Podcast Episode 14: A Man After God’s Heart – Pt.1

Episode Transcript:

[00:00:00] Luis Urrego: [00:00:00] Welcome to the 10,000 worlds podcast. My name is Luis Urrego and it’s an honor to have you here listening today on this episode number 14 of the podcast. Once again, I want to thank you for being a listener and thank you for taking your time to tune in today and thank you also for sharing, spreading the word about the podcast as well as.

[00:00:24] A website, which is 10,000 worlds.com that’s the number 10 the letter K. And then the word worlds, that com 10 K worlds.com. And you can find there are videos as well as all of the previous podcasts and um, and many other things are our blog posts as well. And just share the information and content with everybody, uh, so that the word can get out there and be something that it would help them.

[00:00:52] Uh, if it has helped you, then. Help somebody else with the content as well. I wanted to go ahead and on this episode. [00:01:00] I’m wanting to share with you one of my favorite sermons of the year. So far. Of course, the year’s not over yet, but, uh, uh, one of my favorite sermons of the year that’s really touched my heart and, and has dealt with me is, um, it was a sermon back, uh, in October.

[00:01:18] We were at, um. I had attended the man’s a man’s meetings there in Hickory, North Carolina, and uh, there at brother Barry coffee’s church and a brother Aaron McGeary preached a wonderful, marvelous, um, masterpiece called a man after God’s own heart. And I believe that everyone that was in attendance there, that they, uh, it touched them some way or another, uh, even though they were just men there in the, in the, in the sanctuary.

[00:01:53] Um. There were man just blessed just crying to the Lord after the service. [00:02:00] And I’m just really wanting to change. So I want to dedicate this sermon to all fathers out there. Pastors, um, just man of God. Man who are trying to serve the Lord in this hour that we live in. I want to encourage you to just look beyond the flesh.

[00:02:22] Sometimes we have to just look beyond the flesh, because remember what the word says? That our battle is not with flesh and blood, but with, but with powers and principalities of the air spirits, uh, in the air. That that’s what we wrestle with, that come in annoyed individuals. And sometimes we, uh, think that we’re wrestling against somebody else when really the problem could be you or me.

[00:02:48] It could be your, you, you could be that you’re the problem. Or the Brandon said himself that he was his worst enemy. And so this, uh, message talks about, goes in those [00:03:00] areas using David’s life as well as Saul’s life. And so this will be part one of this sermon. And then. Next week. Lord willing, we will play part two, but just pay attention and I trust that you will be blessed as you listen and I’ll come back after after the cutoff.

[00:03:20] I’ll come back with my final thoughts for this episode. And so may God bless you as you listen. Praise

[00:03:29] Aaron McGeary: [00:03:29] the Lord. Hey man, I wonder if we could just approach the Lord in prayer before we read our scripture. Our gracious heavenly father is such a wonderful atmosphere amongst men of God tonight. And I know, Lord, just by looking out myself, seeing many faces that perhaps are for the first time in a men’s meeting like this, and Lord, I just pray that as we sent something special, we would just have a welcoming spirit as we invite you to come.

[00:03:56] And Lord, even if we had just worship together, there would have been [00:04:00] something that was off lip uplifted in our spirits, and even a measure of sanctification that comes to our minds through that. But Lord, we did not gather merely to worst support to see one another, but that you would speak your word plainly to our hearts.

[00:04:14] So Lord, we stand open before you tonight praying that you take control of this part of the service for your glory. We commit ourselves to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. I’d like to read from acts chapter 13 a few verses there. Acts chapter 13 and I am. I’d like to express myself personally.

[00:04:37] What a tremendous honor it is to be an attendee this weekend at these men’s meetings and to have the privilege of sitting in these chairs and hearing the ministry of the word has made a tremendous difference in my life as a Christian, as a, as a man, as a husband, as a father. And so to be able to come, and I know not everyone is able to do it, and there’s probably just as many who [00:05:00] aren’t here who wanted to be here.

[00:05:01] As are here, and many different reasons why perhaps some can’t make it. So the fact that we are here, I think we can all say we’re very, very grateful to be here and just honored to be here and for myself personally, uh, still being a young, young man, a young minister, still trying to find his way and path in life.

[00:05:18] I consider it a great honor and privilege. I have to be able to share the pulpit with great men of God, men that I look up to, the different ones who are here ministering by the Tim Dodd, a brother Jason Watkins, but at fiscal, I look up to them and they’ve meant a lot to me as friends. And to be able to share in the ministry just a tremendous, a tremendous honor.

[00:05:38] And I’m very grateful for that. And I appreciate by the very, uh, his vision he has for this. And then also the privilege that he extends to myself to be able to minister. And I w I’m going to this, this will be perhaps my last, uh, uh, comment before we read our scripture and just begin to preach.

[00:05:55] I’m not going to apologize for how long I preach. [00:06:00] Because we did not spend the money that we spent and travel as far as we have to get a sermonette. So we’re not going to start with one. We’re not gonna end with one, and I ain’t gonna be none in between. Uh, so I just wasn’t going to come and do something light tonight.

