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GTM - The Biblical Heart Part Two - By Michael Heiss - January 20, 2023 Before I get into new material, I want to make a comment or two because we received a couple of e-mails; good questions and good points. One thing we have to realize when we talk about theology, we talk about Biblical happenstances and occurrences. Scholars come up with words such as monotheism, henotheism, omnipotence, omniscience...
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GTM - The Biblical Heart Part Two - By Michael Heiss - January 20, 2023 Before I get into new material, I want to make a comment or two because we received a couple of e-mails; good questions and good points. One thing we have to realize when we talk about theology, we talk about Biblical happenstances and occurrences. Scholars come up with words such as monotheism, henotheism, omnipotence, omniscience...
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The speaker discusses theological concepts such as God's omniscience and omnipotence. They emphasize that our understanding of God is limited and influenced by our own perceptions. They give examples of things that God cannot do, such as making square triangles or making a rock too heavy for him to lift. They also discuss how God's knowledge and actions can change based on circumstances and human choices. The speaker emphasizes the importance of free will and how our actions determine our relationship with God. They mention that God's goal is to have a family and that everything from Genesis to Revelation is part of the process of achieving that. And once again, welcome, everybody. Happy Sabbath. And as I said, kiddingly though, you must be grunts for punishment, so here I go with part two. But before I actually get into more material, I wanted to comment or two because we received a couple of emails. And good questions and good points. So, I want to start out. One individual sent a nice study on God's omniscience. And I appreciate that very, very much. One thing we have to realize when we talk about theology, we talk about biblical happenstances and occurrences. Scholars come up with words such as monotheism, henotheism, omnipotence, omniscience. You ever find those words in the Bible? But scholars come up with them to sort of try to explain what they read, so they can understand it. Well, the question was, really, is it true that God doesn't know everything? Is it true that God cannot do everything? And the answer is yes, because it all boils down to a definition. And we tend to try to make God in our own image in a way. And I'm referring to the part of My Fair Lady. I don't know how many of you have seen it, where Lula's Delightful Plague comes taking place, of course, in London. And there, of course, Rex Harrison is the lead part. And he has a song in there, So Where a Plague, and he's talking about why can't a woman be like a man? After all, a woman, she's plenty, she's this, she's that. But a man would be strong, he's noble. Till finally he gets down to the nitty gritty, the very end, where he asks, Why can't a woman be like me? That's his point. He wants a woman made in the right image. But I'll tell you, if he ever got that kind of woman, oh, he would be miserable. To have a woman just right, she'd be miserable. She'd be that little girl. It doesn't last long. Well, in a way, we serve as God. We take the most hateful word ever given, we translate it into G-O-D, God. And we think of all of the encrustments, and all the accoutrements, and all of the additions, and that this God must be all-knowing, must be all-powerful. He must be able to do anything and everything all at once. And that's not true. Because when you read Scripture, when you read the Bible, you don't find that. You really don't. And I really appreciated the study that this viewer sent me. So let me read just a couple of items from it. To be all-powerful does not mean that God can do anything whenever. How true. Things that are impossible to do cannot be done, not even by God. Things that contradict God's nature, that is, clearly, they're all cannot be done. They're not really limitations on God's power. He can do anything and everything that is possible to do, and in harmony with his own nature. I think here's a couple of examples here. God cannot make square triangles. He cannot make the page so flat that it has only one side. He cannot let the universe both exist and not exist at once, and at the same time. See, and oh, where's all that? That's what it's like to always ask. He says he cannot make the proverbial rock so heavy that even he can't lift it. Because remember, a rock is material. God is spirit. Spirit on and out of it controls physical matter. God can lift a brick or a mountain so high. Doesn't matter. He can will it into existence. He can will it out of existence. This is crazy. But the point here is when God says he's going to do something, that means he's going to do it. So therefore, he is all powerful in that context. Always remember context, definition, and assumptions. If there are certain things