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God can create a new heart


What is the first thing that a doctor does when he has a dangerous case brought to his attention? He goes right to the heart and begins listening. If a man has a good heart, the doctor has hopes for him. But if he has a bad heart there is not much else that can be done. If a man’s heart is going to stop pumping there isn’t very that you can do. It is the same with a man spiritually. In Ezekiel 11:19 we read, "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 I will give them an heart of flesh!"

Now isn’t that wonderful? You can bring a man to God and you say, "Lord, I don’t think there is much you can do, this fellow has a bad heart." I have heard people say, "He is just naturally bad; there is nothing good in that Fellow.” You take a man like that to the Lord and He listens to that man’s heart and shakes His head and says, "He does have a bad heart, there is no doubt about that." But God does not give him up. The Lord of heaven performs a surgical operation. He cuts out that old stony heart, that old heart all callused in sin and he says, "I will tell you what I will do, I will take out that old heart and put a new heart, a heart of flesh." And he can do it. It is just as great a miracle as making Adam in the first place. I will give him a new heart. Then he is a new creature.

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