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A Dramatically fallen world

Sermon #2 in Series on the Spiritual Battle in the Christian life. A Dramatically fallen world. Holy Flesh Movement. A.F Ballenger. Holy Flesh Movement.

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A Dramatically fallen world

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  1. Sermon #2 in Series on the Spiritual Battle in the Christian life. A Dramatically fallen world

  2. Holy Flesh Movement A.F Ballenger

  3. Holy Flesh Movement • The holy flesh adherents maintained that from the moment of that experience, they would no longer be inwardly tempted to sin. Thus any thought, feeling, idea, or inclination to any behavior that came from within them was said to be holy and good…

  4. Holy Flesh Movement • It was believed that one would then experience the total freedom of being able to do whatever one felt like doing because the nature was that of Christ’s and He never felt like doing anything wrong! – KameronDevasher; Adventist Review, Sept. 9, 2010.

  5. The Broken Human Heart • Monasteries in the Middle Ages… • Holy Flesh Movement in the 1800’s… • Churches that claim sinlessness…

  6. The Heart Controls All Else • Matthew 5:8 – “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” • Jeremiah 17:9 - “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?”

  7. The Heart Controls All Else • Matthew 13:15 – “For this people’s heart has become calloused; • they hardly hear with their ears, • and they have closed their eyes. • Otherwise they might see with their eyes, • hear with their ears, • understand with their hearts • and turn, and I would heal them”

  8. The Heart Controls All Else • Matthew 12:34-35 – “ You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. 35 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.”

  9. The Heart Controls All Else

  10. Heart Attack

  11. Heart Attack • Matthew 13:18 - “Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: 19 When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path.”

  12. Heart Attack • Hard Hearted Disciples (Mark 6:52). • Hard Hearted religious leaders (Mark 3:5, 6). • Hard Hearted crowds (John 6:26).

  13. Heart Attack • Open hearted sick woman (Matthew 9:22). • Open hearted religious leaders (John 3). • Open hearted sinners (Mark 2:16). • Open hearted woman (Luke 7:37-38).

  14. Heart Attack

  15. Heart Attack

  16. Heart Attack • Recent Heart Attacks • Young lady asking why her dad had to die… • Young wife disillusioned by marriage… • Family dealing with child’s health issues… • Middle aged couple on the edge of divorce… • Middle aged man looking for work…

  17. Heart Attack

  18. Heart Attack • The enemy knows: • God wants the love of my heart… • My actions spring from my heart… • My heart is broken…

  19. Hearts Fully Alive • Ezekiel 36:26 – “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”

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