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God bless you in the wonderful name of Jesus Christ. My name is Rico Magnelli.

Please turn to Psalm 139. God focuses on the heart of man as he looks on the life of each
individual and he describes himself in many ways and one way he does is in this relationship with
man as the searcher of hearts and the heart of man is the most precious arena within which we
engage.

Yet there are few who know how to care for it, nor understand its true significance on their
own quality of life and its implication throughout eternity. The heart is the seat upon which your
true self sits. It's figuratively like a womb for treasured thoughts to incubate and develop. It's like
the fallowed ground to plant ideas and concepts to be watered. It's the inner part of man's mind
where believing comes from, where the life of God issues from, where trust in God resides. It is
where our ethical and moral compass is calibrated, and it's the place of sanctified peace where we
commune with our Heavenly Father and where his light shines brightest. Opening our heart to God
always, always benefits and produces positive results. Prayer is a practical means by which we can
learn to open our hearts to God and keep it open to Him. Opening your heart to God is the first
step and then as appropriate you share your heart with people. The key in opening our heart to God
is being honest with him, honest. And here in Psalm 139 in verse 23 the psalmist writes, search
me Oh God and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts and see if there be any wicked
way in me and lead me in the way everlasting." Such beautiful honesty before God. The word
wicked here means a way of pain or a way of grief. See, God doesn't want pain for you on the
inside. He doesn't want that grief. He shows us a way out to joy and peace.

And it comes by way of our heart. Look at 1st John chapter 3, please. In 1st John chapter
3, there's another great truth to help set this whole topic apart. In verse 20, For if our heart
condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things and compelling your heart
is to you. God says he's greater. Now you have a choice to make. Is your heart greater than God?
It's going to take humility. As persuasive and compelling as the issues of your heart are that move
you in a certain direction, God says he is greater than our heart. This verse arrested my attention
as a young man moving in the understanding of the Christian community. I had to come to the
point where I understood that even though I had come from perhaps a system that really moved
me to be more condemned, I had to reach beyond my own compelling arguments against myself.
That's right. It takes humility to realize that God is greater than our heart. Look at verse 21.
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not. Then have we confidence toward God.

Confidence is boldness. What we want to have is boldness toward God, fearlessness. He's
given us the access in Christ Jesus, but we don't want to be timid before our Father when he's given
us complete entree, complete access to him directly through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
How tremendous this truth really is. God is greater than our heart. All the things that we've stored
in the vault of our mind, he's even greater than that. That's a comforting thought because God is
all love. You know one great benefit to opening our heart to him is it allows spiritual light to enter
that reveals the truth of the matters that surround us. Often we live in a tunnel. We live in a very,
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very specific and narrow perspective. But when the light comes in, it brings God's perspective into
the situation. And that's what he wants to flood your heart with, the light of his truth. See, what
happens is when the light comes in, our minds become sharper, our thinking becomes clearer.

