New year

New heart

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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 yourselfBe honestBe strict

Gen 32:26And 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,

New heart

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

Aetiology Heart diseases

Pride Hypertension

Jealousy Arrhythmia

Envy Angina

Hatred Heart failure

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

• Jhn 13:34 “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?