[00:06:14] We’re going to go ahead and just hit it full speed. Acts chapter 13 verse 21. And afterwards they desired a King. Acts chapter 13 verses 2122 and 23 and afterwards they desired a King and God gave unto them soul, the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin by the space of 40 years. And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their King, to whom also he gave testimony and said, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, which shall fulfill all my will of this man’s seed, have God according to his promise, raised under Israel a savior Jesus.

[00:06:57] Amen. You may be seated [00:07:00] I, my title is a man after God’s heart. A man after God’s heart. And, uh, I would, I know that you’re able to do so, but perhaps just by way of mentioning it, I trust that you’ll be able to focus intently tonight. There’ll be a lot of things perhaps that we reference or say that we’re just really hitting the main point that in themselves, you could take some time and examine it and bring it out of the message and scripture, but we just want to just.

[00:07:27] Put it in there and know that if you had questions or if you wanted to see it more thoroughly in the word, perhaps we could follow up on it personally that there’s a lot of things we’ll mention that we just want you to hold in your heart and focus on him as we mentioned him and to say a man after God’s heart is Jesus or God.

[00:07:43] Even speaking says a man after my own heart, which shall fulfill all my will. He’s speaking of David. He has a heart that was willing to conform to the word, the heart that was willing to be molded and conformed to the word. So I’m going to say some things in the beginning that are [00:08:00] really, uh, what I’m going to be amplifying, uh, through the rest of this service.

[00:08:04] But a man after God’s heart is one who absolutely depends upon God and completely obeys his word. A man after God’s heart is one that absolutely depends on him and completely fulfills his word. And to say that this speaks of the process of character development and not just instances of obedience or instances of disobedience, because if we just looked at a heart after God’s heart or a heart, as we might say, a Heartlight God’s is, sometimes it’s paraphrase, but if we’re just looking at a heart after God.

[00:08:36] Uh, that God likes regarding joys or God sees and we make it just a no disobedience or no mistakes, then none of us would have them. But a man after God’s heart is one who is, has a particular disposition or nature that God likes and a man after God’s heart is not one who is perfect, but one who can be perfected.

[00:08:56] And a perfect heart is not one that never makes mistakes, but it’s [00:09:00] one that grows and learns from their mistakes. And so foundation for this weekend. We’re just, we’re, it’s our job to open it and to begin it, I want to start looking at and considering matters of the heart and issues that relate to our spirits and, uh, and not necessarily our souls.

[00:09:18] And I’d like to start in Genesis chapter 18, verse 19. Mother very had read it in the beginning. It was the theme that was expressed for this, this weekend’s meetings, and he’s speaking of Abraham, he says, for I know him, and when he says that he knows him, this has something to do with the election.

[00:09:35] He says, I know him in Matthew chapter seven verse 23 it says, depart from me, he that work iniquity, you workers of iniquity. I never knew you. And they could have many wonderful works that they had done in many religious works that they had performed, and perhaps a signs and wonders that would be staggering to the human mind.

[00:09:52] But God declares the part for me. I never knew you. And so he says of Abraham, for I know him, and [00:10:00] he will command his children and his household after him. So when you contrast that, when God looks at workers of iniquity and says, I never knew you, and then notice what he identifies about Abraham, it tells us something about what God values.

[00:10:14] That many can do. Religious works in many wonderful works, but then God says, you’re a worker of iniquity. I never knew you. But when he says he knows Abraham, he says he will command his children and his household after him. To some people, they wouldn’t think he was very spiritual. But yet this is something that God values.

[00:10:31] And he says they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment that the Lord may bring upon Abraham, that thing which he had spoken of him. So he had the kind of, I know him and I know the way that he is, and I know the way that he’ll command his children. I know how he’ll govern his household.

[00:10:47] He’ll do it in such a way to where the very things I’ve prophesied over him. We will be completely fulfilled. And you see the same thing as he begins to speak about David. He is one who will fulfill, fulfill all my will. [00:11:00] I want you to ponder this tonight. As we think about the statement, God says, I know him.

[00:11:05] What was it that God knew about Abraham? And he says, I know him. What was it he knew? Is that w, was it his past? Was it his upbringing? Was it his family history? Was it his future? We know that he didn’t have the Holy ghost or the new birth, like we can have it right. So God wasn’t saying, I know he’s had a genuine experience of the baptism of the Holy ghost.

[00:11:25] God wasn’t commenting on his genealogy. It wasn’t calling on his lineage. Uh, it doesn’t even say in the Bible that there was any particular anointing that came upon Abraham where God knew how he was animating him. God knew how he was annointing him. God knew how he could focus his thoughts and, uh, govern his conduct by anointed.

[00:11:44] And God doesn’t refer to any of those things. But what gave God confidence in Abraham. We can look in the scriptures, we can look in the message and find. Brother Graham said Abraham constantly made mistakes. He doubted God. He lied about his [00:12:00] wife. And there’s things that you could bring up about Abraham in the old Testament, bring the scriptures on and say, well, it wasn’t that he was mistake free.

[00:12:06] It wasn’t even that he came from a lineage of worshipers of God. And I propose that what God knew it was his heart and the potential of it. That God knew something about Abraham that was at the heart of him. It was a heart that could be shaped. It was a heart that could be guided. It was a heart that could be influenced.