God doesn't know, it doesn't make it any less God. It's just that our image of him tells to appreciate, but it shouldn't. For example, I gave the example I gave last year. Last year, right. Sure. Last week about Abraham. You know, when God said to him to go sacrifice your son to me, your only son, take him up to me, your only son of promise. Now, it's interesting. I won't turn to it because I want to make sure I have enough time for the other material. But if you read there in Genesis 22, you'll find when Abraham and Isaac arrived at the place, his servants are there. And then Abraham says something very interesting to his servants. He said, you stay here while the land and I go up to worship, and we will come back to you. Now, wait a minute. If Abraham is supposed to sacrifice Isaac, that means Isaac's not coming back. But you see, Abraham believed God. And what did God tell him? Remember the story of Ishmael and Haggai? And the evil God sided with Sarah. Get Ishmael out of the camp. Get the Egyptian woman out of the camp. God says, don't worry, Abraham. I'll bless Barad because he is your son. But in Isaac shall your seed be called. Well, if Isaac is going to die, then Isaac will not be his seed. So Abraham knew that. And Abraham had faith that even number one, God was going to change his mind and not go through with the sacrifice. Whenever the sacrifice would occur and God would resurrect him. But either way, Abraham and Isaac were coming back. It shows you Abraham's faith in God. And it also shows that God, based on circumstances, can change. And what he knows. And remember what God said to Abraham, because you have done this thing, not withhold your only son in blessing, I will bless you. He swore by himself. Since then, now I know. What? He didn't know before. No, he didn't. Does that make him any less Elohim? No. It just means with Abraham and all of us, God is going to test us. Why? He wants to make sure. And I'm going to try to show you from Deuteronomy 6, 6, about the greatest commandment of the law and what that really entails. What, what, what, what, what's there. And there's a lot more than meets the eye when you look into those words. Abraham, or shall I say God, does not want any Lucifer's running around in his kingdom. He's not going to have it. Therefore, he has to test each one to know, and nobody knows. He doesn't know it. We brought around Ahab. God pronounced judgment on Ahab. And Ahab, lo and behold, the son of the first kings, he went and sacked Lopanatius. He humbled himself. And God said, see what Ahab has done. I'm not going to do it in his day. God backed off. Why? Because Ahab repented. Well, as much as Ahab could possibly have repented, he couldn't keep it up. He didn't. He didn't go through the motions. He went through the words. He wasn't sure at the time. So God said, okay, I'll back off. God didn't know that Ahab was going to do that. He really didn't. He doesn't. Again, that does not mean that God is an evil-hearted God, just because there are things he doesn't know, and particularly the deal with human beings, because God has given us all free moral agency. That's important. God says, okay, here's my law. Here are my requirements, my statutes, my judgments. Hearken unto them. Obey my voice. You know, it's up to us. God's just sitting back watching. What are we going to do? Do we really love him with all the heart, mind, soul, and so forth? Do we? Or do we not? He's got to know. So there are things that God doesn't necessarily know. But again, it doesn't make him any less the mighty Elohim that he is. And remember, Elohim is a title. By Pharaoh, Caesar, Jerusalem, Pope. It's not necessarily an individual being. Right now, there are two in the family of Elohim. And before it's through, who knows how many millions or billions of individuals in Elohim this is going to be. Okay, I didn't want to bring that out. And when somebody else sent an email showing a scripture in Ezekiel where the Bible does talk about fairness as such, it was very, very interesting. So if you'll turn there to this particular case we've done with Ezekiel. It's two chapters, but the first one will be chapter 18. So Ezekiel chapter 18, verse 25 and verse 29. So here we are, Ezekiel chapter 18 and verse 25. You say, the rule of the Lord was not fair. Here now, O house of Israel, was not my welfare. I am not in your ways unfair. That's what he said, now verse 29. What the house of Israel said, the rule of the Lord was not fair. O house of Israel, I am not in my ways fair. I am not in your ways unfair. And what he says, almost the same thing in chapter 33. And these are the only two chapters in the entirety of the Old Testament where this word is used. It's only used four or five times. Now you'll find the English word fair in the Bible. Talking about a fair young maiden. She was fair to look upon. The weather was fair. But in terms of conduct of what is fair and unfair, these are the only two places that I have found in the Old Testament where this word is used. Now let me get to Ezekiel 33. Right, yes, Ezekiel 33 and verse 17. What the children