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- 0:02Every person has a mind and a heart.
- 0:11I want you to get that now.
- 0:13Every person that's living has a mind and a heart.
- 0:19The problem today is we're gonna identify good and bad people.
- 0:28We talking real now.
- 0:30See, for years I used to wonder, I said, Lord, they go to church, but they don't have the heart of God.
- 0:39How come?
- 0:42And he started showing me in the scripture about people in their hearts and what God says about a person heart.
- 0:53Ah, we talking real now.
- 0:55I want, if you don't get anything else, I want you to get this understanding now, I want you to look at any one person.
- 1:02Just pick a person.
- 1:03I don't care who it is.
- 1:04You can pick a friend, you can pick a wife, you can pick a husband, you can pick a mother, you can pick a father.
- 1:08It does not matter who you pick, but pick one person, and I want you to evaluate that person according to the word.
- 1:16Now, that one person now.
- 1:21Do they have the heart of God?
- 1:25Now you are gonna know that because Jesus says you'll know them by their fruits or we talking real stuff now.
- 1:37So he says, you shouldn't have to figure out if they are for me or if gives me.
- 1:45Now he calls us a tree.
- 1:48Because we produce fruit, but today we are dealing with the heart of a person.
- 1:55We would love for them to have a clean heart'cause that's what God want us to have.
- 2:00But everybody got a heart, and now we are going to break through some things and understand how God sees a person.
- 2:10We are talking about the motive.
- 2:13A reason for doing something.
- 2:16People got a lot of reason for doing things, but what are the motives?
- 2:21This will tell you where this stands.
- 2:22Let's get ready into Word now.
- 2:24Go to the Book of Psalms.
- 2:26Psalm 51, verse 10.
- 2:30Psalm 51, verse 10.
- 2:34He said, create in me a clean heart.
- 2:39Oh God.
- 2:40Renew a right spirit within me.
- 2:43Now that person, oh, that person's solid.
- 2:46That person's character is solid.
- 2:48We are talking about a clean heart.
- 2:50Now we're talking about a clean heart.
- 2:52Now get this.
- 2:54Now everybody don't have it because it's a gift from God that a person hearts clean.
- 3:05We're talking about somebody saved now.
- 3:07See there's a lot of people going around and try to perpetrate that.
- 3:13They're saved by going, by being religious.
- 3:15Jesus said you'll be able to see through that.
- 3:17Why He said the character will not line up because the character that I have now.
- 3:22I wanna, I wanna do something for you now, but I wanna bless you.
- 3:26Now, there are people that have a good hearts and still not safe.
- 3:34Wow.
- 3:35They do the right thing.
- 3:38Not saved.
- 3:39Now, I know you're saying to yourself, hold up now.
- 3:41How can they do the right thing, but still don't be saved?
- 3:45Savior is a choice.
- 3:49I've gotta be willing to follow Christ to be saved.
- 3:53I don't have to be willing to follow Christ to have a good heart.
- 3:59I can have a good heart just by, I'm a good person, but I'm still not safe.
- 4:05Now I'm gonna flip that.
- 4:08I can be an evil person and still not saved because if I'm gonna fall, if I'm saved, I can't be evil.
- 4:17It can't work.
- 4:19I know y'all saying y'all self, man, this is some good stuff.
- 4:23Or it goes get even better because the word cannot lie.
- 4:28Let's go.
- 4:29Let's go.
- 4:29Okay, now let's drop down a little bit.
- 4:33Let's go Ezekiel.
- 4:35Let's go to Ezekiel, Ezekiel 36, because you know which one of your friends is evil.
- 4:45We are not playing no games with this.
- 4:47You know exactly who are evil.
- 4:49You know which one of your children are evil, but you also know which ones are good.
- 4:56Now, watch this now, because if you get this, you really start to grab a hold of.
- 5:04How powerful this really is in Ezekiel 36.
- 5:09I want you, let's just deal with, with verse 26 real quick.
- 5:15Well verse 26 real quick, A new heart.
- 5:20Also, will I give you, this is God talking now.
- 5:24He says, when you got me, I'm going to give you a new heart.