[00:12:25] It was a heart that could learn because he says, I know him, that he will command his children, that he will command his household after him, that they’re gonna keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment, and that everything I’ve said about them will be fulfilled. He was looking at something inside of Abraham when he said, I know him.

[00:12:42] Many scriptures that we could use, but just to lay this out there, because I say I’m proposing that God knew his heart. The Bible says in acts 15 eight God, which know with the hearts in Psalms 44 21 it says, for he know what the secrets of the heart, Jesus says in Luke 1615 [00:13:00] years, they which justify yourselves before men, but God know if your hearts for that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God.

[00:13:09] So when God says, I know him, it isn’t his actions. It isn’t his deeds. It isn’t his works or his ability to justify what he was saying or doing. But it was the heart and Abraham that was being taught and that was being motivated. He says, I know him, despite his mistakes, despite his weaknesses, and I mean, I want you to really catch a hold of this tonight because there’s a lot of grace that’s being ministered in, approaching it this way.

[00:13:34] I know him. Despite his failures, he’ll ultimately make it right. He’ll ultimately get it right, that regardless of Abram’s record, to this point, regardless of Abraham’s record, to this point, I know him. He’ll make it right. You’ll get it right. He’ll do justice. He’ll do judgment. We could even say the same about job that God knew job.

[00:13:58] There was something about him that he [00:14:00] knew, and as God is having his conversation with Satan, he says in one place about Joe, he’s a perfect and an upright man. One that feareth God, an issue with evil and what he’s speaking about a, he says, instill he hold it fast. His integrity, even though you’ve moved me against him.

[00:14:19] He’s a perfect and upright man. God knew something about him, and God himself identifies that he uphold, he holds fast. His integrity and integrity is a condition of the heart. It relates to a man’s character. It relates to his spirit, his disposition to speak of integrity. There’s something that was unimpaired about him that he, even though he had been buffered, even though he lost things, even though he was being maligned.

[00:14:44] He would not, uh, curse God. He would not judge God unfairly. He would not accuse God. He maintained his integrity. And integrity is a condition of the heart. It says of David that David walked in the integrity of his heart. It [00:15:00] says, a kingdom a have been Molech with God said, I know us, that Dow did us in the, it did this in the integrity of by heart.

[00:15:07] So when you speak of integrity, it’s a condition of a man’s heart. So I say the heart matters. There are issues in our spirit and issues in our mind and in the heart of a man that the word must touch. We understand that we are all trying human beings. We are soul, spirit, and body. And I make reference to the heart.

[00:15:28] It encompasses a lot of things. It could be used to refer to the soul, and I’m gonna come to this in a moment, but the soul even is a resides within the heart. And so when I speak of heart, I’m referring to the entire spirit, our minds, our emotions, our thoughts, our feelings, and our instincts.

[00:15:45] It could be said that the the man’s spiritual person as a human, his personality is comprised of the head, the chest, and the belly. And the head represents the intellect. The belly represents the instinct. And if we’re all heading belly, we’re really not men. We’re [00:16:00] animals. And so you can have a head, which is intellect.

[00:16:04] You can have a belly, which is instinct, but the chest is the heart. And we have to be men with chest. Not men without chests, but men with chest that have a heart. There’s something really even at the center of our spirits, because you could use a heart to refer to intellect. You could refuse. You refer to the heart to refer to instinct or even reflect.

[00:16:21] But tonight I’m really wanting to focus on the chest of a man. Men with chest and listen, the world has an image of a man that is not God’s image of a man, but we want to be in God’s image of a man. And so we are soul, spirit, and body. And brother Branam outlines it and in the message and know what that naughty says, that’s three rings, three circles.

[00:16:41] He says, no, that’s you. Body spirit, soul, or soul. Spirit. Body says those three rings. That’s you. That’s God. God in a Trinity is one and without a Trinity, he’s not gone. He can’t be manifested any other way. Now notice how he’s saying that God is manifested through that. Then [00:17:00] he says, and neither can you be manifested without being the Trinity person that you are.

[00:17:05] That’s body, spirit, soul. Without either one of them, you are not complete. I, and he’s talking about us as a person, but there’s a, there’s a layer to this. I think that it’s very important to catch. He says, you didn’t have a soul. You’d be nothing. You didn’t have a spirit. You wouldn’t be nothing.

[00:17:21] You didn’t have a body. You just be a spirit, not a body. So there’s that. You have to have all three to be complete and all three are linked together. You can’t just take the soul and examine it separately. The spirit examiner separately, the body, they’re all linked together. They’re all connected.

[00:17:38] The body contains the spirit. The spirit itself holds the soul. Brother random even goes so far to say that within the physical body, they found a compartment. He says in the heart. He says, and that’s where the soul is. So there’s these things are all together and can be looked at completely, but brother Bram says, without either one of them, you’re not complete.

[00:17:57] So you have the soul, the spirit, and the [00:18:00] body, and that represents the complete person. Now I want you to begin to think about redemption and completeness then. Then if you’re not complete without all three, now think of the process of redemption because the new birth changes the nature of the soul.

