0125 Heart - Extreme Makeover

Heart – Extreme Makeover

Quality of man is determined by his heart (Luke 6:45) – not actions, words & look

Quality of life is determined by heart (Luke 6:45) – your heart is the well from which life flows (Prov.4:23)

Quality of heart cannot be determined by physical appearance, words & works (1 Sam.16:7)

Destiny is determined not by outward performance but inward substance

Eliab took care of his face by neglecting his heart

You cannot please God without offending the world

God heals the land not the plant (2 Chron.7:13-14)

The land = people; the damage of the land destroys the plant

If God will bless you He will start with your land not your plant

Secret of fruitfulness is not in the seed but in the soil (Mt.13:23)

Seed is capable of endless reproduction

Seed “Jesus” is covered with outward colt

Unhealthy reproduction is dangerous

Fruitfulness is God’s expectation of the land

Ground is not for entertainment but for productivity

Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth & have dominion (Gen.1:28)

Tree which doesn’t bear good fruit is cut down (Mt.3:10)

Landowner expected fruit from His vinedressers (Mt.21:34)

Branch which doesn’t produce fruit he takes it away (John 15:2)

Kingdom of God is taken from Israel and given to Gentiles who will produce its fruit (Mt.21:43)

Hard Heart (rocks on the top and soil on the bottom – junk on the top and good on the bottom)

Trodden “compressed” ground

Sin hardens the heart

Tradition hardens the heart

Conviction of the Spirit and repentance brakes the hard heart

Seed falls upon it but in it

Hearing information with no understanding

Birds snatch the seed

Unless the seed gets in you it will be stolen

Do not fight with birds – they do their job, but labor on the soil

Double Heart (soil on the top and rock on the bottom – good is on the top and junk is on the bottom)

Seed falls in the soil not just on the soil

Immediate joyful reaction toward the Word

Growth is a process so everything that comes up fast will come down fast

No perseverance in faith when problems come creates a destructive pattern of quitting when things get hard

Soil at the surface and rock at the bottom

Surface Christianity is not exposing hidden and unseen part of us for God’s dealing

Sun scorches the soil and exposes what is going on under the surface

Faith will be scorched if found on anything else except the on God

Wind tests the construction but foundation keeps it from destruction

Sun is to your advantage if the ground is good, are you afraid of sun?

Birds are not responsible for unfruitfulness but rootlessness

Damaged Heart (thorn hurts person and destroys the fruit)

Seed falls in the soil not just on the soil

Soil has no rocks but thorns

Thorns harm fruit

Cares of this world

Working to live or living to work

Serving God and offending mammon

Seek the Kingdom and all of it will be added to you

Deceitfulness of riches

If I will be rich, I will be happy

Riches are solution to the problems

Healthy Heart (healthy hearts feed the earth while unhealthy one starves it)

Quality of soil

Breaking of the ground

Uprooting of the thorns

Removing of the rocks

Quality of fruit

The power of the Seed

Influence of the sun

Rain from heaven

Soil guarded (Prov.4:23)

Key to quality of soil is to yield the ground. Wouldn’t farmer want to see his soil produce fruit?