of your people say, the rule of the Lord is not fair. But as for them, it was their way that is not fair. No one out. Now we're going to go to verse 20. What you say, the rule of the Lord is not fair, O house of Israel. I will judge you each according to his ways. So what have we got here? God doesn't promote himself as being fair. God has a goal. I don't know why, but he loves us. Sometimes I look at myself and I say, Father, why would you ever want me? But he does. He wants all of us. John 3, 16, God's soul of the world. He gave his only begotten son. At some point, I like to say some point in time, but really we can't say some point in time because God's outside of space and time. And before this universe was ever created, there was no time. Just what it means. Hard to grasp. I can't. But at some point, the two of them, the El Elyon and the love us, decided they wanted a family. They decided that. And so what's happening here? Everything from Genesis 1, 26, 27. Let us make man in our image. Clear to book of Revelation. High and above on the sea of glass. Sometimes I think it may be more like crystal, but whether glass or crystal, it's going to be gorgeous. God is going to get us from point A to point B. But how he does it, all of the points in between. Well, that's up for grabs. That depends on how we act. And God has established certain standards. So he'll always judge righteously on the standards. But after all, I remember, I think you might get a kick out of this. I don't know, but I saw part two of this. And there was a beautiful guard. There's a gate. And there was a shiny gold with a sword guarding the way. And here came a man. And he had a son. And he says to his son, we used to live there before your mother ate us out of the house and home. Well. Cain gave an offering to the Lord. He was very rude too. But God accepted him as the high king. And God said to God in essence, God, you're not fair. I gave an offering. Why did you accept my brothers, but not mine? Now we can speculate on that. We could say, because it says, Abel gave you the choicest of the flattened earth. He gave the best. All that says is Cain gave an offering from the ground. Well, was it the best? Don't know. So we can do a speculate. Maybe it's because Cain should have sacrificed an animal knowing it takes the blood to have sin forgiven. But in a way, God did not accept Cain. Therefore, God wasn't fair. You see, fair is always a human perspective. We show God is unfair because he doesn't do things the way we want him to do. That's, they tried to make God a real image. It was unfair. Look at nations. Some nations are big and valuable. Other nations are small. Is God fair? Why do you have such giant kingdom in such tiny nation? See, God just didn't do it right. He played favorites. No, he didn't. God is working things out to accomplish his plan. And he's not speaking in terms of fairness. Because fairness is irrelevant to him. Holiness, righteousness. That's what's important to him. Ruling us along so we all can be in his kingdom and all we want together. So, the fairness is irrelevant to him. But on the other hand, he's fair in this regard. He doesn't play favorites. If you don't repent of sin, we'll build his way. You don't have to be in the kingdom. Doesn't matter who you are. Doesn't matter what your name is. Doesn't matter what your lineage is. Also, in addition to that, if you are, you do repent. Then it doesn't matter what your background is. He will receive you in his kingdom. So, you see, he doesn't play favorites. But in terms of fairness as men see it, no, he's not. Because he doesn't think in those terms. Okay. So, anyway, it was human as mankind that thinks in terms of fairness. God does not. He's not unjust. But he doesn't think in terms of fairness. Okay. Now, I would like to go to 1st Deuteronomy 6 and verse 6. And God shows something, a requirement that is very profound and is all-encompassing. Deuteronomy chapter 6 and verse 5. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. And there's a lot more here than meets the eye. First of all, he says you shall love. That means that word love implies loyalty, dedication, absolute obedience. To love God means to be completely faithful to him in everything that he says. To back him up with everything that you have. That's what it means to love God. To be absolutely dedicated and loyal to him. And in the process, with all your heart. All right. That's our word love. But love, remember, is the entirety of a person. His thoughts, his actions, his emotions, everything that makes that person what he is. That is to be dedicated to God. You have to love him with all of your heart. And whatever it says, with all your soul. And would you believe, it really means, if you understand where it's coming from, with all your neck. What's your neck got to do with this? Well, actually, the Hebrew word is nephesh. And nephesh means like breathing, technical breathing. You go back to Genesis 2-7, remember, and the Lord God came down, formed the man, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. And then became a