[00:18:14] It regenerates to life, and that’s the perfecting of the soul. The soul has been perfected and God gives us the baptism of the Holy ghost to resolve the sin question. It’s the guarantee of the resurrection, and that’s a work that takes place in the soul of a man that is, that essentially renders the soul perfect.

[00:18:31] I say essentially, let me not qualify it. It renders the soul perfect. You’re listening to future home. It’s already in the eighth day. There can’t be anything added to it to make it any more eternal or any more perfect. The baptism of the Holy ghost renders the soul perfect. Then we know that the translation, the time of the resurrection of the sleeping saints and the change of the body of those that are living the translation is a change of the body and the climax of the raptures, the perfecting of the flesh.

[00:19:00] [00:19:00] And so there’s going to be a perfection of even this body, the Soma, this outward part of the men. And we even know that divine healing is for the flesh or for the body, and that God, by way of a promise will resolve certain sicknesses or illnesses within our body. And even in doing that, God is testifying that there will be a translation and that there will be a new body.

[00:19:21] So the, if the individual is a body, spirit, soul, and God has by his word, provided a birth to render the soul perfect. God has by his word provided divine healing and then ultimately the translation to render the body perfect. God’s word, providing for the perfecting of the soul and the body. Now what about our hearts?

[00:19:41] What about our spirits? Then. Because when everyone says you’re not complete without it, and I do not believe that God wants to renew your soul complete and one day renew your body complete. And when it comes to your heart to say, Oh, well nevermind. But the Bible says in first Thessalonians five 23 [00:20:00] and the very God of peace sanctify, which is purify you, you purify you Holy, that’s complete in all respects.

[00:20:08] So he says, I prayed, God, your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless under the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. So his prayer is that your whole spirit, soul, and body. So now he has taken you those three circles and your complete person. And his prayer isn’t just that your soul would be preserved blameless, or that your body one day would be changed in a moment and tweaking the VI.

[00:20:32] But he says, you’re a whole spirit. So the entire person is to be purified and sanctified wholly, completely in all respects. And it says the word preserved blameless. It’s easy perhaps just to say that, to think of in the sense of, well, may God keep you sanctified and keep you purified, but then that really doesn’t convey the whole thing.

[00:20:54] Especially we who know we haven’t always been purified. And those of us that know that are not always sanctified, [00:21:00] but it actually means the word preserve blameless. It means to undo anything that’s wrong. So there is no fault. So to be preserved blameless. It’s an undoing to be preserved blameless.

[00:21:11] It’s the undo things that are wrong. It’s to reverse things that are incorrect. Let it be preserved. Blameless, your whole spirit, soul and body. Just as God undid the sin that was in the soul and killed out that serpent nature and brought the dub nature and your soul. He wants to undo anything that’s wrong so you can be whole and complete.

[00:21:32] It’s not that we’re just trying to find a place we can put our foot and say, am I perfect? No. Am I perfect? No. But there’s a process of undoing. There’s a removing and a healing of anything that’s wrong in your soul, spirit and body, so your heart matters to God. We know that we’re taught, that God chose the heart, and Satan chose the head of the mind and in, in brother Branam doing that, it certainly is God.

[00:21:58] It’s a reference to the [00:22:00] soul versus the intellect and emotion that God chose. The heart, the soul, the, the, the, the, the inside of the inside. That that’s what God chose at. But yeah, we’ve got to understand that that’s within the heart. Within the spirit. And so God chose the soul or chose the heart.

[00:22:16] Satan chose the intellect or the emotion, but that doesn’t mean God disregards the emotions. It’s not that simple. God, I got your soul lift. The devil had your mind. Because the greatest battle ever fought is in the mind, but we can’t just look at it as the battleground battles are usually fought on ground that wants to be conquered.

[00:22:38] And since there’s a fight and two forces are meeting on that ground, it’s not just a battle in the mind. It’s a battle for the mind. And because God wants to put the soldier on the battlefield, it’s because he wants . Do come correct completely. So we don’t want to rock routes, and I’m just warn in my mind, I’m worn in my spirit and there’s always going to be a battle.

[00:22:58] But since God’s there [00:23:00] fighting, it means he wants to conquer it. God wants to own it. God chose your heart, but he doesn’t disregard your intellect and your emotions and the spirit of the man. He says, I want that too. But Satan shows that and God’s coming after it.

[00:23:22] So the baptism of the Holy ghost, which is the new birth, does not resolve all the issues of the heart. Only one person said, right, well maybe you don’t have the whole baptism of the Holy ghost is when you get it, you realize it doesn’t resolve all the issues of the heart, of the spirit of a man.

[00:23:41] The baptism of the Holy ghost is salvation of the soul. And once you’re silver is the Holy ghost. If we only acted from the soul, we would never be impatient. If we only acted from the salt, we would never doubt when we would never misspeak. We would never misbehave. We [00:24:00] would never have a negative emotion.

[00:24:04] There’s a lot of questions. Perhaps I could ask, but what would cause a lie? Just Juniper tree experience. Yeah. What, when causes that I, and I say this and I trust you, you know, I’m not just being flippant about this. I’m being very, very sober. When I says what would drive a prophet to attempt suicide twice?

