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Title: My Heart – Christ’s Home                         Scripture: John 14:23-29
 
          Many people have a misunderstanding when it comes to church and Christianity.
“When I get my act cleaned up, then I will come to church.”
We need to understand that without Jesus Christ no one will be clean.
No one will be able to clean up their act.
2 Peter 1:3 says, “*His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.”*
*          *When the blood of Christ washes our sins away, Christ also begins the process of removing the junk from our hearts.
When we were baptized, several things happened:
·        Through our faith in Christ, our sins are forgiven
·        Our slate is wiped clean and we are on our way to heaven
·        We have been pardoned through the blood to Jesus Christ
·        We made Christ our Savior
          When we are baptized with faith in Christ, we are making Jesus our Lord.
What does the term Lord mean?
This person is the Master of this property.
Romans 10:9 says’ “*Jesus is Lord*”, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
When we are baptized, we made Jesus our Savior but we also made him our Lord.
He bought us with his blood and we are his.
Also, when we were baptized, Jesus Christ came and began living in our hearts.
Scripture says, “*Repent and be baptized for the forgiveness of your sins and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”*
John 14:23 says, “*If anyone loves me, he will obey my teachings.
My Father will love him, and will come to him and make our home with him*.”
Jesus Christ is living in our hearts; he has made our hearts his home.
The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him.
But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
This evening I want us to look at the rooms in the house of our hearts and see how Jesus would view each room.
1.     Let’s take our friend Jesus into the study or library.
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This is the room of our minds.
It is the room that controls the other rooms.
b.     Jesus enters with us and looks around at the books in the bookcase, the magazines upon the table, the computer on the desk, and the pictures on the walls.
As we follow his gaze we become uncomfortable.
c.      Strangely, we had not felt self-conscious about this before, but now that Jesus was there looking at all these things, he is embarrassed.
d.
Some books were there that his eyes were too pure to behold.
e.      On the table were a few magazines that a Christian had no business reading.
f.
The computer has internet sites, e-mails, programs, and documents stored that are not wholesome and family friendly.
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As for the pictures on the walls – the imaginations and thoughts of the mind – some of these are hideous.
h.
Red faced, we turn to Jesus and say, “Master, we know that this room needs to be cleaned up and made over.
Will you help us make it what it ought to be?”
i.       “*Certainly*!”Jesus says.
“*I’m glad to help you*.”
First of all, take all the things that you are reading and looking at which are not helpful, pure, good and true, and throw them out!
Put on the empty shelves the books of the Bible, my Word.
Fill the library with Scripture and meditate on it day and night.
Fill the computer with the same things.
As for the pictures on the walls, you will have difficulty controlling those, but I have something that will help.
He gives us a full-size portrait of himself.
Hang this in the center, he says, on the wall of your mind.
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As we follow Jesus’ instructions, we discover that when our thoughts are centered upon Christ himself, his purity and power causes impure thoughts to back away.
He will help us to bring our thoughts under control.
2 Cor 10:5 says, “*We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.*”
2.     The dining Room
a.     From the study we go into the dining room, the room of appetites and desires.
We spend a lot of time here trying to satisfy our wants.
b.
We say to Jesus, “This is our favorite room.
We are quite sure you will be pleased with what we serve.”
c.      Jesus seats himself at the table with us and asks, “What is on the menu for dinner?”
“Well,” we say, “our favorite dishes: money, academic degrees, stocks and possessions, with articles of fame and fortune as side dishes.”
These are the things we like – secular fare.
d.
When the food was placed before him, he said nothing, but we observe that he doesn’t eat a thing.
We say to him, “Master, don’t you care for the food?
What is the trouble?”
e.      Jesus answered, “I have food to eat that you do not know of.
If you want food that really satisfies you, do the will of the Father.
Stop seeking your own pleasures, desires, and satisfactions.
Seek to please God.
That food will satisfy you.”
f.       Jesus goes into the kitchen and brings out a dish that really satisfies.
What flavor.
What a joy to do the will of God.
There is no food like it in the entire world.
It really satisfies.
3.     The living room
a.
We go into the living room.
This is intimate and comfortable.
We all liked it.
It has a fireplace, overstuffed chairs, a sofa, and a quiet atmosphere.
b.     Jesus said,” This is indeed a delightful room.
Let us come here often.
It is secluded and quiet, and we can fellowship together.”
c.      Jesus promised, “I will be here early every morning.
Meet me here, and we will start the day together.”
d.
So the next morning , we get up and go into the living room and some of us watch TV and others of us read the morning paper.
We do this for about a week and we notice that Jesus is off in a corner all by himself, looking very lonely.
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We go over to him and ask, “What’s the matter Jesus?” Jesus says, “I want to be with you and talk with you and all this noise makes that impossible.”
So we turn off the TV and Jesus takes a book of the Bible from the case.
We put down our newspapers and read it together.
He unfolds to us the wonder of God’s saving truths.
We come before him and talk about our troubles and he gives us advice and strength to go through life.
He hugs us and tells us everything will be fine.
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