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The willing heart is still prized in God's sight today just as it was when the Tabernacle was being built. Your tithes, offerings, and free-will contributions to the Kingdom should come from a willing, cheerful, grateful heart because of God's grace and love for you.

View this on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyP1743WxDE This sermon examines the visit of the Magi in Matthew 2 to explore the tension between spiritual distance and proximity to Christ. It highlights God's sovereign grace in bringing those who are far away, including those with occult backgrounds, into a relationship with Jesus, while simultaneously warning that extensive biblical knowledge does not guarantee a transformed heart, as illustrated by Herod and the scribes. The message encourages believers to recognize that seeking Christ and growing in faith require diligent effort and struggle, countering the notion of passive spirituality. Ultimately, the passage points to the profound joy found in knowing the Lord and the appropriate response of wholehearted worship and service.

The Tenth Commandment reaches beyond your actions to the desires of your heart, challenging you to be content with God's providence rather than coveting what He has given to others. Your continuing struggle with sinful desires should drive you to Christ, not to despair or self-reliance. In fact, your grief over sin and desire for holiness are signs of the Spirit's work within you. You will always need Christ's forgiveness in this life, while trusting the Holy Spirit to keep renewing you until the day you are made perfectly holy.

This sermon examines the conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees regarding the observance of the Sabbath, highlighting how religious tradition often supersedes genuine compassion and divine grace. By referencing the account of David eating the showbread, the text argues that the Sabbath was instituted as a blessing for humanity rather than a burdensome legalistic requirement. The narrative contrasts the Pharisees' hardened hearts and plot to destroy Jesus with the faith of the man with the withered hand, who is restored simply by believing Jesus' command. The central message calls for a surrender of self-righteousness and a reliance on the sufficiency of Christ, urging listeners to recognize that salvation is a gift of grace received through faith rather than achieved through human effort or rule-keeping.

The Lord's Prayer begins in a place that should arrest our attention. Before Christ teaches us to ask for bread, forgiveness, or deliverance, He teaches us how to come and what must come first. We come to God as "Our Father," but only because Christ has brought us near. And when we come, the first request on our lips is not about our comfort, our plans, or our needs. It is, "Hallowed be Your name." That petition exposes the order of our hearts. Do we truly desire God's glory above our own? Do our lives agree with the prayer we speak? In Matthew 6:9, Christ gives us more than words to repeat; He gives us a pattern that reveals who God is, who we are in Him, and what should govern the life of every believer: access to the Father through the Son and a life ordered toward His glory.

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(AI Generated Summary) This sermon explores the necessity of the new birth by examining the nature of the human heart, which is described as a complex entity comprising mind, affection, and will. The central argument posits that every person is inherently driven to seek happiness, and the direction of this pursuit determines one's spiritual trajectory. By citing examples such as Jesus, Moses, and early Christians, the message illustrates that true contentment is found only in obedience to God, whereas setting one's mind on the flesh leads to hostility toward God and ultimate death. The teaching concludes that because the natural heart is deceitful and unable to submit to God's law, regeneration is not optional but essential for seeing the kingdom of God and finding rest.