[00:24:24] Are we taking issue with his soul? We can take issue with his experience with the baptism of the Holy ghost. Are we going to question whether or not he’s had a new birth? I don’t think we would do that. So we realized there’s something that a man can go through. There’s issues that can be within the heart.

[00:24:37] There’s things that reside within the spirit of a man that he wrestles with and can cause great difficulty. How can a gifted called and anointed man preach the gospel but not be able to love his wife correctly?

[00:24:55] Probably more importantly is what makes him stay that way.

[00:25:01] [00:25:00] Yeah. What causes him to always justify it by the gift. Always justified by the calling. Always justify it by the people that look to him and how he’s used and how it travels and all those things, and cannot love his wife correctly, but his gifted is called and anointed. What causes that? Yes. Yes.

[00:25:21] Good. What makes men who claim to have the Holy ghost verbally abusive? Financial, irresponsible, distant, detached fathers. I’m glad you all still. Amen. Good man. Again, what makes them stay that way? Maybe we could answer the question. Well, we know why. You see their family history, you see how they were raised, you see the type of ministries they sat under.

[00:25:51] You see certain abuses they endure, and we can say, well, I know why they act that way, but the question is, why do they stay there?

[00:26:00] [00:26:00] you can, you can come to the conclusion, well, they just need the Holy ghost. And I would say, if that’s true of a man who’s gifted and called an anointed, and he still needs the Holy ghost, then it’s still an issue of the heart that keeps him from it. Yeah. You’re not gonna be able to construct a scenario in the word of God that disregards the condition of a man’s heart.

[00:26:23] Because even if we said there was a young man here, a man here today, that he has certain attributes and characteristics and patterns of in and out and knocked and down to make some mistakes, and you say, that man needs the baptism of the Holy ghost. He’s not showing up to my hearing for the first time that there is a new birth experience.

[00:26:41] He knows there is one, and as failure to this point to get one is probably an issue with the heart. He’s got a heart trouble. No. And

[00:26:54] listen, this is a, this is not psychology ahead. I’m gonna just [00:27:00] address that head on. This is not psychology. People try to stigmatize gifts and healings and worship and prayer lines and certain things, they’ll try to stigmatize that as Pentecostalism or fanaticism. And some on the other hands will stigmatize teaching and doctrine and men’s meetings and marriage banquets and things like that as psychology and formalism, well, they’re both wrong because what we go by as the word of God, we look to the word.

[00:27:30] If it’s in the word, we believe it. If it’s in the word, we can have it. If it’s not in the word, you can’t have it. And so we take our, we take our cues from the word of God. And there, there may be a temptation to even look at gatherings like this and call it psychology. It’s not psychology. It’s only the person who feels threatened by it that wants to call it psychology because it doesn’t fit their preconceived humanistic ideas of how they think things should be operated.

[00:27:54] So we don’t want to make a mistake on any side fanaticism or formalism or psychology or Pentecostalism. We [00:28:00] want to stay right down the middle of the word of God. It says in Hebrews four 12 that the word divides among the body, soul, and spirit. That’s what the word does. The word will divide among the soul, the spirit and the body in it says, it is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

[00:28:19] The word does that. It’s a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

[00:28:28] Yeah. You say, and I think perhaps there might be something I think of a lot in terms of people saying, well, you just need the Holy ghost.

[00:28:38] You’re the random one. He’s referring to an issue of one, not receiving the Holy ghost. And I said, you’ve been praying for it for years. He said, I’m not scolding you, but if you don’t have it, you’re either don’t understand you mistaught or something’s wrong somewhere. You either mistaught. Or you don’t understand what you’ve been taught or something’s wrong somewhere.

[00:28:59] And [00:29:00] in the, in the T quote he’s talking about right faith, right heart, he said, if your heart’s really right, what is he talking about? Not the condition of the soul, because that’s what needs the new birth. That’s what needs to be changed. But he’s talking about the emotions of a man, the thinking of a man, the heart of the man.

[00:29:15] And that can be actually be a hindrance to him. And Luke chapter eight verse 15. And it’s talking about the four types of ground, and we’re just going to skip to that, that last part, which is called good ground, but it’s four types of ground in this parable. The wayside, the rock, the thorny ground, and the good ground and the condition of the ground determined the harvest, the condition of the ground determine the yield or the effectiveness of the word.

[00:29:41] And so in verse 15 Luke eight 15 says, but on the good ground, are they. Which in an honest and good heart, having a heard the word, keep it and bring forth fruit with patience. And you can take these and we don’t have the time to do it tonight. And I do have a rule, and maybe it’s an unwritten rule, and I hope [00:30:00] I’m not pulling back the curtain too much for the ministers, but you’ve got to go at least as long, twice as long as the song service

[00:30:11] So these are diff, these different conditions or grounds, different types of ground can be represented as different conditions of the heart, the wayside, the, the, the, the Stony ground or the, the, the hard compacted ground, the, the ground with thorns in it. It can all be describing the spirit of a person, the heart of a person.

[00:30:30] And these different grounds had different responses, or the word had different levels of effectiveness based upon the condition of the ground. And so it is the condition of the heart, not the soul that would determine when you receive the Holy ghost. Now, I’m not going to say whether, because if you’re elect, you’re coming to it, not elect cannot be quick and only the elect can be quickened, but their random says at least 54 times.