nephesh. Well, you see the neck, conduit from the head to the rest of the body. What starts with the neck? Well, how about breathing? The lungs, it starts, you know, with the nose, air goes, and then goes down through the neck. The esophagus, that's life. You don't eat, you're a poor fool, who doesn't get down? You're dead. You starve to death. And of course, there's the esophagus, and there's, I'm sorry, and the skeleton. Your backbone starts at the back of your neck, goes clear down. In other words, you're to love him with all your living force. Your breathing force. Not just the heart. The heart is a tolus, encompassing. But in Hebrew, we have what we call parabolism. It's like poetry. And, you know, I mentioned before, I like my favorite poem, Sennacherib. But you have the meter, and the rhyme, and so forth. Hebrew doesn't have that, but it has repetition. You go back and see, of the death of Siserub, at the hands of Ya'al, and the force of Debo was there, and it says, he fell, he sang, he died. So, oh, oh, that's how he was constructed. So, we're to love God with our entire heart, our whole being, and then our life force. Everything is a slave. Devoted to God. And then, with all our might. In other words, with all the strength that we have. So, if you're loving God, and devoted to him. Your heart, meaning your entire being. Not just that pulp. Not just the emotions, but your entire being. And your life force. And whatever might and strength you have. You're giving God everything that you are. That's exactly what he wants. Because then, and then only, will God know. As he knew with Abraham's obedience. Then he knows, you will never turn into a Lucifer. But that's what, that's what he's doing. Here in Deuteronomy 6, 5. Well now, we're going over a tragic story. And I don't know how to describe it. Except it is. The heart of Solomon. First Kings 3. And we're going to see some amazing things. Well, first of all, we'll go to 2nd Samuel 12. 2nd Samuel 12. And we'll go to verse 34. 2nd Samuel 12, verse 24. And anyway, there. Which was after the child, the issue between David and Bathsheba died. And David went in to conquer Bathsheba. And he bore a son. And he called him with the name Solomon. And look at the last statement in verse 24. And the Lord to loved him. God loved Solomon. No advance your butts. Straight up statement. And it says that Solomon loved the Lord. All right. First Kings 3. First Kings chapter 3. And verse 3. First Kings 3, verse 3. And here we have. And Solomon loved the Lord walking in the statutes of David his father. Only sacrifice and burnt incense in the high places. Because there was no temple as such. But he says he loved the Lord. Okay. God loves Solomon. Solomon loved God. What could go wrong? Something went wrong. What shall we say? You know the old saying Solomon loved the Lord walking in the statues of David. Until he didn't. Until he stops. And it's a warning. A warning to us. Look what Solomon asked for when God appears to him. In verse 9. Oh well actually it begins. It maybe begins in in verse 5. And God said ask what I shall give you. But how many people did God ever say that? Then said to Solomon. What would you like? What do you want out of your king? And Solomon said all the right words. He did. How could how can you? How can you be in him? Look what he says in verse 9. Now therefore he said. Give to your servant an understanding heart. Here we go. An understanding heart. The love. The total being. Give me the capacity Solomon is asking for. To your servant. To judge your people. To discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge those? Your great people. And the word was good in the eyes of the Lord. That Solomon had asked this thing. Well of course God would love it. Solomon believed it. I think. I hope. God said to him. Because you have asked this thing. And you haven't asked for yourself long life. Which is for yourself. You haven't asked for the life of your enemies. But have asked for yourself understanding to judge. So God did. So God did that. And look what he said in verse 12. Lo I have given you a wise and an understanding heart. Solomon got that heart. He got that understanding heart. His whole being was wrapped up with God. At this point. So that there was none like you. None like you before you and after you. No none shall arise. And so God did give it to him. Let's take a look at 1 Kings 4.29. 1 Kings 4.29. Which I'll read a bit. And God blessed Solomon exceeding great wisdom, understanding, and largeness of heart. Big heart. Big understanding. Great knowledge. Great knowledge. More than any king that ever existed before him. Even as the sound that went on the seashore. Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the others. But along with that. It came the big if. Fred has pointed this out. Oh so many times. Let's start out about this if. In 1 Kings chapter 6. 1 Kings chapter 6. So we're here in 1 Kings. We're really not going much of a way out of Kings. 