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The Marks of a Christian; Belief Modification -
(Honoring God in the Heart)
Heb.
13:9-25 July 27, 1997
Scripture: Unison Reading, Hebrews 13:9-19, page #1879, Pew Bible
*Introduction:*
Last Sunday we talked about the marks of a Christian in how our behavior is modified as a member of God’s family.
We honor God by how we behave as a member of his family.
*I.
Social Life (vv.
1-3)*
A.
Brotherly love: God’s family holds to a common origin.
B.
Hospitality: God’s family considers others as potential members.
C.
Empathy: God’s family remembers those who are hurting.
*II.
Private Life (vv.
4-6)*
A.
Marriage: God’s families stay intact.
B.
Money: God’s families recognize true wealth in each other.
C.
Contentment: God’s families depend on God.
*III.
Religious Life (vv.
7-8)*
A.
Honor: God’s family remembers their leaders.
B.
Victory: God’s family remembers its champion.
*Timeless Truth:* Jesus Christ - He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.
You can act on it.
Today we will continue that type of theme as we finish our study of Hebrews.
A member of God’s family has a right heart toward God.
Because our beliefs have been modified we are able to honor God in the heart.
This past week I had two different experiences with people I had occasion to tell about the gospel.
Neither one had a right heart toward God.
The first was a man sitting or waiting at the corner of a parking lot up on Lawrence Ave. near Elston.
I offered him a tract and he reluctantly took it.
Then I told him what it was about - that Jesus Christ came to die on a cross for the forgiveness of sins.
He said he didn’t believe in the forgiveness of sins - that we sin knowing full well that we sin so how can there be any forgiveness.
I explained but he didn’t want to receive.
He wanted to live in his sins.
He didn’t want to modify his beliefs and give them up.
You see, forgiveness of sin demands that we forsake sin.
He didn’t have, nor want, a right heart toward God.
The second was a woman near Salem EFC near Armitage and California.
As soon as I got out of the car I saw her staggering down the sidewalk in front of the mission home.
As soon as she saw me she started to proposition me for sex, booze, and a good time.
I had my Bible with me and I was overwhelmed with the urge to preach.
I gave her a tract and told her about the gospel of the good news of salvation in Christ.
She told me that she understood it all and that she was saved.
I said then you must agree that you must give up living in sin.
She said she needed the alcohol to forget sin.
So I confronted her with the contradiction - that it doesn’t work, nor make sense, to use sin to deal with sin.
I showed her the exhortations in Hebrews that if we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there is no sacrifice for sins left.
I urged her to live her faith in the power of God to deliver her from sin and then I prayed with her.
When I got done praying I took her alcohol away from her.
She said it wouldn’t make any difference and she propositioned me again.
I left her in God’s hands.
This woman is different than the man I met, and yet they are both the same.
He didn’t want to know God or need God, and he didn’t want to have a right heart toward God.
She said she knew God and needed God, but she didn’t want to have a right heart toward God either.
Both wanted to live in their sin.
I don’t believe either one is in God’s family.
But that doesn’t mean it is not possible in God’s time.
What is it that makes a right heart toward God?
*2588 kardia {kar-dee'-ah} *
* prolonged from a primary kar (Latin, cor, "heart"); TDNT - 3:605,415; n f *
* AV - heart 159, broken hearted + 4937 1; 160 *
* 1) the heart*
* 1a) that organ in the animal body which is the centre of the*
* circulation of the blood, and hence was regarded as the seat*
* of physical life*
* 1b) denotes the centre of all physical and spiritual life*
* 2a) the vigour and sense of physical life*
* 2b) the centre and seat of spiritual life*
* 2b1) the soul or mind, as it is the fountain and seat of the*
* thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, affections,*
* purposes, endeavours*
* 2b2) of the understanding, the faculty and seat of the*
* intelligence*
* 2b3) of the will and character*
* 2b4) of the soul so far as it is affected and stirred in a*
* bad way or good, or of the soul as the seat of the*
* sensibilities, affections, emotions, desires,*
* appetites, passions*
* 1c) of the middle or central or inmost part of anything, even*
* though inanimate*
*I.
Sacrifice (vv.
9-16)*
* *
* A.
A right heart before God is willing to give up the old ways.*
* (vv. 9-10)*
We can take heart in the fact that Jesus is forever the same.
We can remain in the truth we have received and confessed about him.
This truth will never change.
The right heart will not return to strange teachings no matter what garb they may presently be clothed with.
Satan is always coming up with a new twist especially designed to deceive us in our particular weakness which he knows well.
Even then in the early church these strange teachings were said to be diverse or of all kinds.
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