In contrast, if circumstances become the chief topic of our conversations, our hearts
become dull and heavy. Introducing the light of Christ in our heart releases us from this dullness
and this heaviness of heart or may not change immediately but what will change is our
understanding of the circumstances in light of God's salvation power and the deliverance in Christ.
It says in 1st Samuel 16 - 6 and 7 when the great prophet Samuel was looking for a replacement
at God's direction for the king Saul first king of Israel it says in verse 6 of 1st Samuel 16 and it
came to pass when they were come that he looked on a liab and said surely the Lord's
anointed is before him Samuel looked at this magnificent physical specimen if you will who was
in the family of David one of his brothers and he said surely this is the Lord's anointed.
He looked at him with his eyes. And yet what God responded in verse seven is so
illuminating, so revealing, and is truth that makes us free. But the Lord said unto Samuel, verse
seven, 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." Wow! Tremendous truth! How many times people have molded their lives
and their perspectives and their endeavors based on just what they can see. They limit people. They
look at them and they automatically judge them and put them into a category and we even do it to
ourselves. Yet God doesn't look at the outward. He works from the inside out. Man works on the
outside in. Now there's nothing wrong with dressing ourselves up and cutting our hair or shaving
and putting on makeup and all those wonderful things that people do to help them and you know
to present themselves in the best way. Nothing wrong with that, absolutely, but they in and of
themselves do not determine who you are. Your identity comes from the inside out and man works
on the outside in order to perfect the flesh and then produces works based perspectives. The labors
of man determine these standards. See God's different. God guides from the inside out. It says in
Philippians 1:6, for he who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of
Jesus Christ. He began a good work in you at the new birth. He works from the inside out and his
point of contact is your heart by way of that Spirit of God within you and his word. Look at Luke
6 please. In the Gospel of Luke chapter 6. See we choose between the two. We choose between an
outside in or an inside out perspective. And what's interesting at first, both perfecting the flesh and
the God's guidance from the inside out can look similar, but what separates the two is fruit. What
are people producing with the words and the actions and the motives that they have? We should
be very adept at reading fruit, starting with our own fruit. Be honest. This isn't a game. This is
your life. Be honest with God like Psalm 139. We started out there. Show me if there is a way of
grief or pain that I am unnecessarily following. I've just become so accustomed to it. I think well,
that's just the way it is. It's not the way it is.
God accomplished all for us in Christ Jesus. See, fruit can be traced back to its source, the Spirit
of God or the works of the flesh. Luke chapter 6, here Jesus Christ presents such depth of truth
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here. In verse 45 we read, 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." Wow. Now what I want you to
notice here that both the good man and the evil man both have treasure because those are the valued
thoughts that they have put in their heart. They value them. Some people value bitterness. Some
people value resentment. Some people value these negative things. Vengeance, hate. Yes, they
actually value them. And that's what they put in the vault of their soul. The heart is the vault where
we keep our most treasured thoughts, good or bad, and whatever's in your heart, you put it there. I
didn't put it there. And somebody else didn't put it there. They may have been involved in a
situation, but whatever you put in your heart, that's what you put in your heart. You don't have to
accept it.

What other people say or do to you, you can choose what you want in your own heart. Now one
way to assess what we value or what we treasure is the how and the why of our thoughts. The how
and the why of our thoughts. What do I mean by that? Well, in the how category, it's in terms of
how much thought time do we put into something? How much time do we spend rehearsing things
again and again and again and again?
Now again, I'm not talking about you're working on something that's very meticulous and detailed
at work and you need to focus in on those details. Let's say you're a mechanic and you're working
on an automobile and there's lots of intricate details involved in replacing a certain part on that
automobile. It doesn't mean that all of that thought time is going into your heart. No, not necessarily
at all. It's just what you need at the time that you're focusing in on.

I'm talking about what we choose to put into our heart that we rehearse again and again and again.
Also, what we speak, all the thought time and what we speak consistently is eventually making its
way into our heart. That's right. That's why out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth
speaketh.

Whatever you put in there eventually will come out. Now what about the why of those thoughts?
Talked about the how, the why. Well, the why of our thoughts are what is our motivation? For
thinking that, or whatever it is. See the how and the why, they both produce fruit in our lives.
Eventually our motivations will come out. Eventually what we think about most of the time will
come out. Often it's in words, it's where it comes out, and actions that follow. See we want to have
the love of Christ to be our motivation. Look at Matthew 15 please. We want the love of Christ to
be our motivation. Jesus Christ when he came brought such pureness and clarity of thought and
brilliance of light that all the shenanigans that people were doing no matter how intellectual they
were no matter how well positioned they were in the society made no difference he cut right to the
issue and got to the heart of man if you really want to help people you've got to their heart.
Matthew 15, Jesus Christ again bringing us to a point of understanding and clarity. Matthew 15
verse 7 to the religious leaders, the Pharisees, he said, ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy
of you. Hypocrites, they say one thing and do something else. They want you to do something, but
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they'll never do it. It's a hypocrite. This people, verse 8, draweth nigh unto me with their mouth,
talking about drawing close to God and saying all these wonderful things about God and
honor with me with their lips watch this but their heart their heart is far from me that's right
you can't just go by what people say you got to read their fruit stay with them a while hang out
with them in unguarded moments and then you really find out what they're like. Not to be critical
of people, just honest. Watch this. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men. You don't want to put the commandments of men in your heart. It's never
going to bring you the life of God. And he called the multitude and said unto them, hear and
understand. Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out
of the mouth, this defileth a man." If you have nothing good to say, it's better not to say anything.

