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Experiencing God Day by Day Podcast — A Heart of Flesh. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
You're listening to the Experiencing God Day-by-day podcast brought to you by Black Living Ministries International. September 15th, a heart of flesh, Ezekiel 36, verse 26. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. From our hearts comes our response to God. Apart from the cleansing work of the Holy Spirit, our hearts are extremely deceitful. Proverbs 17, verse 9. David prayed that God would cleanse him from the ravages of his sin and purify his heart. Psalm 51, verse 10. It's greatest desires that his people love him with all their hearts. Deuteronomy 6, verse 5. Jesus said, we are blessed if our hearts are pure.
Matthew 5, verse 8. Sin hardens the heart. Matthew 13, verses 4 and 19. The more sin we allow to pass over our hearts and through our lives, the more resistant we become to a word from God. The sin of unforgiveness stiffens our hearts. We cannot continue to resist the prompting of the Holy Spirit without becoming hardened against him. Exposing ourselves to evil and ungodly influences desensitizes us to God and his word. Over time our hearts become like stone, unreceptive to a fresh word from God. We become anesthetized to sin. Has your heart grown hard toward God? Do you feel as though nothing could soften it? God has a solution. He will separate you from the influences that are destroying you. Ezekiel 36, verse 24. He will cleanse you from all filthiness and remove everything that has taken his place in your affections.
Ezekiel 36, verse 25. He will remove your heart of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh, tender toward him and his word. If your love for God is not what it should be, ask him to renew your heart and restore your devotion to him.
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