Sermon notes Vue Du Cap
20.02.2017
A willing Heart
Introduction:
Since the end of last year, my desire
grew to go deeper with God/ grow closer to God
God led me to Psalm 139 v 23-24
“Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Point out anything in me that offends you,
and lead me along the path of everlasting life.”
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Point out anything in me that offends you,
and lead me along the path of everlasting life.”
It is a psalm of David
The last two verses stand out. The rest
is written in a poetic language
The last two verses are a prayer to
stay on course/ to check ourselves
The foundation to be able to pray this:
-trust
-the right knowledge of the character
of God
-God is a
good good Father
-God is
faithful and trustworthy
-I need to let God speak into my life
-That helps to be right with God/to
show remorse and a readiness to repent
Psalm 26 v 2; Psalm 143 v 10; Psalm 5
v 8; Job 31 v 6
Look at Psalm 51 (background: David's
sin)
- verse 10: Create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me
- a new heart and a new spirit (Ezekiel 18 v 31)
- to create = bara - to bring into existence, to fashion existing matter into something new
- verse 17: key is a contrite heart
- contrite: a crushed, broken heart/grieving, penitent for sin/it offers no excuse and shifts no blame/it sees our sin the way God sees it/it does not take God's forgiveness for granted
- contrite: having a heart of repentance/to be seen in connection with humility/poor in spirit and fear of the Lord
- A contrite heart seeks the strength of God to overcome sin and to move on towards holiness
- It is a WILLING HEART
- God is pleased with a willing heart that seeks to please Him and that is open for correction
Psalm 34 v 18
Isaiah 57 v 15
The high
and lofty one who lives in eternity,
the Holy One, says this:
“I live in the high and holy place
with those whose spirits are contrite and humble.
I restore the crushed spirit of the humble
and revive the courage of those with repentant heart”
the Holy One, says this:
“I live in the high and holy place
with those whose spirits are contrite and humble.
I restore the crushed spirit of the humble
and revive the courage of those with repentant heart”
Isaiah 66 v 2
“My hands have made both heaven
and earth;they and everything in them are mine.[a]
I, the Lord, have spoken!
“I will bless those who have humble and contrite hearts,
who tremble at my word.”
Matth. 5 v 4
Luke 18 v 10-14
“ Two men went to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and
the other was a despised tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by
himself and prayed this prayer[a]:
‘I thank you, God, that I am not like other people—cheaters,
sinners, adulterers. I’m certainly not like that tax collector!
12 I fast twice a week, and I give you a tenth of my income.’
13 “But
the tax collector stood at a distance and dared not even lift his
eyes to heaven as he prayed. Instead, he beat his chest in sorrow,
saying, ‘O God, be merciful to me, for I am a sinner.’ 14 I
tell you, this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justified
before God. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those
who humble themselves will be exalted.”
Ending off with a deeper look of Psalm
139 verses 23-24
Search my heart
Test me
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