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\\ *Text: 1 Peter 1:22-2:3*
*Introduction:*
Topic: Transformation Outwardly
Subtopic: From What Is Within
Title: A Clean Heart
Our hearts make our lives.
What we are in heart, in spirit, in the
inner life, we are really before God; and that, too, we shall
ultimately become in actual character, in outward feature.
The
disposition makes the face.
Every creature builds its own house to
live in, and builds it just like itself.
Coarseness builds coarsely;
taste builds tastefully.
A corrupt heart works through in the end, and
changes all without into moral decay like itself.
Jealousy, envy,
bitterness, selfishness, all write their own image and signature on
the features, if you give them time enough.
A pure, beautiful soul
builds a holy and divine dwelling for itself.
In one of Goethe's tales
he tells of a wonderful lamp which was placed in a fisherman's hut,
and changed it all to silver.
The lamp of Christ's love, set in a
human heart, transforms the life from sinfulness and earthliness into
the likeness of Christ's own spirit.
To make good wishes come true, we
must first get them into our heart, and then they will soon become
real in our life, -- Miller.
By J. Wilbur Chapan, "Present Day Parables."
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I. The Conception of the Word Brings Life
!! A. New Life
- As wonderful as babies are, nothing can compare with the new life found in Christ.
The old has passed away, and *behold!* all things are new.
A new creation in Christ.
- Not renewal of Old life, nor extension of the old life, but a brand new life.
~*~*~*A minister at an outdoor service was talking on sin, and quoted the
words, "Wilt thou be made whole?"
A man in the audience took the
service out of the preacher's hands my saying: "That's just it.
I
patched for years, but the patches made bigger holes.
I had become a
hard drinker.
I lost my job.
At last my wife and children went to
her parents, as I had lost my home.
One day on skid row someone
invited me to come to a city mission.
I went, and there Jesus found
me.
He didn't patch; He just made me whole, and then gave me back my
family, my job, and my happiness."
("Choice Illustrations" W.W. Clay
pg.
10-11)
- Jesus said that new wine is not put into old wineskins, but is put into new wineskins lest the old ones break.
!! B. Eternal Life
- A quality as well as a quantity.
- Not something held out for the future, but a present possession.
~*~*~* Harry Ironside tells the following story in his commentary on
John.
A preacher a few years ago after the close of the service went
back to the door to great the people.
A lady troubled about her
soul came along, and he reached out his hand and said to her,
"Well, how is it with you tonight?
Are you saved?"
She said,
"Oh, I don't know, sir; I hope so."
He said, "Well, let me show
you this verse, 'He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting
life.'
Do you believe on the Son?" "Oh, I do, sir, I do believe
on Him with all my heart."
"Well, then have you everlasting
life?"
She replied, "I hope so.
I hope I have it."
The
minister then asked her to read the verse again.
She read it,
"He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life."
"Do you
believe on the Son? "I do."
"Then have you everlasting life?"
"I hope so, I certainly hope so." "Read it again please."
She
read it again -- "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting
life."
Do you believe on the Son? Again she replied, "I do!"
"Then do you have everlasting life?"
She again replied, "I hope
so."
"Well," the minister said, "I see what the trouble is."
She
asked, "What is the trouble?" "Why, the trouble," the minister
said, "is that when you were a girl the spelled very differently
than they did when I was a boy."
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