A Heart of Stone!
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Reverend Larry Deering
Scripture
Mark 3:5
5He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, Stretch out your hand. He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored.
Luke 8:15
15But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.
Matthew 5:8
8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Hebrews 3:10
10That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.'
Jeremiah 17:9
9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Matthew 7:22-23
22Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?'
23Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
Psalms 139:23-24
23Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Ezekiel 36:25-29
25I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.
26I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
27And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
28Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.
29I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and make it plentiful and will not bring famine upon you.
Ephesians 2:1
1As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
Revelation 3:1
1To the angel Or [messenger]; also in verses 7 and 14 of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits That is, the sevenfold Spirit of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
Matthew 13:15
15For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'
Proverbs 4:23
23Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Colossians 3:1
1Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Philippians 4:6-7
6Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
7And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 3:17-19
17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
18may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Acts 16:14
14One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message.
Matthew 22:37
37Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
