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Home Search Topics Contact About | How To Win A Soul 5They need to know that they must receive Jesus into their hearts.Ephesians 3:17a That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith;
We might point out that when the Bible refers to our hearts it does not refer to the muscle in our chest pumping blood around the body. The heart is the real you, the part of you that will exist somewhere forever, either Heaven or Hell. We should establish another reason that we need Jesus living in our hearts. Before He dwells in them our hearts are sinful. Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Since pure hearts are required to see God and salvation is a gift of God, pure hearts are part of the gift. People need to know that only God can purify our hearts. He does that when we receive Jesus. Acts 15:8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.Ezekiel 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. I share with them that Jesus dwelling in our hearts will make changes in them. Jesus can influence a heart from within but has no spiritual influence on a heart where He has not taken up residence. Matthew 12:35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.The difference between the good man and the evil man is that the good man has Christ living and working in his heart. Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. |
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