It should be obvious now after four days that a person’s “heart” is significant. Three of the four breakthroughs, really all four, deal with the heart... A Forgiving HEART, a Giving HEART, and Pure in HEART. As a bonus before you dig deeper into today’s focus---meditate on these passages and the condition of your heart...
18 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.' 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. 20 These are what make a man 'unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean.'" (Matthew 15:18-20)
45 The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks. 46 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say? 47 I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice. 48 He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. 49 But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete." (Luke 6:45-49)
Revival Calendar Day Four
Digging Deeper
Barrier: Lust
This is a huge barrier in our western society. Even if you are not struggling greatly in this area, pray earnestly for a change of heart and breakthrough in our culture before it is too late.
In most cases I am just giving you a single verse, especially in the accounts from the Pauline Epistles you might want to dig deeper by looking at the context...
Old Testament Meaning:
to desire, covet, take pleasure in, delight in
to desire
to be desirable
to delight greatly, desire greatly n f
desirableness, preciousness
Other Usage - Total: 21
desire 11, covet 4, delight 2, pleasant 1, beauty 1, lust 1, delectable things 1
Definition:
desire
desire, wish, longings of one's heart
lust, appetite, covetousness (bad sense)
thing desired, object of desire
Other usage - Total: 20
desire 13, lust 1, greedily 1, pleasent 1, misc. 4
to desire, covet, take pleasure in, delight in
to desire
to be desirable
to delight greatly, desire greatly
desirableness, preciousness
Probably recognize the words---Again interchangeable with desire and covet...
Proverbs 6:25 – “Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes...”
Isaiah 57:5 – “You burn with lust among the oaks and under every spreading tree; you sacrifice your children in the ravines and under the overhanging crags.”
Ezekiel 20:30 - "Therefore say to the house of Israel: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did and lust after their vile images?”
Ezekiel 23:8 – “She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her.”
Ezekiel 23:11 - "Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.”
Ezekiel 23:17 – “Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.”
Nahum 3:4 – “...all because of the wanton lust of a harlot, alluring, the mistress of sorceries, who enslaved nations by her prostitution and peoples by her witchcraft.”
POSITIVE USE: Speaking of the Words of God David says:
Psalm19:10
“More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.”
New Testament Meaning:
Definition:
desire, longing, craving for
eager desire, lust, appetite
used both in a good and a bad sense, as well of natural and lawful and even of proper cravings (of appetite for food), also of corrupt and unlawful desires
Romans 1:27 – “In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.”
Definition:
desire, craving, longing, desire for what is forbidden, lust
Other usage - Total: 38
lust 31, concupiscence 3, desire 3, lust after 1
Matthew 5:27-32- "You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell. 31 "It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.' 32 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.”
Ephesians 4:19 – “Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.”
Colossians 3:5-“Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.”
1Thessalonians 4: “....not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God...”
1Peter 4:3 – “For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do--living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.”
1John 2:16 – “For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from the world.”
desire, craving, longing, desire for what is forbidden, lust
Other usage - Total: 38
lust 31, concupiscence 3, desire 3, lust after 1
Matthew 5:27-32- "You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell. 31 "It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.' 32 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.”
Ephesians 4:19 – “Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.”
Colossians 3:5-“Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.”
1Thessalonians 4: “....not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God...”
1Peter 4:3 – “For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do--living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.”
1John 2:16 – “For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from the world.”
Breakthrough:
Pure in Heart
Pure in Heart
OLD TESTAMENT MEANING:
Definition:
pure, clean
clean (ceremonially - of animals)
pure (physically)
pure, clean (morally, ethically)
Other Usage - Total: 94
clean 50, pure 40, fair 2, purer 1, variant 1
The Entire Law---The idea of cleanliness and purity
Psalm 12:6
“The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.”
Psalm 19:9
“The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.”
Psalm 51:10
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”
Definition:
clean, pure
physically
purified by fire
in a similitude, like a vine cleansed by pruning and so fitted to bear fruit
in a levitical sense
clean, the use of which is not forbidden, imparts no uncleanness
ethically
free from corrupt desire, from sin and guilt
free from every admixture of what is false, sincere genuine
blameless, innocent
unstained with the guilt of anything
Other Usage - Total: 28
pure 17, clean 10, clear 1
Definition:
pure, clean
clean (ceremonially - of animals)
pure (physically)
pure, clean (morally, ethically)
Other Usage - Total: 94
clean 50, pure 40, fair 2, purer 1, variant 1
The Entire Law---The idea of cleanliness and purity
Psalm 12:6
“The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.”
Psalm 19:9
“The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.”
Psalm 51:10
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”
Definition:
clean, pure
physically
purified by fire
in a similitude, like a vine cleansed by pruning and so fitted to bear fruit
in a levitical sense
clean, the use of which is not forbidden, imparts no uncleanness
ethically
free from corrupt desire, from sin and guilt
free from every admixture of what is false, sincere genuine
blameless, innocent
unstained with the guilt of anything
Other Usage - Total: 28
pure 17, clean 10, clear 1
Matthew 5:8
“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”
John 3:10-11
“Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all. For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.”
John 15:3
“Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.”
1Timothy 1:5
“Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...”
1Timothy 3:9
“Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.”
Love Wins, Kenneth
“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”
John 3:10-11
“Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all. For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.”
John 15:3
“Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.”
1Timothy 1:5
“Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...”
1Timothy 3:9
“Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.”
Love Wins, Kenneth
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