1 Kings 6. And we're going to take it out. Let's see. Yes. 11, 12, 13. And the word of the Lord came to Solomon and said unto him. As to this house which you are building. For when I walk in my statutes. To dine my judgments. And keep all my commandments. To walk with them. That I will perform my work with you. Which I spoke to your father. Dedicated your father. And I will rid them of the children of Israel. And will not forsake my people Israel. But you gotta walk in the judgments and statutes of God. Now turn to 1 Kings 9. A couple of pages over. 1 Kings 9 verses 4 to 7. Well let's pick up in verse 3. Because God appears to Solomon a second time. And we'll know what's up with him in verse 3 of 1 Kings 9. I have heard your prayer. And you go and you read that prayer. In 1 Kings. It is a masterpiece. I don't know how many people could have ever uttered that prayer. Now Solomon was sincere when he uttered that prayer. He has to. I'm saying how you could possibly utter a prayer like that and be deceitful. But as Fred has often told us too. It's not how you start the race of counts. It's how you end it. Solomon started out beautifully. Beautifully. God spoke to him twice. God loved him. He gave him wisdom. Gave him wealth. Prosperity. Oh God gave Solomon everything that you could ask for. But let's continue. We were there at 1 Kings 9. Verse 3. And the Lord said to him. I've heard your prayer and your cry which you have made before me. I have made holy this house which you have built to put my name there forever. My eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. Do you realize what God is saying? His essence. His presence will be there in that house that Solomon dedicated. But here we go. Verse 4. There we go again. And will you walk before me as thou didst your father walk. In integrity of heart and uprightness to do according to all that I have commanded you. And if you will keep my statutes and my judgments. Then I will establish a throne of your kingdom over Israel forever. As I promised to David your father. Yes. But. Yeah. But. And David gave Solomon a warning. And sometimes I shudder when I read of David's warning. First Chronicles 28. First Chronicles 28. Most of the last book in the Old Testament. Which is set in Chronicles. But we're looking at First Chronicles 28. Verse 7. This is God speaking. And I will establish his kingdom forever. Here. Is that if again? It continues. Resolute in keeping my commandments and my ordinances. As he is today. So at this point in time. God acknowledges that Solomon was walking in the origins of God. He was keeping the commandments and the statutes. Yeah. At that time. And now we're beside a broad Israel. The congregation of the Lord. And in the here and by God. Keep and seek for all the commandments of the Lord your God. So that you may possess this good land. And will you look for the inheritance for your children after you forever. This David speaking. Can you Solomon my son. Acknowledge the God of your father. And serve him with. A perfect heart. Heart. Or in other words whole heartedly. With all of your being. With everything you have. And all your might. Need to love God. As we read in Deuteronomy 6. Five. David's warning here. For the word of search is all hearts. Oh yes he does. Things you know. As I brought out before. It's a scientific fact. The way you think of thought. Out it goes. As we say into the universe. And you broadcast. You broadcast your thoughts. God has a huge receiver of whatever it's like. I haven't seen it. But it's heard. And that receiver. Is capable of hearing. Listening. Taking in every thought we think. That's incredible. Mind buff. But. Serve him with a perfect heart. And a withering mind. Now by the way. They got net this year. That's not just thinking. That's the whole within being. It's amazing. And we would have any other way to really translate. So we translate our mind. Because it makes more sense of the English. But really it's your life force. And David is saying to Saul there. What God said to Philosis. To all of Israel. Love the Lord your God. With your heart. Your net mesh. And all your might and strength. For the Lord searches all hearts. And understands all imaginations of the thoughts. Of course he's got his receiver. He's taking in. All the electrical impulses. That you're sending forth. If you seek him. He will be found by you. But here is the dreaded part. For if you forsake him. He will cast you off forever. So warning. Saul and my son. Stay on what we call Torah. Torah path. Stay on the word of Torah. Stay on that road. Obey the Lord your God. That was a warning. 