Apostacy of the Heart

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Apostasy starts in the heart, being seduced by what we hear / Mk 4:24 and how we hear / Lk 8:18. Satan has a plan to seduce and sift every believer before Christ comes for His church and body in the rapture / Lk 22:31, 1Jn 2:21-26 by getting their heart to depart from the living God through words. For some it will be through divers and strange doctrines / Heb 13:9, for others it will be through signs and miracles / Mk 13:22, but for most it will be through words that do not speak of the cross of Christ, the blood of the lamb and the resurrection of Jesus Christ / Rev 12:11. If Satan can get believers occupied with words and others things that do not testify of the grace of God that comes through Jesus Christ and Him crucified, then he can get the heart to depart from the living God / Heb 3:12 and the power of His resurrection. He can not take salvation or the righteousness of God from them, but he can do the next best thing and lead their heart away from it, so that they are ineffective as a believer with their words / Jn 17:20, Jn 12:47,48, Rom 10:14.

The love of God that the Holy Spirit sheds abroad in our hearts reveals the love of the Father that sent His Son to shed His blood, pay for sin through death and be resurrected on the third day. Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins and without the resurrection from the dead there is no justification for the believer / Rom 3:25, Heb 9:22, Rom 4:25. If we give place to words and other things that take us away from the blood of Christ, that is revealed in His death, burial and resurrection, our hearts will depart into idolatry / 1Cor 10:14, a form of worship that denies the power of the cross and keeps us from knowing Christ and power of His resurrection / Phil 3:10. This form of idolatry spiritualizes every aspect of the cross and will eventually cause the believer's heart to forget that it was purged from their old sins / 2Pt 1:1-9.
 
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Christ spoke to the angel of the church at Laodecia and said that they were professing to be wise, but were fools, thought they were rich, but were poor and naked and pittable, that they had need of nothing, when in reality they needed to come to Him and by faith and truth. He said that He would spit them out of His mouth, that they were worse than unbelievers, because they were only lukewarm. An abomination in His sight. And His answer to those who would be His people in this day? "Behold, I stand at the door and knock, and if anyone hears My voice and opens his door, I will come into to him, and will dine with him, and he with Me." John wrote about us and said that we are what we are because we "know Him who was from the beginning." If we would please God, we would seek to know Him, personally, in truth and in fact. We would seek and deep and abiding relationship with Him above all things! For we are His people, and He is our God. Not a God who is far off, on a mountain which cannot be touched, much less climbed, but rather right here in our hearts, living and breathing in us, our very life.

In His peace,
 
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