- 5:29Why?
- 5:30Because the heart you got will never do.
- 5:34The heart you are born with will never do so.
- 5:37Your new birth will bring a new heart.
- 5:41Okay, let me keep on going now and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the horny heart out of your flesh and I will give you a heart, a flesh.
- 5:55See, there's a lot of people got that stony heart mean nothing bothers them.
- 6:01We are talking about that clean heart, that new heart that God will give those believers because he also giving them that spirit.
- 6:11Oh, we done messed up now we done got in the word today.
- 6:14Now, okay.
- 6:15I know you're saying to yourself, well, come on.
- 6:18I never heard nothing like this before.
- 6:21He says, he goes, I can only even get deeper.
- 6:24Let's go to fucking Jeremiah.
- 6:27Jeremiah 17.
- 6:31Now I, I want you to pay attention now because one thing about the word of God, it is real.
- 6:39The problem is most people, they really don't care.
- 6:46They don't, they don't care about the word of God.
- 6:49All they want to do is look good in front of people.
- 6:53No, we talking about really researching the heart.
- 6:56Now, this is what God does.
- 6:57He says, I search the heart now.
- 6:59So in Jeremiah 17, we're going to deal with verse seven through 18.
- 7:06Why?
- 7:06Because it's a lot to pack this.
- 7:08There's a lot, a lot in this, and I want you to get an understanding of this clean heart now.
- 7:17So watch what it says in verse seven as it starts.
- 7:21Blessed is the man.
- 7:25That trust is in the Lord.
- 7:26Whoa.
- 7:28First thing, first you gotta trust who in the Lord and who Hawk is who?
- 7:36Hawk the Lord is.
- 7:38Now I want you to have me because this is where, just'cause you going after the word.
- 7:44Just because you running after Jesus doesn't mean everybody else will back.
- 7:49Even though you say to yourself you can't, no, just because you running.
- 7:54Doesn't mean everybody else will.
- 7:56And you don't say to yourself, because I, I'm telling you'cause I did it.
- 8:01I used to scratch my head.
- 8:02I said, Lord, why don't they run after you like me?
- 8:07He said, they don't have a heart for me.
- 8:10Well, let me go on.
- 8:11I'm gonna give this to you now I'm give it to you.
- 8:12Then boy, he shall be what?
- 8:16As a tree.
- 8:18Oh, remember we were talking about now it says trees produce fruit.
- 8:23I don't care who you are, you can be evil.
- 8:28You still considered a tree?
- 8:30Why you just gonna produce bad fruits?
- 8:33That mean your character is gonna be bad.
- 8:36If you are good that mean and your godly, your fruit is gonna be good.
- 8:41It's not complicated, but we going on now for he shall be as a tree planted by the waters.
- 8:51Now watch this now.
- 8:53And that proceed is out of the, out of her roots by the river and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green.
- 9:06We talking, we we talking about substance.
- 9:08Now this person got character.
- 9:12This person got the water like the water of the river, but it's the water of the word.
- 9:19You show me somebody who following Christ with a great heart and I can show you somebody that knows some word now, the word of God and shall not be careful in the year of drought.
- 9:31That's where we at now.
- 9:32He says, don't be careful.
- 9:34You gonna be blessed in the season.
- 9:36Neither shall cease from yielding fruits.
- 9:40Back to what we were talking about again.
- 9:41He said, your tree, you're going to yield Godly fruit.
- 9:47The heart.
- 9:48Oh, oh, we be back to the heart.
- 9:49Now the heart is deceitful above all things.
- 9:56It's not the mind, the mind is being driven by the conscious of the heart.
- 10:03Uh, lemme say that again.
- 10:04Now the mind is being driven by the heart.
- 10:10Let on, let me keep on now and now watch this.
- 10:14Go and.
- 10:16Desperately wicked, who can know it?
- 10:21You know how many people get in relationship with a person, with a bad heart, with an evil heart, and then they're trying to figure out why?
- 10:32Why can't they love me?
- 10:35Why can't I?
- 10:36Because they got a bad heart.