13 now. Verse 10. For the Lord has chosen you to build a house. With a sanctuary. Be strong. And do it. So Saul would start it out right. Solomon started out right. But what happened to him? Let's go to 1st Kings 11. The tragedy. As I say. 1st Kings 11. He started out so beautiful. Herein he did. So verse 11 verse 1. And King Solomon will reborn women. Even the daughter of Zerubbabel. Moabites. Ananites. Edomites. Sabonians. Hittites. Of the nations which the Lord hath said to the children of Israel. You shall not go into them. They shall not go into you. Surely they will turn away your heart. After these gods. After their gods. But Solomon clung to them. That's don't do it. Solomon. No. Remember a song by Paul Simon. Slip sliding. Slip sliding away. Slowly but surely. Solomon at some point. Started slip sliding away. Softly. Gently. He started building temples to pay other gods. Just what God said. Don't you do that. Solomon did it. We're gonna see a difference between Solomon and David. It's coming up here. And he had 700 wives. Princesses of good other concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. In other words, turned his entire being. All his attention. All that he was. No longer dedicated to God. No. Dedicated. Dedicated to himself. He was king. Yes. Look what he did. You know. Sometimes I read. And I read about people who used to belong to the Worldwide Church of God. And left for whatever reason. I listen to what. I listen to what they say. I read what they write. And so forth. And I wonder how they could do what they do. And say what they do. After having gone through. And that sort of call of 40 years. And then out into the field ministry. Sometimes 15 or 20 years. And totally reject everything they were taught. Now some of it. I reject too. There were things out in the extremities. That really did not have a basis in Torah. That's true. But everything. How could they do that? Well. Just read. First 11 verses. First 11 chapters of First Kings. And you'll see how the most powerful man in the world. The greatest king who ever lived. The wisest man. One of the wealthiest that ever lived. And look what happened to him. His heart. He got to control that heart. The entire being. Deuteronomy 6 again. Love the Lord your God with all your heart. All your mind. All your being. At some point. Solomon stopped doing. And we need to beware. All right. All right. Verse 4. For whom to pass when Solomon's earl. In wives turned away his heart after other gods. Yeah. Turned him away. Turned his attention away from the temple. Away from writing out his old version of the law. His old version. But his old copy. He stopped. And. His heart was not perfect with the Lord his God. As was the heart of David his father. Now there's a difference. Between David. And Solomon. I tend to think of it. As Solomon's conversion. Or Solomon's spirituality. Skin deep. He said the right words. He knew the right words. He grew up with the silver spoon in his mouth. He thought father. You know what happened. And he told God. You know it was never my father who walked in your statues. Solomon knew that. The difference where I would say. Is that when David. Was pressed by Nathan the prophet. You're the one David. You're the one who bled this. David fell to his knees. He repented. Sack cloth and ashes. And then God in Psalm 51. Created in me a clean heart. We don't read where Solomon ever did that. We don't read where Solomon ever asked God. To forgive him. Maybe. I don't know. It doesn't say so. And we see no indication. That Solomon ever really returned to God. I'm not going to pass judgment. I'm just one guy. Living in the 21st century. You know. This happened some 3,000 years ago. And so I'm not going to throw stones at Solomon. But when I read. What I read. I shudder. I really do. For Solomon went after Asterix. The goddess of the Sidonians. After Licon. The abomination of the Ammonites. And look at verse 6. Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord. There were some decent kings of Judah. We had Jehoshaphat. We had Asa. We had Josiah. It was never said of them. That they did evil in sight of God. But here it is. I know we had Daneb. We had Omri. We had all the kings of Israel. The northern kingdom. And every one of them. It was said. They did evil in sight of the Lord. And here it's said of Saul. What a come down. What a truckload. How could he have done it? And he did not go fully after the Lord. Like his father David. Okay. Let's quickly turn. Very quickly to Psalm 42. In which year of reference? See the attitude of David. As opposed to Saul. Psalm 42. My fingers will let me get there in time. Here we go. Psalm 42. Verse 1. As the heart has entered from water brooks. So my soul. That is my life force. My netesh. My entire life force. Penance after you, O God. David was trying every which way he could to get close to God. Like animals. You know. It's desert. They're in a desert maybe. Or it's the drying season. They need water desperately. And they're desperately trying to find water. David said he was like that. And it's so written in the Psalm. But you will never find that scent of Solomon. Just won't. Sad. Sad but true. Okay. When he sent his servants, Solomon built a high place for Kibosh. The abomination of Moriah. In the year which is before Jerusalem. For Moriah, the abomination of Jehovah. And when he realized he had given up all his foreign lives. And burned incest. And sacrificed to their God. Have you ever heard of a king named Manasseh? Of Judah. Toward the very end of the destruction. Yep. That's what he did. You can go back and read what he did. Horrible. And verse 9. The Lord was angry with Solomon. God was never fully angry