What's the condition of your heart?

1 May 2011

Shaun McMillan

Rom13:9,10 All the commands are summed up in loving your neighbour. Sin is not just the deed but what is happening in your heart. Any sin is breaking the whole law. The Royal law - -the law of love. Sin breaks fellowship with the object of the law the creator. If you break a mirror in one place the whole mirror is broken. Mat5:21-22 Even those who are angry will be subject to judgment as much as the murderer. We cannot show favouritism with anything - it is tantamount to sin. Don’t look at the big sins all sin separates us from God, including discrimination. God wants to look at how our hearts are even to other cultures and races. We need to allow God to deal with our hearts.

Speak and at as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom. Rom8:1,2 The Holy Spirit will never guide us into anything that is contrary to God’s law. We have this as a law of liberty not bondage. 1Cor3:11-15 The foundation to our lives is Jesus. What will build must be built on Jesus alone all else is worthless. We as Christian have to give an account for our words and our deeds. 1 Cor5:10 we will all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. Rom14:10 we will all stand before God’s judgment seat – to give an account for our lives. Matt16:27 each will be rewards according to what he has done. Rev22:12 we have a responsibility in serving God to live lives worthy of the calling we have received in Christ. We have a purpose and calling in this life. God is eager for us to live this out.

Be merciful, mercy triumphs over judgment. Matt18:23-35 The master and the un merciful servant. Are we prepared to cancel the debts owed to us just as God has been merciful in cancelling our debt? We need to be forgivers from the heart. When we judge and discriminate against people we are not showing mercy. In the Arc of the Covenant the mercy seat was over and above all else. This shows God’s focus on mercy. One day we will be standing and facing judgment how will we fair in regards to the Royal Law. Our goal is to become more like Jesus. Nothing but ourselves can stop us becoming more like Jesus.

So what is the condition of our hearts? Ask Jesus to expose the condition of our hearts. The goal must to be, to be more like Jesus and live the Royal Law.