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What’s on your
heart?
Matthew 5:21-30, 38-42
‘The Ten Commandments are like
channels down which the water of the
Spirit flows. Without the Spirit they’re just
dry ruts. But our life in the Spirit will only
be fulfilled when we live in obedience to
God as already defined by him in those
commandments.’
Stephen Gaukroger
‘The law is holy, and the
commandment is holy, righteous
and good.’
Romans 7.12
‘What other nation is so great as to have
such righteous decrees and laws as this
body of laws I am setting before you
today?’
Deut 4:8
'When I want to do good, evil is
right there with me.’
Romans 7.21
‘The command ‘Be perfect’ is not idealistic
gas. Nor is it a command to do the
impossible. He is going to make us into
creatures that can obey that command.’
Jesus promises that his Spirit will help
us to live in God’s ways.
CS Lewis, Mere Christianity
Hebrews 10.16, quoting Jeremiah 31.33
says:
‘This is the covenant I will make with
them after that time, says the Lord. I
will put my laws in their hearts, and I
will write them on their minds.’
'I made a covenant with my eyes not to
look lustfully at a girl.’
Job 31.1
‘Who can say I have kept my heart pure;
I am clean and without sin?’
Proverbs 20.9
‘If we say we are without sin we deceive
ourselves and the truth is not in us. If
we confess our sins, he is faithful and
just and will forgive us our sins and
purify us from all unrighteousness.’
I John 1.8
Martyn Lloyd Jones: ‘The Christian faith is
ultimately not only a matter of doctrine
or understanding, or of intellect. It is a
condition of the heart.’
How can a young man keep his way pure?
By living according toyour word.
I will seek you with all my heart;
do not let me stray from your commands.
I have hidden your word in my heart
that I might not sin against you.
Psalm 119.9-11
Teach me your way, O Lord,
and I will walk in your truth;
give me an undivided heart,
that I may fear your name.
Psalm 86.11