[00:30:54] He uses the phrase, the right mental attitude, and he’s referring to any divine promise of God will bring it to [00:31:00] pass the right. What? Attitude? Mental attitude. The right mental attitude towards any divine promise. So it’s so also with the baptism of the Holy ghost, it’s the condition or the disposition or the attitude of the mind will determine when you’re yielded to receive the baptism of the Holy ghost.

[00:31:18] And then even based upon what we read in Luke chapter eight, the condition of the heart will determine how you fruitful you are in the work of the Holy ghost. It eight 14 it says, but that those that were had the thorny ground, he says they bring no fruit to perfection. Why? Because the heart was encumbered with cares and pleasures and riches.

[00:31:39] And so the condition of the heart determines how fruitful you are in the work of the Holy ghost is the condition of the heart that causes difficult and failed marriages. The condition of the heart. The Herald Beckett has a sane divorce as two selfish people living under the same roof. [00:32:00] That’s a condition of the heart.

[00:32:02] As brother Nathaniel wrote in his song and talk about prayers being hindered, it’s the husband’s attitude towards his wife that can, that hinders his prayers. Bible says in Colossians three 19 husbands love your wives and be not bitter against them. Be not angry or irritated or harsh. If you reach the stage of contempt, your intern to that last days, that many, uh, counselors will say, you’re nearing divorce.

[00:32:26] we might even have a stigma associated with a divorce within the message, and while we’re just going to gut this out for testimony’s sake or whatever, but what you’re not willing to acknowledge is heart issues that bring you to a place where you’re irritated with your spouse. You’re irritated, you’re angry, or you’re a harsh towards them.

[00:32:42] Paul is actually instructing men to love their wives and be not angry, are a harsh or unreasonable against them. To me. This is beautiful. This scripture here in Matthew chapter 19 verses seven and eight they came to Jesus and say, Hey, is it okay for us to divorce our wife for any reason? [00:33:00] And, and Jesus basically challenges them on this notion and they sent it to him.

[00:33:04] Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement to put her away. Cool. You’re saying that we can’t just put her away for any reason. Then why did Moses allow us to do it? Notice what he says in verse eight Matthew 19 eight Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives.

[00:33:24] So when Jesus is going to deal with divorce, he doesn’t put it on anything else, but the hard heart of a man. That would come to a place where he would put his wife away. Jesus didn’t even say, well, if you remember in the beginning the woman fell and that’s where all the problems are with women.

[00:33:40] And Hey, you know how a woman can be, you know, and Hey, it gets finally gets to a poor. It’s like, Hey, you might as well get a new one. Cause you know, she’s kind of worked herself up into tizzy here. So go. Finally, I said, no man, it’s your fault. You have hard hearts. That’s why there’s divorce.

[00:33:55] Let that sink in for a while. It really looked really [00:34:00] ponder that what Jesus wants to identify when he says why Moses gave a rid of divorcement. It was the hard hearts of men, not even the failure or the weaknesses of the woman. Cause he says in the beginning it was not so before the heart had fallen.

[00:34:16] Before the channels were clogged. Adam as a perfect man did not put away his wife, but he acted under a single marriage covenant to redeem her in her weakness and in her heir. And there’s a lot of women that have done a lot less and men abuse their wives by challenging. Brett Graham said, if you trim your hair complete your way cause you have a hard heart, you do this, I’ll put your weight cause your heart, heart.

[00:34:43] I had a pastor tell me that if you prayed about something that he told you otherwise to do, you’re an unfaithful spouse and as a pastor he could put someone away in his church for that. What does that, that’s a hard heart. Yeah. The condition of the heart is the reason [00:35:00] for angry and discouraged children.

[00:35:02] Oh yeah. He say, Oh, the children’s angry hearts or the, the children discouraged. Yeah. But it’s the condition of the parent’s heart that causes it. Frustrated. Parents breed frustrated children, impatient spirits impose impatience upon children. There’s a way that we compare it. If you parent from pride, you’re guiding your child the wrong way.

[00:35:23] There’s certain ways that you approach that. You address issues and discipline. There’s ways that you go about it. You’re actually sewing weakness into your child. You’re disturbing their spirits and it begins with the heart of the parent. The causes that. Klosters three 21 fathers provoke not your children to anger less.

[00:35:39] They’d be discouraged. Who’s doing the provoking? The man is doing it the way he acts, the way he thinks, the way he wants to discipline his child. Actually souls within the child anger and it discourages them. So whether you want to take the council to husbands in verse 19 the council to fathers in verse 21 or what Jesus says in Matthew [00:36:00] 19 it’s addressing the heart of men, not the soul in need of a word birth.

[00:36:07] Paul’s not walking us through steps to get the baptism of the Holy ghost. I believe he’s assuming the baptism of the Holy ghost and instructing and teaching men how to love their wives and how to raise their children, and he’s having to deal with their hearts to do so. It’s the condition of the heart that’ll determine the extent to which the power of Christ can operate through you.

[00:36:28] This can be amplified to a great degree, but we’ll just use this one example. It’ll actually determine whether or not you defeat death. I’ll read a statement from the paradox, but brother Brandon gives the vision of the black mambas two thirds of the way to the Jordan. We’re coming to that third pool that black mama represented certain death.