with David. Oh yes. He punished him. Some people think David got away with murder. He didn't. I remember listening to a broadcast sometime. Oh. Years ago. At any rate. Kind of calling him. Saying he would never follow the God of the Old Testament. Who let David commit murder. And adultery. Get away with it. David didn't. God punished him in different ways. God said the sword shall never depart from your house. Remember Absel what happened? And the pillow? Remember that with your sister? Oh David had a miserable family life. The last 10, 15 years or so of his life was not very pretty. But he stays faithful. He stays faithful. God rewarded him for being faithful. Solomon his son was not. And verse 8. Okay. Oh yeah. Verse 9. The Lord was angry with Solomon. Because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel. Who appeared to him twice. Twice God appeared to him. And I said he loved him. And Solomon turned his back. He let his heart be turned away. And the Lord said to Solomon. Verse 11. So this has been done by you. And since you have not kept my covenant. My statutes which I commanded you. I will tear the kingdom from you. And give it to your servant. But I'll not do it in your days. For David your father's sake. But I will tear it out of the hand of your son. And we can go on and read. He won't bother with it. But what a tragedy. Let's not let our heart be turned. But Solomon it was for a limit. And he brought temples to their gods. Also God swore to the kings. Don't multiply horses. He did that too. We could read about the stables and his horses. Always look to God. That heart must be perfect. It must be turned to him. We must love the Lord our God. With all the heart. Our entire being. With our limiting breath. And with whatever might and strength we have. That's the command. That's the way we are going to achieve God's kingdom. Not by human might or strength. Oh no. But by God's spirit. That's the big equalizer. Okay. We've got that. Well now. I want to. Go over. Yes. We have to find out where I put it. What to cover your heart. We have this. In his heart. Phrases. Talk to God. People saying in his heart. Or to his heart. Okay. We'll start out with Genesis 8. We'll go through these quickly. And you'll see a difference. And you'll be able to guess. Which preposition is used. By the context of the verse. Now we're going to start out with Genesis 8. 21. Now this ought to be a. A great giveaway. It was really not ready. For we're going to miss this one. Genesis chapter 8. In verse 20. Genesis chapter 8. In verse 21. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour. And the Lord said. In his heart. Now every time you see that phrase. In his heart. Is one of two prepositions. One is a will. I rounded. L sounding. The other is a be. A bet. A B sounding. Now the bet. Is within himself. Within the heart of man. What did Jeremiah say about the heart of man? So every time you see the bet there. You know it's going to be a bad decision. Not going to turn out right. But every time you see an L there. I love it. That's the individual. Commanding his heart. And basically to do what's right. So. In Genesis chapter 21. He showed him his heart. Do we have a loving? Or do we have a bet? Well you know we have a loving. This is God commanding himself. This is God talking to his heart. Now let's look at 1 Samuel 1 3. 1 Samuel. 1. 3. Full pages here. Okay. 1 Samuel 1. And verse 3 here. And this may. We're out of the place. It's kind of worked out. Okay. We're just 13. Hold on. It might have been 13. What? I'm sorry. Verse 13. Now I never spoke in her heart. Only her lips do. But her voice was very drunk. Well I thought she was drunk. And you read this whole part. Do you think it was a bet? Or a loving? Well I love it. Absolutely. Now. Let's look at Daniel 1 8. Daniel. As long as I get my fingers will get me there. Sometimes I just don't. That's the way I should. I always seem to have that difficulty. In the mother. There's proverbs. And we get killed. We get killed. We have a soft soul around. And we have rules. And orientations. And we should. And play. Yes. Yes. My apologies for getting swollen. Here we go. Daniel. Daniel 1 verse 8. But when he purposed in his heart. That he would not defile himself with the king's throne. Loving. What do we got? A loving or a bet? You know it's a loving. Daniel purposed in his heart. He's determining to obey God. But now. Let's look at two or three others. We'll check it. Let's look at psalms. There are two of them. Psalm 14 1. And Psalm 53 1. But we'll look at Psalm 14 1. Because it says the same thing. Psalm. 