A New Heart - Sermon Notes
04/15 -
A New Heart - Dr. Bailey’s Sermon Notes
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.
Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Why does God give us this Promise?
In the Great Controversy, Satan has accused God’s Law/His Character/His Unconditional LOVE of being unfair and unjust. No one can keep God’s Law. Sin cannot enter heaven again.
Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
Ezekiel 11:20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
New Covenant-Justification, Sanctification, The Blotting Out Of Sins
Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Why Does God Repeat This Promise Twice In Hebrews?
Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Hebrews 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Hebrews 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
So you are NOT convinced this text is about blotting out of sin? Let’s read v18.
Hebrews 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. Kobeesa/swahili
So when does this occur? Many have said it occurs after Christ’s Second Coming? Then does God have the power to overcome any sin, if God cannot help you overcome every sin? Just love God and do as you please?
From The Faith Chapter
Hebrews 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
Hebrews 11:40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
From the literal Greek:
Hebrews 11:39-40 “And these all, being testified to through faith, are not requited, with the promise of God concerning us (the looking forward is to something better), that, apart from us, they may not be perfected.”
What Is The Promise?
This promise (Hebrews 8:6) is the new covenant relationship. Many have said that the promise is heaven. V5 Where is Enoch? V 23-28 Where is Moses? Oops, not heaven.
But some would say that being perfected is after Jesus comes? I will suggest that this must happen before the second coming but after the sealing, because the promise that the faithful of Hebrews 11 didn’t get is the blotting out of sins, which vindicates God from the accusations of Satan.
When does this occur?
Revelation 7:1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
Revelation 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
Revelation 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
Revelation 7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
The Remnant, The Final Generation, Those That Do Not See Death, The 144,000: are a group of people that vindicate God’s Holy Name. Not just some few in every generation that live up to all the light they have but, a large group of people that have so close a relationship to God that they would rather die then offend God. They are settled into truth so they cannot be moved. Their characters reflects Jesus in thought, action and deed. They are safe to be saved.
Revelation 14:4 ...These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. Thus, this promise must be fulfilled before the Second Coming.
Never before in the history of man has a large group of people lived without the need of a mediator. With the Holy Spirit at their side and heavenly angels of strength guarding them, they stand as vindicators of God’s Holy Law. Remember, Satan said, “No one can keep God’s Law,” and this group of last day people, in fallen sinful flesh, are without known sin.
Thus, the great multiple that no man can number (Revelation 7:9)
Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
is safe to save also, because God says that if that person that died, under Christ’s redemptive blood, was placed in the same situation as the “one heart/sealed” group, they would act and behave exactly the same. So, “they without us should not be made perfect.” Sin cannot enter heaven again. You must be separated from sin. Sin must be destroyed with or without you.
That’s the promise.
The Tale Of Two Wolves-Galatians 5:16-26
One night an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside of people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all.
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance , self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.
The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.
And this is the Heart Of The Matter
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins?” The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”
