Establishing The Heart

How Do We Establish the Heart?

Hebrews 13:8-9 states, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day and for ever. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein."

The heart that is established in the grace of God by Jesus Christ will always be the same, not wavering or being tossed about by winds of doctrines. The established heart will be a profitable heart thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

II Timothy 3:16-17, states, " All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works."

God's covenant with man is a covenant of righteousness and holiness. Man believes in his heart unto righteousness and he acts from his heart unto holiness. This is the established heart.

Romans 6:19 states,...even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. Romans 6:22 states, But now being made free from sin, and become servants of God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life."

This is why the established heart is profitable, the end of it is everlasting life by the which we are also called. Titus 3:7 "That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life."

This is our hope, even eternal life. Holiness shows our faith.

Colossians 1; 22-23 tells us that through the body of Christ's flesh through death we are presented holy and unblameable and unproveable in his sight: if ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel.

The Chastening of The Lord

Hebrews 12;5-11, "My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

The above passage of scripture is powerful. God does not chasten our flesh, He leaves that to earthly fathers. God corrects in spirit that we may live. He corrects us with His word, which according to Jesus is spirit and life. He said My words are spirit and they are life to those that find them. For the word to do us any good, we must act on what we have learned.

Because God loves us he teaches us His way, which we found earlier, is the grace of God, which means that we have found favor in His sight. What is God teaching us? To reverence Him! Why? So He can shed His everlasting mercy upon us. God's mercy is to those that fear and hope in Him. He is doing it all for us, not as earthly fathers which chasten to bring honor to themselves. The greatest thing of all is that we know that we are not bastards but sons and daughters of God.