14. In verse 1. Here we are. Psalm 14 verse 1. The fool. Has said in his heart. There is no God. There is no God. What do you think we have? A bet? Or a loving? A bet. Absolutely. This is within himself. Apart from God. No Holy Spirit. Now. We're going to look. And we'll also go. And we'll look at Genesis 27. Verse 41. We don't want to take too much time with all of these. So. We'll cut it off here. But look at Genesis 27. Or from Esau. And you know what Jacob did? What did Esau say? Genesis 27. Verse 41. And Esau healed Jacob. Because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said. In his heart. The burdens of my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob. Nope. A bet. Or a loving. A bet. You see. When you use the bet. Bad decisions. When you use a loving. Good decisions. So. You are either. In control of your heart. That your heart is right with God. Your whole being is right with God. And so when you say in your heart. You're saying through your heart. Guided by God. With his spirit. On the other hand. Without God's spirit. You're saying. Within. The carnal mind. With in that heart. Only bad things will come. We all turn to. But remember. In. In. That. And that makes you. But Mark settled. About the food. And eating with unwashed hands. And Jesus said. Don't worry about the food. It goes out with the draw. But what really defiles the land. Are his thoughts. They come from within. That's the bet with him. Mark. Okay. We have that. Now. What I would like to do. Is point out a few things about. How we have. How God calls things. Let us turn to Psalm 710. And we're going to Psalm 710. We're going to look at Isaiah 2040. And we're going to look at Genesis 30 10 27 28. It's all with the same words. So first we've got Psalm. Psalm. 710. Okay. And what we're looking at in Psalm 710. Okay. That obviously is the English translation. But he says. My. My shield is with God. Who saves the upright. In heart. Or saves those who are straight. In heart. Right. Now. Look at Isaiah 30. Keep that in mind. I look at Isaiah 4040. And this is the prophecy. Isaiah 4040. Isaiah chapter 40. I'm sorry. Isaiah. I'm sorry. No. Here we go. There's a zero in there. This is really Isaiah 44. Not 4040. So every valley shall be exalted. Every mountain and hill shall be made low. The crooked places shall be made straight. Okay. Crooked. Is. A call. A call. Isaiah 40 and verse 4. One shall be made straight. Straight is yeshah. Now think of it. A call. A yeshah. So where do you have a word. A call. A call. Comes to mind. How about. Yeah a call. Jacob. Jacob was crooked. He was a conniver. We know that. But yet. He was made straight. Because the Hebrew words. The lyric. In Genesis are the same. As they are here. In Isaiah 40. Amazing power. So let's now go. To Genesis 32. Verses 27. 28. Genesis 32. Verses 27. And 28. And this is just at the time. When Jacob was wrestling. With this individual. Verse 27. He said to them. Said to Jacob. What is your name? And he said. Yeah a call. Crooked. And he said. When we shall go wandering. We'll call Jacob. But Israel. Yes I am. Okay. Yeshah. Yeshah. The letters are exactly. The same. The only difference is. We have what we call a sheen. Which is a bar. And it has three prongs. If a dot's on the right one. Over the right one. It's a she. So. If the dot. Is on the top of the left one. It's an s. So. But it's parallel. So as Jacob. The crooked one. Was made straight. So are the crooked places. In the world to come. Are going to be made straight. And. It's called. Yashar. There in in in Jesus. Psalm 7 10. Yashar. There. A straight heart. And that's how God describes it. A straight heart. Now look at this artist. Look at Psalm 12 2. Psalm 12. And verse 2. It's amazing how God uses the word heart. So much. Psalm 12 and verse 2. They'll speak also of each one with his neighbor. With flattering lips. And a double heart. They speak. Verses live and love. Which means dishonest. A man who is double-legged. Well here's double-hearted. Meaning. He speaks. As the Indians used to say. White man speak with four tongue. Okay. That's what he's doing. Double hearted. That. That's what it's called. Double live the lads. Double hearted. Which means. Dishonest. Now look. We'll come one more. And then we'll wrap this up. Courageous. Look at Amos 2 16. Amos. Chapter 2. And verse 16. So there. Joel. And then we should have Amos. Amos 2 and verse 16. And the stout-hearted. Among the people. Among the life. He shall flee away. Noted in that day. Says the Lord. Stout-hearted. Meaning what? Courageous ones. Stout ones. But it's yours. Stout hearted. And yet it shouldn't be. Because it's courageous. Because God calls it stout-hearted. Anybody remember the movie with. Mel Gibson. Braveheart. That's he brave. Braveheart. A courageous heart. Or if you remember. I remember the TV show. La La Land. Earth. You know. And he's a brave. Courageous. And bold. Well. That would be. Amos. Double. Now as a matter of fact. It would be mighty. Amos. Meaning mighty. Strong. Courageous. That's the heart we got there. So in closing. At this point. Let's remember. To love the Lord. Our God. With all the heart. These embracing that we have. All that we are. Embracing. And then coming down a notch. But adding to it. A physical being. Not just our support. But the actual life force that's within us. And whatever strength we have. Solomon did not do that. And it was tragic. Let's make sure. That we. In our hearts. Using that heart. Stay straight. With God. Brave heart. Mighty in heart. Loyal in hearts. An honorable person. So. Let's all. Be brave. And stellar. Hearted.