[00:36:44] Everyone was scared to death of it, and brother Bantam talked about how he was able to speak to it and bind it. And then the voice came in from above me and said, you have been given power to bind him the worst or any, I think in one place he says the greatest [00:37:00] to the least. So now he has power to bind death, which is the greatest and anything underneath it.

[00:37:06] So now it’s a declaration that all powers given to me. If in my hands I have power to, even by death and every demon subject to death, I’ve got power over all of it. I think the speaks to the heart of the profit. If we’d been told that, we just would have turned around and said, I’ve got a job to do, but brother random actually in his heart says, well, God, what must I do?

[00:37:27] That’s the kind of heart you should have. Oh, you’ve given me power. I’m just going to run out and do it. He understood that with power comes responsibility. I can’t have this kind of power without knowing how I ought to operator. He says, what must I do? He said, there’s one thing you must do. You must be more sincere.

[00:37:46] You must be more sincere. I said, well, God, forgive me for my insincerity. Let me have some security. Why? Because the operation of power depends upon character.

[00:38:01] [00:38:00] This is a condition of the heart. Sincerity is a condition of the heart. The etymology of the word sincere actually makes no reference to pottery and whether or not there’s wax over it. And I think that sometimes it’s can confuse really what’s meant by sincerity. We don’t have hearts full of wax and we’re not trying to hide anything in our hearts, but we want to have sincere hearts where the Bible speaks of a pure heart.

[00:38:23] That’s something God can do to your heart. This is a condition of the heart. They determined sincere to you, not the soul. Yeah. God wasn’t chastising the profit that needed to go back to the alter and get the baptism of the Holy ghost. He says, you have power to defeat death. Well, then what must I do?

[00:38:41] Be sincere. Amen. There there’s a, there’s an irreverent attitude many times among men towards message and towards church order and towards teachings and certain things, and irreverence is stench to God. There’s got to be sincerity with this. In Proverbs chapter [00:39:00] 19 verse 21 it says, there are many devices in a man’s heart.

[00:39:05] Nevertheless, the counsel of the Lord that shall stand. So there’s a contrast here, how the man’s heart is naturally, naturally contradicts God. It’s not in harmony with God’s way. We know that the Bible speaks of an immunity that exists between the two. There are many devices in a man’s heart, but the counsel, Lord, that shall stand.

[00:39:23] Devices. It speaks of thoughts or plans. It actually speaks of calculations, judgments, imaginations or considerations. As you read the word and what it means and how it’s used, it speaks of, there’s many ways of assessing value in a man’s mind is the way that he looks at things and values. If there’s a way that he processes things and assigns a value to it, and many times what we need is the word to change our value system.

[00:39:49] Proverbs 16 one and two, the preparations of the heart and man, and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. The preparations, the value in the ordering, the schemes that are in a man’s heart, [00:40:00] the arrangement in his heart. It can be said that man schemes and man plans, that’s what man does.

[00:40:05] There’s preparations and of the heart is in man, but it says in the answer, the tongue is from the Lord. In other words, men cannot think or act wisely without God’s assistance. Because then his base nature in his heart, it’s not an agreement with God, and then it continues. All the ways of man are clean in his own eyes, but the Lord with the spirits, and there was a man schemes and man plans and a man acts and a man to a man, his conduct is justified because he rationalized with it first.

[00:40:35] And it’s amazing how many times people say, well, I’m just doing what I feel led. And the point you’re trying to make is what you’re doing is wrong. So question the leadership. Yeah. You can’t always just use the, it’s just, well, I’m just doing how I feel led. I’m just doing the best I can. I’m just doing how I feel led.

[00:40:53] If how your lead isn’t producing the right results, if how you’re being led isn’t results that line up with the word of God, [00:41:00] then what you’re doing is all the ways of man are clean in his own eyes. Man thinks he’s right because he rationalized it first, but God judges the rationalizing, he judges the rationale behind it.

[00:41:12] Why are you doing it? The rationale. God looks to that he weighs the spirits. Proverbs 28 26 he trusted in his own heart is a fool. I say about a man, if he represent himself in court and a man who has himself for a client has a fool for a client, he that trusts in his own heart is a fool. Are you need the Holy ghost working on that heart.

[00:41:37] Jeremiah 17 nine to 10 the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked the heart. It doesn’t qualify it if you’re an Aries or if you’re a cancer, if you’re this. No. Just as the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know it. God can. He’s the one that searches the hearts.

[00:41:58] So this is the, I [00:42:00] believe, Lord, search the heart. I tried the reigns, the seat of emotions, the affections. I tried the rains even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doing. The Bible, the word speaking to the heart of a man, the preparations in his heart, the devices in his heart, the new evil inclination of his art, the way that it deceives, it wants to act.

[00:42:19] Therefore it does. Then it rationalize, the action comes up with reasons and justifications. It’s desperately wicked and deceitful. So it says in Proverbs four 23 keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life, life issues from the heart. The issues of life are usually heart issues.

