The Heart of the Matter A New Heart: YHVH’s First Work

1. The Heart of the MatterA New Heart: YHVH’s First Work • ’Elohiym always does the first work • This truth and the meaning of all biblical words are revealed in the creation of all living things • All living things function the same way – all living things are interdependent and have an order - ‘Ivriym 4:12

2. The heart of mankind (’adam) is always our Father’s first work • What does a new heart mean? What does ‘ in my heart’ mean • Strange fire of Nadav and Avihu

3. Rules without relationship = rebellion • Relationship without rules = confusion/lawlessness • Righteous behavior is only taught and found in the Torah. The power and ability to be able to perform that righteousness* is only found in God’s grace and mercy. • Imputed righteousness

4. Ya’aqov (James) 1:22-24 “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural (genesis) face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”

5. Ezekiel 36:26 “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.”

6. Ezekiel 11:19-20 “And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.”

7. Mishlei (Proverbs) 4:23 “Keep (natzar) thy heart with all diligence (shamar); for out of it are the issues of life.”

8. Devariym (Deuteronomy) 30:5-8 “And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.”

9. Mizemor (Psalm) 51:10-13 “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew (chad-desh)* a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore (shuv) unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.” *egkainidzo

10. What does ‘in your heart’ or ‘God knows my heart’ mean? Etymology English – heart – chief physical organ of life, will, center of emotion Greek – kardia – the central and primary organ of the blood, source of man’s mental and moral abilities

11. Hebrew – lev from lavav • Hebrew – blood pump, enclosed center, middle or in the midst of • Hirsch – conjoin in a central core • Lamed, bet, bet or that which leads the home or house i.e. seat of authority • Lev/kardia – heart, mind, consent, understanding, wisdom, midst, comfortably • In ancient Greek and Hebrew literature the stomach, the belly and even the throat was sometimes synonymous with the heart

12. But God knows what is in my heart…. • Yes, and it desperately wicked – Yirmeyahu 17:9 • Yes, and this should send chills down your back – we can fake people on the outside but God knows what lies at the core of our being • However, sometimes that new creation needs time to express Himself • At the same time God does know our heart in spite of what other people may think – short discussion of wilderness and exile • Sometimes when someone can’t keep a particular commandment this phrase is used, however, more often, when someone does not WANT to keep a commandment the same words are spoken

13. Modern religious theology In my heart or written in my heart means I do not have to do anything, He already did it. If I do anything i.e. keeping commandments, then I am adding to the finished work of Christ on the cross.

14. Divrei HaYamim Aleph 28:9 “And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart (lev) and with a willing mind (nephesh): for YHVH searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.”

15. Rabbi Yehudah of Stutchin “ The ruach dwells in the heart.”

16. Rabbi Nachman Krochmal ca 19th century a.d.* “The essential subject matter of Aggadah is the focusing and directing of the heart…”

17. Talmud Sanhedrin 106b “The All-Merciful requires only one thing – the heart.”

18. Talmud Baba Metzia 21a “A hypocrite is one who is one thing in the mouth and another in the heart.” “…the head corresponds to the brain and the mouth corresponds to the heart.”

19. Rashi – Ethics of the Fathers “Because everything depends upon the heart.”

20. Mattityahu 22:37 “Yeshua‘ said unto him, Thou shalt love YHVH thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.”

21. 1st use – Bere’shiyt 6:5 “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heartwas only evil continually.”

22. 2 Corinthians 1:9-10 “But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;”

23. Natural use – 2 Kings 9:24 “And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart (lev), and he sunk down in his chariot.” 2 Samuel 18:14

24. Mizemor (Psalm) 46:2 “Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst (lev) of the sea;”

25. Mishlei ( Proverbs) 19:8 “He that getteth wisdom (lev) loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.” *qoneh-lev – seeks after the condition of the heart

26. Yiremeyahu (Jeremiah) 5:21 “Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding (lev); which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not.”

27. Shemot 28:29-30 “And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually. And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim;* and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.” *heart frequency – binary code

28. Hoshea 2:14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably (lev)* unto her.” *into her heart – New Covenant

29. Mattityahu 12:40 “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

30. ‘Ivriym (Hebrews) 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

31. Mattityahu 5:8 “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”

32. Mattityahu 5:28 “But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”

33. Luke 6:45 “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.”

34. 1 Samuel 16:7 “But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.”

35. Bere’shiyt (Genesis) 27:41 “And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.”

36. Mishlei (Proverbs) 3:1 “My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep* my commandments:” *if it is rote mimicking this is an abomination – Yeshayahu 1:1-18

37. Devariym 6:4-7 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”

38. Yesha’yahu 29:13 “Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:”

39. Mattityahu (Matthew) 15:8 “This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.”

40. Devariym (Deuteronomy) 10:15-16 “Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.”

41. Our Father always does the first work What do I mean? • He is the Father – ‘ab – source of – head of house Abraham/Abigail –Genesis 4 • He is revealed in the masc -zakar/neqevah • He takes upon flesh in the masc – He comes to us • He is the cornerstone/foundation • He is the Seed • He is the Word/information – bara’ – Yochanan 1:1 – information comes before matter

42. Yochanan (John) 3:3-5 “Yeshua’ answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Yeshua’ answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of waterand of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”

43. Yochanan (John) 3:6-8 “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.”

44. Yochanan (John) 3:9-12 “Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Yeshua’ answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?”

45. Shemot (Exodus) 25:1-2 “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.” *began in their heart so they could build it

46. Shemot 25:9-10 “According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it. And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.” *first thing seen is the mercy seat

47. Bere’shiyt (Genesis) - The Natural Creation • 1:4 - And God saw the light, that it was good • 1:10 – earth, water and the seas were good • 1:12 – herbs, grass and fruit trees were good • 1:18 – lights to rule the day and night were good • 1:21 – sea creatures and fowl of heaven were good • 1:25 – beast and cattle were good • 1:31 - And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good – tov me’od – life/fullness of/reproduce *cp tree of knowledge of good (tov) and evil (ra’/rasha’

48. ‘Ivriym (Hebrews) 13:9Grace is good “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.” *threshold (miphetan/aero

49. Romans 7:12The law is good “Wherefore the lawis holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.”

50. Yochanan 1:17There is an order “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Messiah Yeshua‘.”