright, but Jesus died today. They were they were asking the question, Paul what about all the Old Testament saints? How are their sins paid for?22:36 And so Paul says listen, because in his forbearance or patience, he left the sins committed beforehand unpunished. What does that mean? In the Old Testament before Jesus, the children of Israel had what we22:48 call a sacrificial system. They would go down to the temple, they would sacrifice some sort of animal, they would shed the blood, understanding that they are sinful and need a23:00 sacrifice. Go to the book of Hebrews, Hebrews said day after day, the priest kept on making sacrifice after sacrifice, none of which could pay for the price of sin. So what did23:12 the sacrificial system in the old testament do? It looked forward to Jesus Christ, who is the ultimate sacrifice. So he says yes, until Jesus died,23:24 all the old testament sins were unpunished. But when Jesus died on the cross, he was the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world. All the sins before23:36 Christ and all the sins of the saints after Christ. And so as you think about that pattern, God did this so he could be righteous and just. So let's read on. And he did it23:48 to demonstrate his righteousness at this time, so to be just in the 1 who justifies those who have faith in Jesus Christ. Alright, so the key is faith in Jesus Christ.24:01 How can I overcome my sinful and deceitful heart? It's called salvation. Simple, just admit you're a sinner. Acknowledge just like everybody else, I'm just like Adam and24:13 Eve, I'm just like Samson, I'm just like the children of Israel, I'm just like David, I'm just like this person, I'm just like believe that Jesus died on the cross, was buried, rose again the third day?24:25 Receive him as your savior, make him the lord of your life, and Jesus says you will be saved. Alright so why is my heart sinful or deceitful? Sin. How do I overcome my24:37 deceitful heart? That's called salvation. Then this, why do I still struggle with sin? Alright, if I've been saved and I've overcome my sin with24:48 salvation, how come I still struggle with sin? It's called my sin nature. That we are made up of body and spirit. I won't go into that a lot, but here is reality.25:00 As long as I am in my flesh, there is a sin nature that dwells in my heart. Notice what Paul says in Romans chapter 7. He says, I don't even know by by the way, when you come to Romans25:12 chapter 7, Paul is not a newbie Christian anymore. He's not a new saint. This isn't right after the road to Damascus. Paul has been doing a lot of great things,25:24 already writing books, he's been planting churches, he's talking about worship, he's talking about everything. And all of a sudden right here in Romans chapter 7, this super saint Paul says, I still struggle25:37 because my heart is divided. And you're gonna see in Romans chapter 7 verse 15, he says, I don't even understand what I do. He says, for what I want to do, I do not25:48 do. But what I hate, that's what I do. Verse 16, and if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. In other words, we need rules. Verse 17, he says,26:00 as it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is in my sin26:12 nature. Stop right there. Paul is saying that even though I've been saved by grace, I still struggle with sin because I have that sin nature that lives within me. Does that make sense? See, when26:24 I am saved, there's a theological word called justification. That means when I am saved by faith, I receive a favorable court verdict26:37 that all your sins are forgiven. However, there's another theological term called sanctification. Justification removes the penalty of sin,26:48 Sanctification helps me grow in my strength to resist sinning. And I do that with God's word and God's spirit, and so that's the journey he's saying. He's saying listen, I am struggling with my27:00 sanctification, why? Because even though I want to do some good things, I don't do those. And I don't want to do bad things but I do those. He says why? It's the sin that lives in me.27:12 So here's the reality folks, since Adam and Eve, we have all suffered from a sin nature being involved in our lives. And so notice as we read on, as it is, it is no longer27:24 I myself, I'm in verse 17, who do it but it is sin living in me. For I know that the good thing, no good thing in itself dwells in me, that that is in my sin nature. Look, for I have the desire to do what27:36 is good, but I can't carry that out. Look at verse 19, for he says I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do. This27:48 is what I keep on doing. Here's a super saint talking about the struggle that he has with his sin nature. His deceitful heart,28:00 that his heart just consistently says, you know I know God's word says go this way, but you'll have more fun if you go that way. And Paul says, man I struggle with that. When it comes to our our28:11 deceitful heart, what about in the Old Testament? Remember a guy named David? Boy, David the little shepherd boy? When the prophet went out and went to Jesse's house and said, hey God's28:23 told me