[00:42:43] Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life. Jesus said, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaker actions, thoughts and actions and words, they’re, they’re born from our thought process. They’re born from the things that are in our mind. Things [00:43:00] enter in, we ponder them, we process them.

[00:43:02] We act upon them. Keep that heart with all diligence for out of it issues, life and activity and action and thought. Proverbs 23 seven for as he think it’s in his heart. So is he, even though it might be speaking of that wicked counselor with canteen and whatever he says, and whatever he might do, it’s what’s in his heart that really speaks to how he is.

[00:43:22] This is a principle of mankind as he thinks, as the reasons, as he calculates in his heart. That is how he is a man, acts from his heart. Imagination, conscience, memory, reason, and affection. But the fiscal shared at one time as my car, M. I. C, a. R, a. Memory, imagination, conscience, affection, a reason, if you have a hard time remembering it, but the fiscal mentioned that years ago, my car to remember that those are the senses to the spirit.

[00:43:52] Those are devices within a man’s heart. That’s what a man will act from. So he said before, born again, man does not [00:44:00] always act from the function of his soul. If he did, he would never air. If he’s born again by the Baptist logos and he operates perfectly and purely from the function in his soul, he would never falter in attitude and affection and action.

[00:44:16] He would always be perfect and without fault. But in the dynamics of the person, soul, spirit, and body, our hearts, our spirit or our minds become a filter on what is received and then what is lived. But Graham talks about a thinking man’s filter. It talks about many different things that could be used here.

[00:44:35] The Arbor spirits and our minds, our experiences, our memories, our affections, all those things can become an influence on how the word is projected in our lives. For the random says in the message, greatest battle ever fought. He says, you accept him on the basis of his word. That is what means everything.

[00:44:53] That word, if you can get everything out of the way, all conscience, all senses, and just let the word [00:45:00] come in. That word will produce just exactly. That could be used to refer to instances of receiving healing or a time when you need a promise in the word of God, but now think about this and being the whole expression of the word through it in a person’s life.

[00:45:13] If you can get everything out of the way, all conscience, all senses, senses, and let the word come in, it will produce. Exactly. He says, here’s, see what’s get covered over with what’s covering it up. You say, well, now these things, his conscience and senses and so forth don’t have anything to do with it.

[00:45:31] Brother Brenham. I was just addressing this directly addressing this. You say, well, brother bam, your senses, your imagination, your mind, your heart, almost things. That’s just psychology has nothing to do with it, brother Brandon. Certainly it does, but if you let the word come in, so now the words in and cover it over with conscience, then it can’t grow.

[00:45:52] It’ll be a deformed word. So I can come in, but if conscious gets between the expression, [00:46:00] if some something in your heart gets between the word that wants to be lived and words coming to word, it’s wanting to be expressed. It’s wanting to be lived. The word can come in, but you cover over. It was something in your heart, then it can’t grow like it should.

[00:46:13] He says it’s a deformed word. So did you ever see a good grain of corn planted in the ground and let a stick fall over? Good grain of corn. Nothing wrong with the ground. Nothing wrong with the corn. But if something impedes its growth, he says it will grow crooked. Any vine, anything that grows up will because will, because something has hindered it.

[00:46:34] So brother is not questioning whether or not the ground is good. He’s not questioning whether or not the corn is good and a seed in the ground. Oh, that’s fine. God’s word is true. The individuals elected, but yet there’s something that’s not being expressed properly in their life. Don’t question your election.

[00:46:50] Don’t question the word. There’s something laying over it. That’s perverting discretion. Alright, in there you have part one of the [00:47:00] message from brother Aaron McGarry entitled. A man after God’s heart. I hope that you’ve been blessed with what you’ve heard so far, and you know, saints, it’s awesome.

[00:47:10] Luis Urrego: [00:47:10] You can learn so many things from the life of David and the time of Saul, David, and all those different characters there in first Samuel, second Samuel, first Kings in second Kings. There are wonderful. Uh, not just spiritual lessons, but life lessons as well. And just to see how, even though David had, uh, he, he fell many times, just like you and I, we fail many times, but you know, it’s one thing to fall in, into sin and to stay there in that Myrie pit, in that mud.

[00:47:46] But it’s another thing. To just get back up and remember your goal, remember the cause and continue fighting. And that’s a true soldier. And that’s one of the characteristics that David, [00:48:00] uh, showed forth in his life that even though he had made a huge, terrible sin, made a huge mistake thinking of an of his own self.

[00:48:10] Yet when the time came for him to repent. And the word of the Lord came to him and told him, you are that man that committed adultery and that killed somebody’s husband. He was quick to repent, and I believe a true believer should be that way. So I thank you once again for tuning in. Be sure to listen to part two of this message as we will have it available.

[00:48:36] Um, next, uh, on the next episode. And of course, you can go to, uh, uh, Hickory Bible tabernacle website. Uh, if you want to just listen and watch the video there, uh, their website is he Curry Bible tabernacle.org, and you can go to the services section and just search for a man after God’s heart.

[00:49:00] [00:49:00] May God richly bless you as you continue the rest of this week. And remember, saints, your soul’s worth 10,000 words. So remember to make sure you feed that soul this week. And until, until, until next time, I wish you the best. May God richly bless you and may you take care.

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