- 10:39They don't have no heart of love.
- 10:41They don't have no heart of compassion.
- 10:44That's why a bum can walk by and it doesn't bother them.
- 10:49Let me come on now.
- 10:51We don't, we we didn't step in.
- 10:52Now we just gotta keep on going now.
- 10:55But watch what he says in verse 10.
- 10:57I, that's God, I the Lord.
- 11:02Search what?
- 11:03I search the heart.
- 11:05I try to reign.
- 11:08Even to, it wasn't a even to give every man according to his way and according to the fruit of his doing, he said, I know what you are and I'm going to give you according to who you are.
- 11:27Why do you think I expect to be blessed?
- 11:30Why?
- 11:31I know my heart.
- 11:33I'm not trying to be deceitful.
- 11:35I'm not trying to rob or lie from my neighbors.
- 11:39I wanna be a good neighbor, not just to the people who next door to me, to everyone I come in contact with.
- 11:48But we going on now as the pot ridge straight sit and the pot ridge sit on the egg and hatches them.
- 11:57Not watch this now.
- 12:00So he that get as riches and not buy right.
- 12:05Wow.
- 12:06Shall leave them in the midst of his days and at his end shall be a fool.
- 12:14He has a lot of people.
- 12:15They're gonna be very well off.
- 12:18They're going to have extremely, plenty riches, he said, but the, but they ain't got it the right way.
- 12:29Got it by doing right.
- 12:31He said, don't worry, once they're dead, they're gonna be called a fool.
- 12:36Well, they're gonna be called a fool before, but he's showing you the mark.
- 12:39Well, let me go on.
- 12:40I'm telling you.
- 12:41So in verse 12, a glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary all Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee.
- 12:59Shall be ashamed.
- 13:01Oh, lemme say that again.
- 13:02Now.
- 13:02All these countries, now that's forsaken in earth.
- 13:05Don't worry about that.
- 13:06God got that.
- 13:07He said they shall be ashamed and they that apart from me, shall be written in the earth because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.
- 13:21The living water we know is a word.
- 13:24See, when we see word, we represent water because it sustains us.
- 13:29It says, heal me, oh Lord, and I shall be healed.
- 13:34Save me, and I shall be saved for thou aunt my praise.
- 13:42Come on now.
- 13:43I know sometimes you, you'll scratch your head and you be like, Lord, they're not getting it.
- 13:48He said, yeah, but the scripture is being fulfilled.
- 13:51He said, Lord, in line.
- 13:52Yeah, but the scripture's being fulfilled.
- 13:54He said, don't think you could get a pass.
- 13:58He said, if you connected to me and they hit me, they're going to hate you.
- 14:04But it goes on.
- 14:06It goes on now.
- 14:08Watch what it says.
- 14:10Behold, verse 15.
- 14:12They say unto me, where is the word of the Lord?
- 14:19Let it come.
- 14:20Now, you know how people always trying to tell the Lord what to do?
- 14:26Always have a doubt.
- 14:29Okay?
- 14:30Okay, we talking, but a clean heart.
- 14:32He'll give us now a new heart.
- 14:34Hearts as for me, I have not hasted.
- 14:41From being, watch this now a pastor to follow thee.
- 14:48Neither have I desired to willful days.
- 14:53Thou know is that which came out of my lips was right before thee.
- 15:00Now what?
- 15:01You hear me now See when you know what comes outta your lip is right before God.
- 15:06You are not worried about how people perceive it.
- 15:12I'm gonna say that again now because see, they're going to hate you anyway.
- 15:16If they don't have the heart of God, that's not gonna be a shock to you.
- 15:21Well, let me go on.
- 15:22Let me get it down.
- 15:22Now, watch this there, but not a terror unto me.
- 15:28He said, now be not a terror unto me.
- 15:32Thou aren't my hope in the day of evil.
- 15:35He didn't say evil not coming, he said, but that's my hope God.
- 15:40Let them be confounded.
- 15:43That persecute me.
- 15:45Persecute coming.
- 15:47Stop trying to avoid it.
