Father, we thank you this morning or today. Lord, we give you all the glory. Lord, we exalt you for whom you have. We want to thank you for the grace and the privilege you have given us to see another day.
We want to thank you for the way you've been coming to speak to us for time. Lord, we want to thank you for the way you want to address our hearts today. It's sensitive part of our lives. It's sensitive part of our lives.
Thank you for the grace of addressing our heart today. You have come to speak to us, to address the issue, is sensitive issue in our lives, which is our heart. Father, we ask of you that you speak to us. You create in whole us a new heart.
A heart that is ready to draw very near and close to you. A heart that is ready to live all, so follow you. A heart that is ready to be very close to you. A heart that is ready to hear from you, Patan.
Father, we ask of you today. You will create such hearts in us today in Jesus' name. Creating those in new hearts that is ready to draw very, very close to you. A new heart that is not ready to drift away from you.
In the name of Jesus Christ, so shall it be. In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, and in the name of the Holy Ghost. In Jesus' name, we are pregnant. Amen.
Friends, God is set to speak to you today. To address your hearts, it wants to know how far your heart has gone or drifted away from him. How far is your heart from God? Is your heart still closer to God?
Or your heart is far away from him? Are you sure you have not drifted away or you have not removed your heart, far from God? God is coming to check on you today. To check whether your heart is still in touch, whether your heart is still, drawn closer to him or your heart is drifting away.
In Isaiah 29, verse 18, the scripture says, wherefore the Lord said, for as much as these people, drawn near me with their mouths and with their lives do all know me. But have removed their heart far from me. And their fear towards me is taught by the precepts of me. The Bible of Christ will be taken from Martin, chapter 15, verse 7 through 9, and also, Matthew, chapter 15, verse 18 through 20.
Friends, God means a business with you today. God, the Lord himself, said it's that the utter man are drifting away from him. He called them these people. When your heart is far away from good, God will address you as these people.
We know that anyone that is alive give God pleasure. God addresses such people as my people. But in this context now, the Lord said, as much as these people, they are not no more God's people, they are now these people. These people draw near me with their mouths.
Friends, it is possible for you to draw near God with your mouth. It is possible for you to honor God with your lives and your hearts is removed from God. Or you have removed your hearts far from good. Friends, how far is your heart from good?
Is your heart drifting away or your heart is closer to good? Inasmuch as your heart is not in touch. Inasmuch as your heart is not drawn very close to God. Inasmuch as you have removed your heart far from good.
You can never please God. You can go to church or any religious gathering and you are going there to open your mouths in the way with the hope that we worship in and praise in God. You can also do it in a way of using your lives to honor God. But these two, those two things, they are not so important to God than your hearts being glued with God.
When your heart is connected to God, it makes it easy for you to worship God. The hour connects and where now is the hour. When the true worship has, we worship God and Spirit and the truth. The Bible says the Father instead seeks to worship Him.
You do not need to struggle when your heart is connected to God. You do not need to struggle when you are to worship or to praise God or to serve God or to do anything for God when your heart is connected to God. It is when your heart is drifting away that it's very difficult to worship God in the Spirit and in truth. In Matthew chapter 15 verse 7, the Bible says Jesus himself said, J.
Epochrites, well did Isaiah, prophesied of you, saying, these people drawn a night to unto me with their mouths and honor at me with their lives. But their art is far from me. Friends, Jesus himself called these people, Epochrites, whatsoever that his art is far away or drifting away from God is an Epochrites. They can come to the public gathering and to all outside with their mouths as if they were worshiping God.
They can honor God with their lives, but everything is footer. It is not coming from your art that is connected to God. And when your art is not connected with God, everything you have done is in vain. Jesus said in Matthew chapter 15 verse 9, what in vain they will do worship me.
Even though they were worshiping God, even though their lives are honoring God, but Jesus called all these vanity. Because their art is not connected with God. The Bible says in Matthew chapter 15 verse 9, they were teaching for doctrines, the commandment of men. Friends, friends, what kind of teaching are you listening to?
What kind of teaching are you giving men? Is it the doctrines of the commandment of men or the commandment of God? Is it what God is saying in part time? Or the commandment of men?
Friends, the commandment of men says, the commandment of worship is done before eating. If you don't wash your hands before eating, you have sinned. Friends, even though it is very important for you to wash your hands before eating, but this is not what we defile you. What defiles you are things that comes from your mouths.
Jesus said in Matthew chapter 15 from verse 18. Jesus said, let me read from verse 17, do not hear yet understand that those who ever entered maintain a mouth quite into the belly and is cast out into the drugs. But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the head, and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evodots.
Friends, a heart that is not connected with God, we definitely come from the day to proceed with evodots. A heart that is not in tune with God, we bring forth evodots. I wanted to check your life today. If you are evodotot within you, it is a signa that your heart is drifting away from God.
If you are thinking of killing someone somewhere, it is a signa that your heart is drifting away from God. If you are evodotot within you, or you are even planning to commit adultery, it's a signa that your heart is drifting away from God. If you are contemplating or you are planning or you are already donating by forticating, it is a signa to you that your heart is drifting away from God. If you are engaging in theft, still from me, still from your boss, still from people around you, your art is drifting away from God.
If you are there, you are engaging in false witnesses. What people did not say, you manipulate it and you say it is a signal that your art is far away from God. Blasphemis, in other words, are these things, they are the ones that defile a man. A man is defiled, when his art is not connected with God.
A man can worship God. A man can work on God with his lips. A man can take the commandment of men. A man can watch his hand with before eating.
A man can do all this things and still his art is far away from God. Friends, your art is very, very important to go. In Matthew 22, verse 27, Jesus declared, love the Lord with all your acts and with all your soul and with all your mind. The first commandment says, the first, oh, power it is says, not the Lord with all your hearts.
And also, he is even the first commandment, not the Lord God, not your God. That is the first commandment. If you love the Lord your God, you will find it difficult to sing. If you love the Lord your God with your hearts, you will find it difficult to sing against God.
But if your art is not connected to God, if you don't love God with all of your hearts, if you don't draw near to God with your heart, it is very easy for you to be drifting away. Because God is speaking to you today once again, how far is your art from God? So if your heart is far away from God is the God is calling upon you to come back to him. Remember the item which you are following and repeats.
Go back to God. Ask God the way it started. He will tell you. Ask Him where you started from.
Ask Him the rest of which your heart is drawn away. And ask Him for the grace to bring you back to Him, to bring you bring your heart back to Him. Your heart is thinking on what leadings. It is very, very, very, very possible that your heart will be dropped drifting away from God.
Friends, set your art very well. Set your life very well. Whether your heart is still connected with God or not. I pray in the name of Jesus, the Lord will renew your mind.
The Lord will renew your mind. The Lord will renew your heart. The Lord will create in you a new heart. The act that is ready to draw very close and near to God.
In the name of Jesus Christ. God bless you in Jesus' name. Amen. And I pray in the name of Jesus Christ.