And you and I watch our confession, what we say, because what we consistently say eventually is
finding its way into our heart. Then came his disciples and said unto him, Oh, knowest thou that
the Pharisees were offended after they heard this saying. People are offended about everything.
That doesn't mean that you actively pursue offending people, no. Or that you're coarse or in the
chorus in your approach socially. No, it doesn't mean that at all. But look, anybody that takes a
stand for God eventually at some point is gonna offend somebody.
Don't worry about it because you stand for God that's right but he answered and said every plant
which my heavenly father hath not planted shall be rooted up let them alone they be blind leaders
of the blind and if the blindly the blind both shall fall into the ditch. Wow, why is that? Because
God inspires within your heart truth. He inspires within your heart a higher road. He inspires within
your heart noble causes. Oh that's what you want to water. You don't want to water the things that
didn't come from the Father. Absolutely not. Look at Proverbs please. Proverbs chapter 4. They're
the blind leading the blind. Have you ever worked with or been around a person that's blind? I
have. Would you ask them for directions? You wouldn't think of it. You think more of assisting
them, helping them, being courteous, being kind, being aware of their situation. Not necessarily
pity, that's not what I mean.
What I mean is being aware of their situation. Well, the blind leading the blind. Why do we follow
that spiritually? We shouldn't. God wants the eyes of our understanding flooded with light, not to
be blind spiritually. Here in Proverbs chapter 4 in verse 23 we read, keep thy what? Heart. Keep
thy heart with all diligence, for out of it cometh the issues of life." Now there's great truth in
this verse. We are to keep or to guard the heart with all diligence. We do it as a sentinel, as a guard,
as a watchman. People pay more attention to the running of their vehicle, their car, or their blender
works, rather than their own heart and yet out of it come at the issues of life God is telling us here
to promise that before that we should guard our heart Keep it don't allow it to be breached Make
very conscious decisions on what you and I put into our heart. Don't just allow anything don't allow
what people say Necessarily to go into your heart when it contradicts what God says.

That's the most important. It says, for out of it are the issues of life. This word issues is very
interesting because in the Greek Old Testament, I want to capture that understanding. It's also
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reflected in the Hebrew, but here in the Greek, exodus, E-X-O-D-U-S, transliterated exodus, where
the second book of the Bible is titled Exodus. It means a way out. It means an exit. It's the way out
of life. It's our way out. It's our exodus from every kind of bondage. It comes through our heart.
It's our exodus. It's our way out of sin consciousness, of defeat, and ultimately of death. It all flows
from heart that's right the English Standard Version says the ESV says from it the heart flows the
springs of life that's a nice way of expressing from the heart flow the springs of life see all that
defeat all that negativity all is all worldly and it has no life in it no life of God in it but it has to
pass through our heart. The Word of God, when we put it into our heart, it gives us life. It's the
way out.
I'll give you an example. Many of you are familiar with Romans chapter 10, verses 9 and 10.
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that
God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved for with a heart man believe it unto
righteousness With the mouth confession is made unto salvation Through the heart we came
from death unto life

That's one of the greatest illustrations of this verse that I know it came through the heart. That's
right All of the things of God the life of God comes through the heart of man. That's why you have
to keep it, guard it with all diligence for out of it are the exits. They're the way out to life from the
bondage, from the sin condemnation, and even as we see in Romans 10: 9 and 10 from death unto
eternal life. It comes through the heart. Look at this chart here. I'm going to show you. On one side
you have guard your heart against and the other side you have treasure for your heart. We want to
guard against worldly habits like using people, having an agenda in order to benefit yourself by
using another human being. It's wrong. On the other side what we should put in our heart is the
love of Christ. That's what we put in our heart. That's the plant that our Heavenly Father had planted
that we should water. What we should guard against in our heart are past sins that keep haunting
us, that keep coming back. Well, what we put in our heart is forgiveness through the accomplished
work of Christ. That's what you put in your heart. That's what you rehearse in the depth of your
soul. How about accusations or worldly judgments which abound everywhere? Well, what do you
put in your heart?