- 15:50Let them be dismayed, but let not my, let not me be dismayed.
- 15:57Bring unto them the day of evil.
- 16:01Describe them with double destruction.
- 16:05Oh, we talking now, we talking about a clean heart.
- 16:08He says, Lord, give me a new heart, because you have to have that.
- 16:14Now.
- 16:14I know you're saying, I know you're saying to yourself.
- 16:16Man, I've never heard such revelation.
- 16:21Uh, I guess more, it's more, it's more go The book of Hebrews.
- 16:27Hebrews chapter four.
- 16:29Hebrews chapter four, verse 12.
- 16:32Hebrews chapter four, verse 12.
- 16:37Now, watch now because this is how powerful the word of God is.
- 16:42For the word of God.
- 16:45Oh, we just talking now for the word of God is quick and powerful and shoppers than a twoedged sword piercing evil to the dividing.
- 17:02Watch this down as under a soul and spirit and of the joint and marrow.
- 17:10And is a discerner of the thought and the intent of the heart.
- 17:20See, that's people problem they got in their mind because they heart is evil and they're always trying to deceive other people that trick other people.
- 17:34But he said, the Lord knows your thoughts now.
- 17:38Well, let's go on now.
- 17:40Let's go on.
- 17:41Let's go to Proverbs 4 23.
- 17:46Proverbs 4 23.
- 17:51You know why I love Proverbs so much?
- 17:53Because Proverbs shows your character.
- 17:58Proverbs shows your character.
- 18:02Yeah.
- 18:03That's why a lot of people don't like it, but Proverbs is heavy.
- 18:06So in, so in in proverb, verse four, verse 23, he says, keep thy heart with all diligence.
- 18:17For out of it are the issues of life.
- 18:21When people cursing, they're speaking from their hearts.
- 18:26When people are lying, they're lying from their heart.
- 18:32Their actions, whether it's adultery or murder or stealing, it's from their heart.
- 18:39Your behavior is being driven by the character of your heart.
- 18:46A lot of people want people to be godly when they don't have a godly heart.
- 18:51That makes no sense.
- 18:54I expect evil people to be evil.
- 18:59Why?
- 18:59It makes sense.
- 19:02When I go to the zoo, I expect the animals to be animals.
- 19:07Why?
- 19:08We need to lock'em up because they're not going to act right according to our society.
- 19:15If you want'em to be free, let'em free, and then'em do what they normally do.
- 19:20Kill.
- 19:21Let me go on, I'm, I'm gonna go on now.
- 19:24Proverbs three five.
- 19:27Proverbs chapter three.
- 19:30Verse five, trust in the Lord with all thy heart.
- 19:39Okay, let, let me break this down now'cause I, I think I need to bless somebody today.
- 19:42Now, wouldn't it be great for somebody to love you with all they heart?
- 19:51Who wants somebody to love them with part of their heart?
- 19:57Who want their children to love them with part of their heart, who want a parent to love them with part of their heart.
- 20:08The word says, trust in the lovers with all thy heart and lead, not unto thy own understanding.
- 20:17What do we do?
- 20:19We lean our own understanding.
- 20:21There are people, they know nothing about the word of God, or they know so little that they're trying to figure it out.
- 20:32He said, lean not to your own understanding.
- 20:34Why?
- 20:35Because your understanding gonna be wrong the way you think is wrong.
- 20:43Okay.
- 20:43Okay.
- 20:44Okay.
- 20:44Hold on, hold on.
- 20:45Let's go to Psalms 34 verse 18.
- 20:49Psalms 34, verse 18.
- 20:53We talking about a clean heart.
- 20:56He said, renewing me a new heart.
- 21:00Don't.
- 21:00No, don't leave that the old hearted me.
- 21:03Gimme a new heart.
- 21:04So in Psalms 34, verse 18, it says the Lord.
- 21:11Is not unto them that are of a broken heart.
- 21:16Now, why do you think it says the Lord is close to them that has a broken heart?
- 21:21Uh, I'm gonna get to that in a minute.
- 21:22I just, I just want you to think about it real quick.
