Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "What if God" Acts 2:22-41
Lannie Road Baptist Church 5998 Lannie Road Jacksonville, Florida 32218
Thursday, December 27, 2012
835 10282012Morning
Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "A Perfect Heart" 2 Chronicles 25:1-2
2Ch 25:1 Amaziah was twenty and
five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2Ch 25:2 And he did that which
was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
(Perfect = H8003 שׁלם
shâlêm shaw-lame' From H7999;
complete (literally or figuratively); especially friendly. (shalem
used by mistake for a name.): - full, just, made ready, peaceable, perfect
(-ed), quiet, Shalem [by mistake for a name], whole.)
It’s
not uncommon to find someone who will do right. The unique quality that is
found only in true believers is doing right with a perfect heart. To live right
brings with it many side affects: admiration = when you do what is right
you will thought of by others as being a good or holy man. but just doing good
does not make you good in God’s sight (There is none good no not one) Mark
10:18 Self-righteous attitude
= when our focus rests on our good deeds then we take the credit for our own
goodness. Judgmental = we then measure goodness as compared to the deeds
of those around us and therefore we judge them as not good who serve less than
we do.
God
points out something in Amaziah that only he could know. His life appeared to
be right but his heart (which only God can see) was not right. A perfect heart
means whole-heartedly, without any reservation, peaceably. There is a quietness
in the heart of a true believer. When a true believer serves the Lord in deed
you get the impression that it brings them great pleasure to do so (especially
friendly).
Today, some are like Amaziah. Going through the motions
and giving all they can but their heart. But all that God wants is your heart.
You may or may not be able to spot these individuals by observation but rest
well assured that not one slips by God for He looks not upon the outside but
upon the heart of a man.
What about you? Are you
holding something back from God but covering it up for appearances sake? 1st
commandment is to Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. Nothing
held back. 2nd commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself.
Are you serving God with a
perfect heart? What would He say?
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