SEVEN KINDS OF HEART

 The heart is everything in life. Today I share on the seven kinds of heart in book of Hebrews.

Proverbs 16:1 -- “The preparations of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.”

 By “heart,” the Bible also means our thoughts also: “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7).”

The Bible tells us that the heart is where the issues of life spring forth. What we allow to enter our hearts will affect our thoughts, actions, and even our bodies. In other words, the condition of one’s heart determines the course of one’s life!

 

1. The Erring Heart - Hebrews 3:10

“Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.” 

Hebrews 2:1

“Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.” 

The Israelites in the Wilderness had an astraying  heart

And they have not known my ways — better, yet they took not knowledge of My ways. Although throughout the forty years He had shown to them their disobedience and His displeasure, yet the warning and discipline were fruitless. They gained no knowledge of His ways. It is very important to observe this explicit reference to the close, as well as the beginning of the forty years

 

2. The Hardened Heart - Hebrews 3:8-15

“Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Exhorting  -  Heb. 3:13 - “but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.”

One way to help fellow Christians from developing a hard heart is to constantly encourage each other in the truth.

Christians ought to exhort one another day by day; they are to do this each day. They need to constantly watch out for each other. One exercise of exhortation is not enough. Believers have a mutual duty because they have a mutual God and mutual spiritual interests.

 

3. The Evil Heart of Unbelief

Hebrews 3:12 - “Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God”

Hebrews 3:13 - “But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.”

An evil heart of unbelief – Unbelief is evil – Unbelief always turns away from the Living God.  Spirit of Unbelief – you got to bind this spirit of Unbelief and loose the spirit of faith and truth.

Creeping, slowly and steadily, unbelief was ready to pounce on the early Jewish believers. The author of Hebrews used that Exodus generation to exhort the believers of his day. He wanted them to guard against creeping unbelief which would lead them to fall away from the living God. He does not mean a loss of salvation, for Israel's wilderness-generation was still in covenant with God, but the loss of victory and blessing. Their unbelief was a lack of trust.  How to battle Unbelieving spirit?

 

4. The Discerned Heart

Hebrews 4:12 - “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

In the New International Version it reads, “the word of God is alive and active” and in the Amplified Bible it reads, “operative and energizing“. The Word of God is alive and active, full of energy and is operative.

The words of God’s Word are powerful because they are “living words”; they are full of the life of God, they contain the very breath of God {II Timothy 3:16}.  The Word of God is a discerner – it discerns our heart and minister into our soul and spirit.  The Word of God changes us

to obedience to Christ.  It captures our heart to the obedience of Christ and His Word.  So it is good to hear the Word of God daily and read His Word daily.

 

5. The Sprinkled Heart  - Hebrews 10:22

“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.”

Hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience to a good conscience.  Most of the time we cannot enter the Presence of God because we have a guilty conscience or our conscience are condemned.  If our hearts are not condemned our prayers will be answered if we have an assurance. We have a clear conscience and blood conscience.  The prayer of the righteous will be heard by God.

The blood was sprinkled by the priest to the Mercy seat in the Most Holy Place.  Why for the forgiveness of sins of the people and their conscience of sin being cleared.  But the blood of Jesus cleansed us one for all to serve the Living God in a new way and living way.

 

6. The True Heart - Hebrews 10:22

“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,…”  because we have the sprinkled blood of Jesus.

What is a true heart?   A true heart with a full assurance of faith. Notice the phase “full assurance of faith”  not enter with fear.  A true heart with faith will draw near to God.  How can we enter with confidence to the Throne room of God?

19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 And having an high priest over the house of God; 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,

 

7. The Established Heart - Hebrews 13:9

“Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.”

Heart be established with Grace.  We not only preach grace and hear the preaching of grace message.  We need to establish it with

Grace.  It not enough to hear it – but made it strong.  Like a business start small and later you established your business. It becomes bigger and bigger.  So is the establishment of grace in your life.  What are the benefits of grace?

What Grace can do for you what you cannot?  Grace will teach you reign in life.  Grace will teach you to live a life and godliness.

Grace empowers you to do ministry like Paul.  Grace will transform you and renew you to be a better man. Grace will strengthen you and enrich you in Christ. Many more….  Because Grace is the personified in Jesus.  Jesus is full of Grace and truth. You desire Grace to multiplied not added to you only.

 

May the Lord Bless you and Your Family