- 21:24Lemme finish the verse down and say such as be of a contrite spirit.
- 21:32So when a person you, you know, you know why I, I, I just trust the Lord because it's gonna work out for me no matter what.
- 21:40See, I love it.
- 21:40All my heart.
- 21:41You know why?
- 21:42'cause it's gonna work out for me no matter what.
- 21:44Why?
- 21:45Because you have to get to the point where you're gonna trust God and, and if God is allowing a person in your life, you gotta trust God to make that person do right?
- 21:59Oh, we talking real now.
- 22:00See, when you get to this point, hell, you stop worrying about people behavior.
- 22:07You start worrying about being right with God.
- 22:11See when you are right with God, he fixes everything else.
- 22:15Okay.
- 22:15Let me go on now because I wanna get you to get this now.
- 22:18See, the part that we're trying to get you to understand, let's just say,'cause I, I've dealt with people who had their heart broken.
- 22:29I, I, I've listened to'em who had their heart broken.
- 22:34Now, what does the word say?
- 22:36The Lord is close to that person because they have loved.
- 22:41The Lord says, I'm close to you now, remember now, if you, if somebody can break your heart, that means you cared.
- 22:56That means you are trying.
- 23:02Let me, let me help you out a little bit.
- 23:03Now, there are people that no matter what somebody do to'em, it doesn't bother them.
- 23:08Why?
- 23:09Their heart never in it.
- 23:11Their heart was never in it.
- 23:14So they could only go so far in this thing called love in this thing called trust.
- 23:20But when you put it all in there, so, okay, man, it's fragile.
- 23:26What you got.
- 23:28But if you do hurt it, the Lord says, okay.
- 23:32I'm, I'm close to you.
- 23:33I ain't gonna leave you alone.
- 23:35Well, let me go on, let me go on.
- 23:36I, I think I'm ready for this right here now, because see, he's trying to teach us some things that's important.
- 23:43We talking, give us a new heart, give us a clean heart, the heart that we gotta have to be true service.
- 23:51Let's call Ezekiel.
- 23:53Ezekiel 11 verse 19.
- 23:56Ezekiel Chapter 11, verse 19.
- 24:01Oh, that heart is something else now.
- 24:03And I know y'all thought, I thought it was just the heart now.
- 24:06Oh, so much more.
- 24:08So Ezekiel chapter 11, verse 19.
- 24:12Let's deal with this.
- 24:13Now.
- 24:14Now, now I'm not saying the damn same thing, just to a different person and I, God will give them one heart.
- 24:24Whoa.
- 24:26Whoa, this is good now, and I will put a new spirit within you and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and will give them a heart of flesh.
- 24:42All he's saying is I'm going to get you the love at a depth.
- 24:47That wasn't available before.
- 24:49I'm get you to understand and behave in a way that they never done before, but don't stop there.
- 24:58Let's go back to Proverbs 21.
- 25:01Proverbs 21, oh.
- 25:06The word is just something by itself.
- 25:07You said, I don't need no help.
- 25:09I can do this all by myself.
- 25:11So in Proverbs 21, verse two.
- 25:16Every way of a man is right how in his own eyes.
- 25:25But the Lord ponders the what?
- 25:28Heart.
- 25:29I'm gonna say that again.
- 25:30Now, every man in his own eyes think his way is right, but the Lord, he, he's looking into the heart, the heart of the matter.
- 25:46Wow.
- 25:47Why do you want this?
- 25:49Why are you doing this?
- 25:52The Lord looks into this thing here and he says, uh, you really are not for me.
- 25:58But we going on, we going in the book of James, oh, James, chapter four, verse eight.
- 26:10We are talking about the heart of a person there.
- 26:13See, once you start to understand this, people don't fool you no more.
- 26:17In James chapter four, verse eight, he says, draw a eye to God.
- 26:23Now remember now, first they told the people with with a broken heart, it said God will draw a eye to them.
- 26:28But watch what he says in James, draw a knife to God and he will draw a knife to you.
- 26:36Cleanse your hand, you sin.
- 26:40And purify your hearts.
- 26:43You double-minded.
