Stone to Flesh
February 5, 2022

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There are

symptoms that point to damage to your heart.
Heart (kardia)
• The heart is the seat of the spiritual, emotional, and intellectual of a person, from where decisions manifest.
• The heart may have been damaged by internal and external factors, but it is the internal heart that can do to your life and others.

Mark 7:20-23 (ESV) And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Symptoms of Heart Failure
• Anger in your voice
• Jealousy toward others
• Coveting what others have
• “I can’t believe I just did that.”
• “That’s not like me.”
• “I don’t know where that came from.”
We all have been diagnosed with a heart of


Ezekiel 36:26-27 (ESV) And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

God’s cure for our heart of stone is to transplant in us a heart of

God’s cure for our heart of stone is to put the

in our hearts.
Titus 3:4-6 (ESV) But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior…

in Christ to receive your heart of flesh.
2 Corinthians 3:2-3 (ESV) You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

in the Spirit to live in your heart of flesh.