that that that that the next king in Israel is gonna come from your house, and they look at all the other sons and God rejects, rejects, and all of a sudden brings in David. Remember what God said?28:36 Man looks on the outward appearance, but I look at the heart. Boy, there was something good about David's heart that God took notice of. Fast forward, David is28:48 called a man after God's own heart. But in between those 2 things, David at 1 point, in the middle of all of his abundance, living in29:00 the palace, having everything you could possibly imagine, looks down and sees a tree, her name's Bathsheba, that he doesn't have.29:12 And instead of celebrating his abundance and join his palace, his heart says, you deserve that. And here29:24 this man of God follows his divided, deceitful heart to leave all of the abundance he had29:36 for what he destroyed himself with. Man, as we think about our minds, boy, if David could struggle with that, if if Paul could struggle with that, what about us? And then when we sin, what do29:48 we do? We can either repent and confess it or we can rationalize it. Yeah, but I'm not as bad as everybody else, or you know that sin's kind of a sin of a century ago.30:00 We compromise our ethics, we do whatever we want. But here's the key, we want to make sure that we are living in such a way that we are constantly saying no to our deceitful heart. And yes to God's30:12 word and God's way. So here's number 4, alright. So what's the problem with my my heart sin? How to get how to overcome my sinful heart? That's called salvation. Why do I still struggle with30:24 sin? That's called my sin nature. So how can I overcome or how can I develop a strategy to overcome my sinful heart? Let me give you a strategy, right? We all struggle with it. Doesn't30:35 matter how young, how old you are, whether you're a male or female, whether you're in person or online, we all struggle with our sinful heart. Look at this strategy. Look at Psalm 86 verse 11. Really a couple of30:47 points of the strategy come right out of this these 2 verses. He says, teach me your way. In other words, I need to read God's word. Teach me your way. Are you daily in God's word?30:59 Every time we do a new series right now, we're in the middle of it. Our Billy Graham daily devotion. We do a devotion every time with every series. Why? Because we want you in the word. So if you and I are gonna handle31:11 and resist our sinful heart, the strategy starts with teach me your way Lord, that I might rely on your faithfulness. Number 2, I am going to ask God to give me an undivided31:23 heart. You said, well you see that right there. Right there, he says give me an undivided heart. So number 1, I am gonna get in God's word, I'm gonna read God's word because here's what I understand, what I believe31:33 determines how I behave. If I know God's word, then I will know God's way. So I wanna do what? I wanna sit under God's word, I wanna read God's word, I wanna hear God's word, and then I want to pray that God31:46 would give me an undivided heart. Cry out to him. God give me a heart that desires righteousness over unrighteousness, sinlessness over over sinfulness, that I may31:57 fear your name. Here's the third thing, worship. He says, I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart. Man, part of the way we get over our32:09 divided heart is we make a commitment. I am not gonna be like the children of Israel and spend my weekends worshiping my golden calf. Regardless of how many calves they have or people they have, we want32:21 to be a people that worship God. He says, I will praise you lord my God with all might, notice that word heart, and then glorify your name. What's the difference between praise and glory?32:33 Alright praise is what I do when I come together with God's people, when we worship together, we celebrate God's word, we study God's word. How do I give God glory? How I live.32:46 When we leave here, are we following our lying heart? Are we following God's word? Are we moving in a sinful sinful path? Are we walking according to God's way? You say,32:57 pastor, it's been a great message to have a year ago before I did x. It's been a great message to have 5 years ago before I33:09 did y. Been a great message to have 10 years ago before I did z. Can I tell you, regardless of where you are in this, you can33:21 start in putting the strategy right now, and it starts with what David did after his failure? Psalm 51 verse 10, David said create in me, oh Lord,33:33 a pure heart and renew in me a steadfast spirit. See it was in that moment that that little shepherd boy who had a heart for God, that little shepherd boy33:45 that had a heart for God and and and God's word realized that there is a sin nature in me that will lead me astray. So he confessed his sins33:57 and he asked God to give him a pure heart. What does that mean? An undivided heart. That he would honor and love God. Alright. So let me walk you through quickly thisShow more In this video 0:00 The Deceitful Heart18:05 Salvation and Overcoming Sin34:07 Developing a Pure Heart
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