The shield of faith, Ephesians chapter 6, that guards you, that quenches all the fiery darts of the
wicked, the justification through the faith of Jesus Christ, that we've been legally set free from all
sin through Christ that's what you put in your heart what about a sense of inferiority or being
powerless you don't put that in your heart what you put in your heart is being seated at the right
hand of God with Christ you're above all principality and power and might and dominion because
we are with and in Christ. What about injustice? And injustice in the world. Oh, there's plenty of
that. Sure there is. Well, you know what we put in our heart? Judgment. Reckoning. Some of it
happens now, but it will all absolutely happen in the future. There's not one stone that will not be
overturned. There's not one issue that God will not deal with. That's right. That's what you put in
your heart. What about comparison and judging others? This happens often. And because the world
steers us in this direction, it molds us to think this way. People are better or they're worse than us.
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So what do we put into our heart? Mutual respect. This is how the first Christians began their walk
in Christ. Mutual respect. The household of faith. That's right.

What about uncertain future and death? Those can weigh on people. Absolutely true. Sure, they
can. But you know when you put in your heart the return of Christ, where we will either be raised
or changed, depending if we're alive at the time, into eternal glory, new body and rewards. That's
quite a deal. That's quite fantastic.

These are the things that you want to put in your heart. You want to guard against the worldly
habits, the past sins, the accusations and the worldly judgments, the inferiority and the being
powerless, the injustices in the world, the comparison and judging others, the uncertain future and
death. You don't put these in your heart. You might be aware of them, but you don't put them in
your heart. You don't cultivate them because they only lead you to more oppression, depression,
uncertainty, confusion, doubt, worry, fear, all the negatives. Look at Matthew 5, please. This is
the first in a five-part series on the heart and the title of this webinar is A Heart to See God. A
heart to see God. Seeing God is the aim of one with a pure heart. The worldly systems of man
are designed by our adversary to stain the heart of man with fears, hurts, bitterness, hate, lies,
hypocrisy, disappointments, discouragements and so much more. That's the systems. I'm not
talking about nature. Nature is from God. The worldly systems with their false standards and levels
of accusation and judgment. Now we may experience all these things, these negatives, at times in
varying degrees in our life, but not allowing these negatives to stain our heart is what allows us to
see God. That's right. No man has seen God at any time. John 1: 18 says so. What we see is his
involvement, his investment of himself in his handiwork, which includes absolutely nature. Starts
there in many ways. We certainly see it in his people. We see it. Matthew chapter 5 in verse 8.
Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. Wow. Blessed are the pure in heart for they
shall see God. God is spirit. He's not flesh and blood. And therefore he is, what the Bible terms,
invisible. He is not visible to the naked eye. It says so in Colossians 1: 15. 1 Timothy 1: 17.
Hebrews 11: 27. He's not visible. He is invisible. It says in the Word that no man has seen God at
any time.

John 1: 18, I referenced earlier. Also in John 5: 37. 1 John 5: 12. Here Jesus Christ is bringing
up heart for the first time in the Scripture, the canon of the Scripture. And what does he talk about?
The pure heart are those individuals that see God in everything, whether something is good or bad.
Not that God is the cause of bad, not that he's the cause of bad, but he does allow free will. And
eventually it will come back around because he will deal with it in the future. See, seeing God is a
benefit and a necessary component of having a pure heart, unstained from the world. It doesn't
mean that we're not aware of it. It's just not what we put in our heart. In many ways, the Oriental
mind, the Eastern mind, the Bible was written to the Eastern mind, those people that lived in the
East. They attributed everything to God, as expressed often in the Old Testament. Then Jesus Christ
came and he exposed the spiritual adversary, Satan, that was not completely understood till he
came. But in the Eastern mind, everything came back to God. And there's some truth in there that
we can learn from. This word pure in the Greek is the word katharos or katharos. And it means
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pure from everything that would change or corrupt something's nature It's free from any foreign
admixture Your heart can be pure Absolutely, right

Your heart my heart can be pure from any foreign Admixture anything that would corrupt it. That's
right. And when that happens This is what allows us to see God. The word see here in Matthew 5,
8, it's a form of the verb, The word see here in Matthew 5, 8, it's a form of the verb, ora o, the verb
I.

To be continue…