We are the Heart of God - Internal

Conceiving, Carrying, Communicating, and Committing to the Cause of the Vision

I Thessalonians 5:11
ESV: Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
MSG: So speak encouraging words to one another. Build up hope so you'll all be together in this, no one left out, no one left behind. I know you're already doing this; just keep on doing it.

Assignment

• I have the Treaching  Assignment & Opportunity to explain once again of why “We are the Heart of God” is a highly valuable Vision for you, we, & me here at BCC. 
• When i insert Treaching- (teaching & preaching that’s reaching)
• Teaching truth & transformation from the Word, principles in leadership, & concepts of Jesus as The Christ 
• Preaching passionately & inspiringly under the power of The Holy Spirit, and
• Reaching every1one with engaging, creative, & relevant content that is helpful 

a few troubles; a few testimonies

• whether you are struggling with an identity crisis, or you are battling with behavior or beliefs, while repentance has caused some Christians recently to return, reconcile, & be restored to the joy of God’s Salvation; for others light has shined gently into darkness and caused secrets faults of sexual sins and the embarrassment to be forgiven and erased, or someone could be teetering in their gender identity & insecurity, some in abuse, some in addictions, abortion issues, others perhaps are on the right vine, but overly ripened ready to dry up from the so called divine and fall off the religious rigor and stop trying to do right anymore, 
• So whoever we are & wherever you are in troubles or testimonies, Jesus The WORD wants to richly write this Vision upon your heart & live & give, more & more on the Inside of you!

Notice...vision in the heart & as the heart is...

• Hab 2:2 And the LORD answered me: "Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.
• Psalm 45:1 My heart overflows with a good theme; I address my verses to the King; My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
• therefore, i want to write the vision on the tablet of your heart speaking as a ready writer of God for us to be living letters
• it is impressed upon me to impact us as for the reaching of souls sincerely, therefore i pull out this most special & sacred of scriptures...

2 Corinthians 3: 2 The only letter of recommendation we need is you yourselves. Your lives are a letter written in our hearts; everyone can read it and recognize our good work among you. 3 Clearly, you are a letter from Christ showing the result of our ministry among you. This “letter” is written not with pen and ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is carved not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts. 4 We are confident of all this because of our great trust in God through Christ. 5 It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God. 6 He has enabled us to be ministers of his new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spirit gives life.

the Heart of God ministers the Spirit of the message, no longer the legality of the letter

• my encounter of understanding the difference between law of the letter versus spirit of the letter... from a FedEx Sr. Mgr. in a meeting about Policy & Procedure
• this is a principle of universal application, not confined to a theological debate of OT Law versus NT Grace, but rather The Message & Ministry of God’s Heart toward ppl
• for the letter killeth; but The Spirit giveth Life!
• in vs.17 For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty and freedom! 

in our heart is internal

• 2 Corinthians 1: 20 For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory. 21 And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, 22 and who has also put his seal on us and given us His Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
• Romans 5:5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

what is the internal process?

• prophetic principle*- what comes from the Eternal becomes Internal and then lives out into the External
• Ezek. 2: 8 "But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you."
• Ezek. 3: 2 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat. 3 And he said to me, "Son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it."Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey. 4 And he said to me, "Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words to them.”
• Eternal to Internal to External - doing/being

• I could say when I was little i kinda did this literally... a penny- i ate, swallowed it, & it was in me. My mom x-rayed me and we saw it, and then it came out externally! Today we have have MRI, Ultrasound, Sonogram,  & all forms of x-rays virtually looking at us internally, 
• 2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?
• Let us Examine ourselves, Test ourselves with, Are we in the faith, of little faith, or where is our faith? A Better Challenge- What do we believe or disbelieve, Doubt or Need to Dispel?

Let's dispel the myths & misunderstandings

•   God is NOT a One Time Thing Big Experience Back When
•   God is NOT only a “i was raised a Godly Christian.” (i.e.- family traditions, heirloom, moralistic, good ppl, nice person, & yes D6)
•   God is NOT only a “when you need HIM entity.”
•   God is NOT only for “the bad ppl, problem ppl, poor ppl.”
•   Therefore my summation to submit is:  “GOD is Worth, HE Wills, and HE Provides the Way to have More & More of us!”
1.   Worth- the return, our investment, (lil’ sad to say in today)
2.   Wills- wants, always has, longs for mankind, as HIS Own
3.   Way- everything God requires, HE Gives & Becomes WAY

God provided the way for our internal

1.  First Puts A New Heart in us
2.   Then He Himself, GOD, Moves Internal into our New Heart
3.   Next He Writes HIS Laws upon our New Hearts
4.   Now we are the eternal life, born-again, saved new hidden person (spirit) in our heart

"We are the heart..." is internal in our heart

• First Puts A New Heart in us
• Ezek 11: 19 And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, 20 that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them.  And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 
• Ezek 36: 26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. 
• Then He Himself, GOD, Moves Internal into our New Heart

• John 14: 23 Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
• Next He Writes HIS Laws upon our New Hearts
• Hebrews 10: 15 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, 16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds," 17 then he adds, "I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more."
• Now we are the eternal life, born-again, saved new hidden person (spirit) in our heart
• 1 Peter 3:4 but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
• the heart- a) denotes the centre of all physical and spiritual life vigor, sense, & the centre and seat of physical & spiritual life; ---the soul or mind, as it is the fountain and seat of the thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, affections, purposes, endeavours of the understanding, the faculty and seat of the intelligence; of the will and character; 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

Internal in our heart we want, will, hunger

• There has to be a contrast and a desire for GOD that goes beyond need. 
• If we only want GOD when we need GOD, then proficient ppl will not want Jesus Christ and needful ppl will never progress to proficient ppl.

R* why we can not be like David only after God’s Heart, but Much Much Greater Will, God did not just make a way,  NO! Jesus Christ is The Way

• Acts 13: 22 ... he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, 'I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.'
• Jesus is NOW with us, and in us, Jesus is The Way, The Truth, & The Life.  And As HE IS So Are we in this world! 
• We are the Heart of God, Jesus & HIS Spirit is Internal
• We must Open up our hearts, not 1 time but every time Eternal to Internal to External