- 26:45You got some people, they'll be left today.
- 26:48They'll go right tomorrow.
- 26:49They'll go left today, they'll go right tomorrow.
- 26:51He says, stop.
- 26:52Be double-minded.
- 26:54Draw night of God.
- 26:57Watch God draw outta you.
- 26:58Now I'm gonna help Y out a little bit'cause I know people miss this now.
- 27:02Forget husband and life, husband and wife relationship.
- 27:05Forget father and son, father and daughter, mother and son, mother and daughter.
- 27:09Forget that kind of relationship'cause you're not getting discs when you are talking about drawing a knife to God and he'll draw a knife to you.
- 27:18Your step might only be one inch, just to give you a example of distance, one inch, but God's draw to you will probably be like a hundred miles.
- 27:32Because his love is different than ours.
- 27:36I was as contingent on what can you do for me?
- 27:41God's love is unconditional.
- 27:46Okay.
- 27:46Okay.
- 27:46Okay, hold on then.
- 27:48Let's go back.
- 27:49The first Samuel.
- 27:52Let's go to First Samuel chapter 16, verse seven.
- 27:59One Samuel Chapter 16, verse seven, but the Lord said unto Samuel, look not on his continent.
- 28:11Don't look at how he looks, how tall he is, how, how big he is, or on the height of his statue, because I God again, have refused him.
- 28:24This is talking about David Brothers now.
- 28:28For the Lord sees not as man sees for a man looking on the outward appearance, but the Lord looking on the heart.
- 28:40See, David had some big brothers and when he was coming to pick the king from Jesse.
- 28:48Samuel was looking at their statue, how tall they was, how big they was.
- 28:54Now, the Lord didn't say David wasn't big.
- 28:56He never said that.
- 28:58He told Samuel, yo, you are looking incorrectly now.
- 29:04Here's the blessing for y'all.
- 29:07And he couldn't do what the Lord did.
- 29:10He can't look at somebody's heart.
- 29:13The Lord is only one to it.
- 29:15He was telling Samuel, stop choosing until I tell you which one I chose.
- 29:23See, today people are keep trying to choose God messenger.
- 29:28You can't choose him.
- 29:30You have no, you have no ability to choose him.
- 29:34Only God can choose his messenger.
- 29:37There lies the average church problem.
- 29:42They choose wrong, and the person believe wrong now, all of them on their road to destruction.
- 29:48Why?
- 29:49Because the blind leading the blind.
- 29:51But I ain't stopping.
- 29:51There we are going straight back to the word now.
- 29:54First Timothy one Timothy chapter one, verse five.
- 30:02One Timothy chapter one, verse five.
- 30:07Oh, y'all are messed up today.
- 30:09Y'all came and woke up.
- 30:13Now watch this.
- 30:15Now we talk about that new heart, a clean heart, and a person.
- 30:20We talk about somebody who saved now.
- 30:23Now the end of the commandment is charity Out of a pure heart.
- 30:34And of a good const conscience and of faith on fringe.
- 30:44But all these things, if a person is doing it because they want to do the right thing, a person is doing it because of their faith in God.
- 30:55A person is doing it because they got a good conscience.
- 31:01To want to help somebody who's falling on hard times.
- 31:08You got many people today, they go to church, they call the name Jesus.
- 31:13They call on the father, but they wouldn't give a dollar to a, a, a homeless person who's hungry.
- 31:21They would, they would throw away a piece of a sandwich instead of giving it to somebody who's really hungry.
- 31:33See, we get to the point where we gotta be God to a lot of people.
- 31:37Well, I'm not gonna give this person no money because they gonna buy drugs.
- 31:41What is that to you?
- 31:44You can't tell what they're going to do.
- 31:47You can't read nobody heart.
- 31:51I'm so sick and tired of all these religious people say, well, I'm not gonna, you ain't doing'cause you evil.
- 32:04That's all it is.
- 32:06Stop trying to control everything and allow God to be God.
- 32:15I hope you enjoy having the word of God.
- 32:18We are talking about Lord, give me a new heart, a clean heart that I can be truly saved.