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Prosperity Gospel – Femi Adeleye – Cape Town 2010 – YouTube
The Heart is the Core of a Person’s Being–Harold Eberle
Harold R. Eberle
The Western worldview leads people to think that the mind with all of its intelligence and thought processes is the core of our being. In contrast, the ancient Hebrew worldview recognized the heart as the governing center of a person’s being.
As the writer of Proverbs said: Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life (Proverbs 4: 23).
Where the heart is pointed determines where a person’s life will go. A person’s future, destiny , relationships, victories, and failures are all determined by where his or her heart is pointed.
If their heart is oriented strongly enough then they will obtain the training, experience, and knowledge necessary to accomplish what they desire. On the other hand, if their heart is timid, filled with doubt, undetermined or undirected , then they will not succeed no matter how much knowledge they possess.
The heart also determines what strengths and weaknesses will be drawn from other people. This is true because wherever the heart is pointed determines to whom a person is bonded. Those to whom we open our heart become anchors for our life. To some degree, their strengths become our strengths and their weaknesses become our weaknesses. We become like the people with whom we associate. Therefore, our heart is a doorway for the character we develop in the future. Because the heart determines the life of a person, it is more important for a person to develop their heart than it is for them to develop their intellect. This truth is foreign to the Western mind, but central to ancient Hebrew thought. Further elevating the importance of the heart is the understanding that the heart is what accesses the spiritual realm. With the heart a person senses things in the spiritual realm. With the heart a person believes and anchors his or her life in God.
Eberle, Harold (2009-12-28). Christianity Unshackled: Are You A Truth Seeker (pp. 219-220). Destiny Image, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
An Incredible Time of Peace – Kris Vallotton, Bethel Church – YouTube
“Two men enter a house through the chimney. ” Richard Wurmbrand
As early as 1912, Lenin wrote the following in a letter to Russian author Maxim Gorki: “Millions of acts of violence, of illnesses and epidemics, are much less dangerous than the most purified, the slightest idea of a God…. God is the personal enemy of the Communist society.”
He also wrote, “Religion is a kind of spiritual vodka, in which the slaves of capital drown their human features and their reverence for a somehow dignified human life.”
There are those who choose to think like Lenin; but there are also multitudes who choose to believe in God.
To you it might be doubtful if God exists, but the following Jewish story surely exists:
A rabbi put the following question to a man in his congregation: “Two men enter a house through the chimney. The one is dirty, the other clean. Which of them washes himself?”
The Jew replies, “Surely, the dirty one.”
“No,” says the rabbi, “because the dirty man sees that the other is clean, so he presumes he is clean, too. The clean man, seeing the dirt on the other, believes he is dirty also and washes himself.
“Now I have a second question,” continues the rabbi. “Two men enter a house through the chimney. One is dirty, the other clean. Which one washes himself?”
The Jew answers, “Now I know: the clean one.”
“No,” says the rabbi. “The clean man looks at his hands and clothes and sees they are clean, so why should he wash? The other man sees that he is dirty all over, so he washes.”
The rabbi put a third question: “Two men enter a house through the chimney. One is clean, the other dirty. Which one washes himself?”
In despair, the Jew shouts, “Both!”
“Wrong,” says the rabbi.“If two men enter through a chimney, how can one remain clean? Did you not see that the question is foolish?”
So any human questioning of God is foolish. If there were no intelligent Creator, there would be no intelligent being to put questions or to deny the intelligent Creator. God simply exists. Even the assertion that He exists is a condescension to the unreasonableness of ordinary thinking.
Wurmbrand, Richard (2011-05-24). Proofs of God’s Existence (Kindle Locations 325-341). Living Sacrifice Book Company. Kindle Edition.
The Resurrection Argument That Changed a Generation of Scholars – Gary Habermas at UCSB – YouTube
DC Talk – Jesus Freak (Live) – YouTube
DC Talk – Jesus Freak (Live) – YouTube.
What will people think when they hear that I’m a Jesus freak?
What will people do when they find that it’s true?
I don’t really care if they label me a Jesus freak – there ain’t no disguising the truthKamikaze, my death is gain – I’ve been marked by my Maker, a peculiar display
The high and lofty, they see me as weak – but I won’t live and die for the power they seek.
What’s Wrong with Calvinism?
Through the house the child would shout ‘Abba!’—William Barclay
William Barclay 1907-1978
Like most people brought up in an evangelical home I did not at first know that there was any other way of thinking of the Atonement except in terms of God laying on Jesus the punishment that should have been laid on me… It seemed to me that the whole conception starts from the wrath of God, while the New Testament starts from the love of God. It was because he so loved the world that God sent his Son into the world (John 3:16). It was his love that God showed to us in the death of Christ for us while we were still sinners (Romans 5:8). Never in the New Testament, never once, is God said to be reconciled to man; it is always man who is reconciled to God. We plead with you, says Paul, on behalf of Christ, be…
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