A Perfect Heart – Part 2 Series

As the Lord says, if you want to live upright before me and walk with a perfect heart, then you have to look at yourself. Look at your heart and say, “Lord, take away everything that is not perfect, take away everything that is displeasing in Your sight and Lord remove all the high places from my life. I will remove it.” God is not going to turn you around and God is not just going to open your heart and take away lying, throw away stealing and God is not going to do the cleaning work for you. We have to clean, we have to cleanse our temple, we have to do it. It’s our job. And that is the reason why we see in the New Testament that Jesus Christ when He went to the temple when He saw the money-changers sitting there, what He did was, He took a whip and He whipped everything that was there basically and He overturned the table and the money was scattered all over the place. Do you know why? Because nobody did that and He did it. He had to do that because nobody did it, nobody had the zeal that Jesus had and so He had to do that. He didn’t say “Oh, My Father will cleanse this temple and I will just wait” No!

So the same way, in our heart, our body which is the temple of the Holy Spirit, in our heart, we have to look at our heart in God's presence and say, “Lord, as You cleanse me, I will cleanse my temple.” And look at the motives, many times why you do certain things? What is the reason behind why you are doing what you are doing? May the Spirit of the Lord speak to you and may He examine your motives. If Jesus is standing in front of you and your heart is an open book. He is standing. But if you can just see it, will you do things the way you are doing? We can be tithing, we can be going to church regularly, we can be going to bible studies, we can be going to fasting prayer, we can be taking Sunday school, we can be taking youth meeting, we can be preaching, we can be doing all kinds of things. Those are the right actions. But is your heart perfect toward the Lord? May the Lord speak to us. May that question ring in our ears, and in our hearts and in our minds throughout this week, “Is my heart perfect toward the living God?” I can have the right actions but my heart may not be 100 % loyal to the Lord.

When there is a divided allegiance, we are bound to fall somewhere down the road; we will fall. So we have to make sure that our allegiance is 100% to the Almighty God and to Him alone we will bow and not to anything else. Not to fame, not to vainglory, not to vanity. And we can say, I can excuse these things, certain things I can excuse - “Ah that’s no big deal.” But those are the things that the Father in Heaven will look at and say “These are your high places. Remove them from your life”. And when we remove them from our lives we will experience true freedom. Up until then, we will never, we will never experience that because we are still bound by certain things that we have allowed ourselves to be bound to. So let’s give ourselves 100% percent to the Lord, 100% percent, and say, “Lord, I am all yours. All to Jesus I surrender. All to him I freely give.” The reason why I freely give everything is that I cannot hold anything. And if I have anything, that's not going to profit me because He is the one Who Is Everything. And a lot of times I think to myself, “He is God, who are we to give ourselves to Him and Him even taking us.” He is the Almighty God and He is such a Holy God and He is so great. And yet He says, “Come to me and I will take you. Give yourself to me 100% and I will take you”. Isn't that a privilege for us to give ourselves 100% percent to the King of kings and the Lord of lords?

So let’s look at it from an honest heart, an honest heart like we saw several weeks back, is good ground. An honest heart is a good ground or the good ground is the honest heart that will bear 100 fold fruit. So that honest heart, that good ground will be a ground that will be perfect toward the Lord. Their heart will be perfect toward the Lord. That means when something is not right, their heart will say, “There is something wrong about this, even if I do not know whether it is fully right or not, I am not going to go that side.” But a heart that is not perfect towards the Lord, a heart that is not loyal to the Lord what will happen is, it’s going to look at the same thing and it’s going to say, “I don’t know if this is right or wrong, so I am going to go with it.” That’s the difference. A perfect heart will say, “If I am not sure that if this is pleasing to the Lord, then I will not do it.” But a heart that is not loyal to the Lord will say, “I do not know if this is displeasing to the Lord, so I will go ahead and do it”. So it will look for excuses. So we have to see, “Lord, if I have the slightest doubt, like Apostle Paul says, “whatsoever is not of faith is sin”. So if we know something is not right, and if we do not know that something is not right, but if we have an uncomfortable feeling, which is given to our hearts by the Holy Spirit; when we have that discomfort, a perfect heart will say, “I am not going that way, even if it will cost me, I am not going to go that way”. So may the Spirit of the Lord speak to us tonight and may our hearts be perfect, not just our actions but our hearts be perfect to the Living God.