God Wants Your Whole Heart

 

Why do we need to examine ourselves daily by the word of God?

Psalms 119:2   Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

  Psalms 119:10   With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

I need this study as much as anyone! The world would have us follow other things and deceive us into believing that half hearted service to God is good enough when in actuality it's not!!! We cannot come to God on our own terms!

John 6:65   And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

What is it that is given unto us? A new heart!

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.

Jeremiah 24:7   And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

Why?

So we can know him! So that we can be his people for him to be our God!

If we return unto Him that means we were with him once and were separated to be able to return again with our whole new heart!

Genesis 2:15   And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

  Genesis 2:16   And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

  Genesis 2:17   But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

What's wrong with the heart we have that we are born with?

Sin!!! We are all sinners with sinful hearts! Jesus came for us to save us from our sins!

Jeremiah 17:9   The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Matthew 9:10   And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.

  Matthew 9:11   And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?

  Matthew 9:12   But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

  Matthew 9:13   But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

This is why Jesus said to Nicodemus that he must be born again!

 John 3:3   Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

  John 3:7   Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

  1 Peter 1:23   Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

How are we born again? By the word of God!

What is or more to the point Who is the word?

John 1:1   In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

  John 1:14   And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Jesus!!!

James 1:18   Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

John 8:32   And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

John 14:6   Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

 Mark 12:28   And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?

  Mark 12:29   And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

Sounds like he wants our whole heart!

  Mark 12:30   And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

  Mark 12:31   And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

  Mark 12:32   And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:

  Mark 12:33   And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

  Mark 12:34   And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

Through his blood we are redeemed!

Ephesians 1:1   Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

  Ephesians 1:2   Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Ephesians 1:3   Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

  Ephesians 1:4   According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

  Ephesians 1:5   Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

  Ephesians 1:6   To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

  Ephesians 1:7   In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

  Ephesians 1:8   Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

  Ephesians 1:9   Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

  Ephesians 1:10   That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

  Ephesians 1:11   In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

  Ephesians 1:12   That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

  Ephesians 1:13   In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

  Ephesians 1:14   Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Ye trusted after ye heard? To trust you must have faith! How do we have faith. We must hear the gospel, to get faith?

Romans 10:17   So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

 Matthew 13:9   Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

  Matthew 13:43   Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

What does the Lord require of thee?

Fear the Lord and walk in ALL his ways, to love him and to serve him with your whole heart!

Deuteronomy 10:11   And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.

  Deuteronomy 10:12   And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

  Deuteronomy 10:13   To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

  Deuteronomy 10:14   Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

  Deuteronomy 10:15   Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

  Zephaniah 2:3   Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

 Isaiah 55:1   Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

  Isaiah 55:2   Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

  Isaiah 55:3   Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

  Isaiah 55:4   Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.

  Isaiah 55:5   Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

  Isaiah 55:6   Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

  Isaiah 55:7   Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

  Isaiah 55:8   For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

  Isaiah 55:9   For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

  Isaiah 55:10   For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

  Isaiah 55:11   So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

  Isaiah 55:12   For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

  Isaiah 55:13   Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Seek Ye the Lord!!!